Left/right adjusment of labels in amsrefs

Question

I am using the LaTeX package amsrefs for bibliography. The labels in the reference list appear adjusted to the right (of the label column). Is there a way to make them adjusted to the left?

Here is an example of what I do:

\documentclass[12pt]{amsart}
\usepackage[nobysame,abbrev,alphabetic]{amsrefs}
\usepackage{amssymb}
\begin{document}
\cite{JS}
\cite{JST}

\begin{bibdiv}
\begin{biblist}

\bib{JS}{article}{
author={Jones, A.},
author={Smith, B.},
title={A result},
journal={Ann. Math.},
volume={314},
date={2015},
pages={1\ndash1000}
}

\bib{JST}{article}{
author={Jones, A.},
author={Smith, B.},
author={Taylor, C.},
title={Another result},
journal={Ann. Math.},
volume={315},
date={2016},
pages={1000\ndash2000}
}

\end{biblist}
\end{bibdiv}
\end{document}

Welcome to TeX.SX! And thanks for the good MWE! – egreg Apr 03 '15 at 10:36 — egreg, Apr 03 '15 at 10:36

score 4 · Accepted Answer · answered Apr 03 '15 at 10:44

The command responsible for this is \BibLabel; redefining it by uncommenting \hfill will solve the problem, because later the \bib@mklab will do #1\hfil that pushes the label to the left.

\documentclass[12pt]{amsart}
\usepackage[nobysame,abbrev,alphabetic]{amsrefs}
\usepackage{amssymb}

\makeatletter
\renewcommand{\BibLabel}{%
    %\hfill
    \Hy@raisedlink{\hyper@anchorstart{cite.\CurrentBib}\hyper@anchorend}%
    [\thebib]%
}
\makeatother


\begin{document}
\cite{JS}
\cite{JST}

\begin{bibdiv}
\begin{biblist}

\bib{JS}{article}{
author={Jones, A.},
author={Smith, B.},
title={A result},
journal={Ann. Math.},
volume={314},
date={2015},
pages={1\ndash1000}
}

\bib{JST}{article}{
author={Jones, A.},
author={Smith, B.},
author={Taylor, C.},
title={Another result},
journal={Ann. Math.},
volume={315},
date={2016},
pages={1000\ndash2000}
}

\end{biblist}
\end{bibdiv}
\end{document}

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Left/right adjusment of labels in amsrefs

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