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I am writing a review in Latex and I'm writing the references directly into the Bibliography section in the main.tex file without using BibTex or bibitems or anything like that. I want to indent all but the first line for each reference. I've tried all the techniques to do this for normal text like using \parindent but it never works on the text directly written in the Bibliography section.

I want it to look like this: enter image description here

This is what I have right now:

\begin{thebibliography}{} \normalsize

Adams, F. C., Batygin, K., Bloch, A. M., & Laughlin, G. (2020). Energy optimization in extrasolar planetary 
systems:The transition from peas-in-a-pod to runaway growth. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society,
493(4), 5520–5531. https://doi.org/10.1093/mnras/staa624\[2mm]


Adams, E. R., Seager, S.,& Elkins-Tanton, L. (2008). Ocean planet or thick atmosphere: On the mass-radius 
relationship for solid exoplanets with massive atmospheres. The Astrophysical Journal, 673, 1160–1164. 
https://doi.org/10.1086/524925\[2mm]


ALMA Partnership, Brogan, C. L., Pérez, L. M., Hunter, T. R., Dent, W. R. F., Hales, A. S., et al. (2015). 
The 2014 ALMA long baseline campaign: First results from high angular resolution observations toward the HL 
Tau region. The Astrophysical Journal Letters, 808(1), L3. https://doi.org/10.1088/2041-8205/808/1/L3\[2mm]

I know this is not very practical and not the proper way but I do not have time to learn how to do it properly. Thank you in advance.

Violet
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    Welcome! Please complete your code so we can compile a small example which reproduces the problem. Why use thebibliography environment at all if you're just typing them all by hand anyway? \bibitem is basically just a tailored version of \item. It would take less than 5 minutes to learn to use it. – cfr Oct 01 '23 at 00:52
  • I know how to use \bibitem to reference in IEEE style which uses numbers, but I am unsure of how to use \bibitem to reference in the Harvard way without numbers on the side – Violet Oct 01 '23 at 01:04
  • I think you would put whatever you want to be the label into the optional argument. I'm not clear what thebibliography environment will do for you otherwise, so if you can't get it to work like that, you might just not use the environment. If it isn't helping with the formatting, it's not really doing anything useful. – cfr Oct 01 '23 at 02:08
  • Don't use \\ to end a line unless you're in tabular or similar. It will fill your log with warnings because TeX won't be able to break the text properly. – cfr Oct 01 '23 at 02:10
  • The hanging package provides functions for typing any sort of "hanging" paragraphs. – henryflower Oct 01 '23 at 09:51

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Something like this?

enter image description here

\documentclass{article}

\usepackage{xurl}
\usepackage[colorlinks,allcolors=blue]{hyperref}


\usepackage[authoryear,round,compress]{natbib}
\bibliographystyle{apalike}


\begin{document}


... \citep{adams-etal:2020,adams-etal:2008,alma-etal:2015}
\begin{thebibliography}{999} 
\normalsize


\bibitem[Adams et al.(2020)]{adams-etal:2020} Adams, F. C., Batygin, K., Bloch, A. M., & Laughlin, G. (2020). 
Energy optimization in extrasolar planetary systems: The transition from peas-in-a-pod to runaway growth. 
\emph{Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society},
\emph{493}(4), 5520--5531. 
\url{https://doi.org/10.1093/mnras/staa624}


\bibitem[Adams et al.(2008)]{adams-etal:2008}Adams, E. R., Seager, S., & Elkins-Tanton, L. (2008). 
Ocean planet or thick atmosphere: On the mass-radius  relationship for solid exoplanets with massive atmospheres. 
\emph{The Astrophysical Journal}, \emph{673}, 1160--1164. 
\url{https://doi.org/10.1086/524925}


\bibitem[ALMA Parternership et al.(2015)]{alma-etal:2015}ALMA Partnership, Brogan, C. L., Pérez, L. M., Hunter, T. R., Dent, W. R. F., Hales, A. S., et al. (2015). 
The 2014 ALMA long baseline campaign: First results from high angular resolution observations toward the HL Tau region. 
\emph{The Astrophysical Journal Letters}, \emph{808}(1), L3. 
\url{https://doi.org/10.1088/2041-8205/808/1/L3}


\end{thebibliography}


\end{document}
Mico
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