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Hi i have a a underfull \hbox (badness 10000) error in my bibliography list below but not sure why?

\bibitem{application 1}
K. Conrad
\textit{http://www.math.uconn.edu/$\sim$kconrad/blurbs/gradnumthy/mordelleqn1.pdf} 
(accessed on 09/01/2016).

could anyone help?

moewe
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Francesca Alsina
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    get rid of \textit and $\sim$ and use \url from the url package then latex will be able to break the line at a / in a URL so will be able to justify the text more easily – David Carlisle Jan 26 '16 at 13:18
  • Hi! thanks ive changed it and used the package, it now says badness 3179?? do you have an ideas!

    \bibitem{trace norm web} K. Conrad \url{http://www.math.uconn.edu/~kconrad/blurbs/galoistheory/tracenorm.pdf} (accessed on 22/11/2015).

    \bibitem{application 1} K. Conrad \url{http://www.math.uconn.edu/~kconrad/blurbs/gradnumthy/mordelleqn1.pdf} (accessed on 09/01/2016).

     – Francesca Alsina Jan 26 '16 at 13:44
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    I have re-tagged your question since it does not really seem to be about biblatex, but rather a more manual way to create the bibliography. An MWE would help us reproduce the actual error. Note that line breaking of URLs is always a very delicate matter (maybe even more so in the bibliography). – moewe Jan 26 '16 at 15:22
  • URLs in the bibliography are often quite difficult to handle. For some hints, see e.g. here, here or here. – hbaderts Jan 26 '16 at 15:24

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I always set a bibliography with long URLs ragged right:

\usepackage{ragged2e}
...

{\RaggedRight
 \begin{thebibliography}{...}
 \bibitem{application 1}
    K. Conrad
    \url{http://www.math.uconn.edu/~kconrad/blurbs/gradnumthy/mordelleqn1.pdf} (accessed on 09/01/2016).
 ...
 \end{thebibliography}%
}

Or for a bib created by bibtex

\usepackage{ragged2e}
...

{\RaggedRight
 \bibliographystyle{...}
 \bibliography{...}%
}

or for biber

\usepackage{ragged2e}
\usepackage{biblatex}
\addbibresource{...}
...

{\RaggedRight
 \printbibliography[...]%
}