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\documentclass[twoside, a4paper, 11pt]{article}
\usepackage{natbib}

\begin{document}



\bibliographystyle{apa-good}
\bibliography{bibliography}
\end{document}

How can I make the section header for my references list bolded, underlined, all capitalized, 11 pt and with C6. in front of it? I.e., currently, the section header is: References however I would like it to be:

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EDIT:

\documentclass[twoside, a4paper, 9pt]{article}
\usepackage{natbib}

\renewcommand{\refname}{C6.~REFERENCES}
\makeatletter
\renewcommand\bibsection{%
  \section*{\underline{\refname}\@mkboth{\MakeUppercase{\refname}}{\MakeUppercase{\refname}}}%
}%
\makeatother



\begin{document}

\underline{\textbf{C1. PROJECT TITLE}}

blkah blah

\underline{\textbf{C2. AIMS AND BACKGROUND}}


blah blah blah

\bibliographystyle{apa-good}
\bibliography{bibliography}
\end{document}

The output is:

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The size of references doesn't change when I change the font size to 9pt. I know I should use \section for section titles but there is a reason why I am manually creating section titles. So how can I get the references heading size to be the same as my manually made ones?

user42388
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1 Answers1

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If you are sure that you are using the article document class, just adding the following lines in your preamble should work:

\renewcommand{\refname}{C6.~REFERENCES}
\makeatletter
\renewcommand\bibsection{%
  \section*{{\normalsize\underline{\refname}}\@mkboth{\MakeUppercase{\refname}}{\MakeUppercase{\refname}}}%
}%
\makeatother

MWE

\documentclass[twoside, a4paper, 11pt]{article}

\begin{filecontents*}{bibliography.bib}
@article{reference,
author = {F Author and S Author},
journal = {Journal},
title = {Article Title},
year = {2013},
month = {10},
}
\end{filecontents*}

\usepackage{natbib}

\renewcommand{\refname}{C6.~REFERENCES}
\makeatletter
\renewcommand\bibsection{%
  \section*{{\normalsize\underline{\refname}}\@mkboth{\MakeUppercase{\refname}}{\MakeUppercase{\refname}}}%
}%
\makeatother

\begin{document}

\nocite{*}

\bibliographystyle{apa-good}
\bibliography{bibliography}

\end{document}

Output:

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If you also want to remove the spacing add \vspace*{-.8\baselineskip} in the above definition, so to have

\renewcommand{\refname}{C6.~REFERENCES}
\makeatletter
\renewcommand\bibsection{%
  \section*{{\normalsize\underline{\refname}}\@mkboth{\MakeUppercase{\refname}}{\MakeUppercase{\refname}}}\vspace*{-.8\baselineskip}%
}%
\makeatother

Output:

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karlkoeller
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  • Thanks karlkoeller, I wanted C6 hardcoded. Also is there a way I can control the size of the title header? E.g, what if I wanted it in 20pt? – user42388 Dec 08 '13 at 15:08
  • @user42388 Try adding \Huge (or \huge or \LARGE) before \underline – karlkoeller Dec 08 '13 at 15:10
  • Ok. Thanks for that, I accepted your answer, it was very helpful. Just curious, can I only add things like \small, \huge etc? Are there no commands that allow actual number specification of the text size? – user42388 Dec 08 '13 at 15:16
  • @user42388 Thank you for accepting! Yes, but it is much easier to go with these commands... – karlkoeller Dec 08 '13 at 15:16
  • Could you please show me how I can use a number specification? E.g. some of my other headers are in 11 pt, but the reference title looks slightly larger than 11 pt, any ideas? – user42388 Dec 08 '13 at 15:18
  • @user42388 It's not a good practice, it's better to go with these commands. What header do you refer to? BTW: 11pt is only relative to the main body (\normalsize) – karlkoeller Dec 08 '13 at 15:24
  • I have edited my initial post to explain what I mean, thanks for your kind help. – user42388 Dec 08 '13 at 15:38
  • @user42388 and I have edited the answer. – karlkoeller Dec 08 '13 at 15:42