tiny fonts for IEEEtran not working on biblography

Question

I added \tiny before adding \bibliographystyle. But it is not changing the font size. Any suggestions for reducing the font size of the reference?

\tiny{
\bibliographystyle{IEEEtran}
\bibliography{refs.bib}
}

if you trying to set bibliography to smaller then main (where main is pt.10)text just use \begin{thebibliography}...as i remember it makes it pt.8 or so .... — vveliev, May 20 '13 at 08:30

score 8 · Accepted Answer · answered May 20 '13 at 08:11

That is deliberately prevented. You must understand that the IEEEtran class really works as a sort of 'container' for the contents of your paper and effort has been made to have all the formatting already done, so all the papers in the journal/conference proceeding will look the same. So it's not a good idea to alter the formatting, unless you know, what you're doing. But enough of this sermon, of course there is a way around it. :) You should try to modify the font size in the preamble, like this:

\renewcommand{\bibfont}{\tiny}

hm when I try this I get a \bibfont undefined – Diego Apr 24 '15 at 00:02 — Diego, Apr 24 '15 at 00:02

score 3 · Answer 2 · edited Mar 14 '17 at 13:52

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The following snippet has been "freshly" tested for one of my IEEE papers. :) Add somewhere in the preamble before \begin{document}:

\renewcommand{\IEEEbibitemsep}{0pt plus 0.5pt}
\makeatletter
\IEEEtriggercmd{\reset@font\normalfont\fontsize{7.9pt}{8.40pt}\selectfont}
\makeatother
\IEEEtriggeratref{1}

Here you can play with the spacing between items (first line), and the overall font size of the bibliography (third line). Works for me!

edited Mar 14 '17 at 13:52

Troy

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answered Mar 14 '17 at 13:14

Robert Bücs

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tiny fonts for IEEEtran not working on biblography

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