BibTeX, biblatex and biber ⇒ Additional Space after Colon in References

[wonder]

Dear community members,

Here is one question I could not figure out. I really appreciate if anyone could help me. I go through the forum and could not find a solution.

I am editing the reference list. The following is the standard commands.

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\nocite{*}
\bibliographystyle{plainnat}
\bibliography{D:/economics/dataset}

Here is one example of the generated references.

George J. Borjas. Ethnicity, neighborhoods, and human-capital externalities. American Economic Review, 85(3):365-390, 1995.

Does anyone know how to insert a space between the “:” and page number for each reference.

Many thanks.

[localghost]

Just for information to other users for awareness of possibly already existing solutions. The question has also been posted to {TeX} SX nearly at the same time and already has an accepted answer. Please read what our administrator thinks about that.

A crossposting is always contra-productive. But there is nothing really against it as long as it is mentioned. This means that a direct link has to be added. So other users who want to help are preserved from double efforts and waste of time.

[cgnieder]

I'd like to repeat the answer given by Barbara Beeton on TeX.sx here as well. She suggested to open the file plainnat.bst and look for the functions

• FUNCTION {format.vol.num.pages}
  [*]FUNCTION {format.vol.num.eid}

There one would find the lines

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{ ":\penalty0 " * pages n.dashify * }

and

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{ ":\penalty0 " * eid * }

where \penalty0 could be replaced by a space. The changed file should be saved under a different name, myplainnat.pst, say, and then be used by

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\bibliographystyle{myplainnat}

Regards