Space between words in bibliography

Question

tex code as below.

\documentclass[a4paper,11pt,number]{elsarticle} 
\usepackage{times}%Use Times New Roman Font 
\usepackage[hyphens]{url} %To recognize URLs 
\begin{document} 
\title{Integrated Model for Power Interruption Contracts} 
\author{Lakshmi Palaparambil Dinesh} 
\begingroup %\raggedright 
\bibliography{reference_PowerInterruption} 
%\bibliographystyle{apalike} 
\bibliographystyle{elsarticle-num} 
\endgroup 
\end{document}

I see spaces between words or parts of the url with some white spaces after using hyphens with the url package. How to remove the remaning additional white spaces?

Welcome to TeX.SX! A tip: If you indent lines by 4 spaces, they'll be marked as a code sample. You can also highlight the code and click the "code" button (with "{}" on it). — samcarter_is_at_topanswers.xyz, Oct 19 '16 at 21:49
I tried to introduce linebreaks in your code sample, can you please check if they are at the correct places? — samcarter_is_at_topanswers.xyz, Oct 19 '16 at 21:50
Can you try this http://tex.stackexchange.com/a/49791/36296 answer? — samcarter_is_at_topanswers.xyz, Oct 19 '16 at 21:51
Thanks a lot Sam. The line breaks are at the correct places. I tried to indent the code many times, but it was not working for me. I will try again. — user5241675, Oct 20 '16 at 15:10
Yes, I did right now. The document is looking so much better, although not perfect. I will add another screenshot of the problem. — user5241675, Oct 20 '16 at 15:18
What spaces? Remember that the url font is 'mono spaced', which means that each character, no matter how 'little' is designed to take up the same amount of space. An m is as wide as a .. Compare on separate lines (in a mono spaced font) mmm, .m., m.m, i/1. — jon, Oct 20 '16 at 20:53

score 2 · Answer 1 · answered Oct 26 '17 at 03:21

Because you gave us no bib file I created one for testing.

Please see the following MWE (package filecontents is only used to have bib file and tex code together in one compilable MWE):

\RequirePackage{filecontents}
\begin{filecontents*}{\jobname.bib}
@Book{Goossens,
  author    = {Goossens, Michel and Mittelbach, Frank and 
               Samarin, Alexander},
  title     = {The LaTeX Companion},
  edition   = {1},
  publisher = {Addison-Wesley},
  location  = {Reading, Mass.},
  year      = {1994},
}
@Book{adams,
  title     = {The Restaurant at the End of the Universe},
  author    = {Douglas Adams},
  series    = {The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy},
  publisher = {Pan Macmillan},
  year      = {1980},
}
@article{feynman,
  title     = {Very High-Energy Collisions of Hadrons},
  author    = {Richard P. Feynman},
  journal   = {Phys. Rev. Lett.},
  volume    = {23},
  issue     = {24},
  pages     = {1415--1417},
  year      = {1969},
  month     = {Dec},
  doi       = {10.1103/PhysRevLett.23.1415},
  url       = {http://link.aps.org/doi/10.1103/PhysRevLett.23.1415},
  publisher = {American Physical Society},
}
@article{einstein,
  author  = {Albert Einstein},
  title   = {{Zur Elektrodynamik bewegter K{\"o}rper}. ({German})
             [{On} the electrodynamics of moving bodies]},
  journal = {Annalen der Physik},
  volume  = {322},
  number  = {10},
  pages   = {891--921},
  year    = {1905},
  DOI     = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/andp.19053221004},
}
@Article{Schamb2010,
  Title      = {Properties of the Distant Kuiper Belt: Results from the
                Palomar Distant Solar System Survey},
  Author     = {(Megan E.) Schwamb and (Michael E.) Brown and
                (David L.) Rabinowitz and Darin Ragozzine},
  Journal    = {The Astrophysical Journal},
  Year       = {2010},
  Month      = {September},
  Number     = {2},
  Pages      = {17},
  Volume     = {720},
  Doi        = {10.1088/0004-637X/720/2/1691},
  Timestamp  = {2014.09.21},
  Url        = {http://m.iopscience.iop.org/0004-637X/720/2/1691/pdf/0004-637X\_720\_2\_1691.pdf}
}
\end{filecontents*}


\documentclass[a4paper,11pt,number]{elsarticle} 

\usepackage{showframe}    % to visualise the typing area and margins
\usepackage{times}        % Use Times New Roman Font 
\usepackage[hyphens]{url} % To recognize URLs 
\usepackage{ragged2e}     % command \RaggedRight

\begin{document}

\title{Integrated Model for Power Interruption Contracts} 
\author{Lakshmi Palaparambil Dinesh} 

This is text with \cite{Goossens, einstein} and \cite{adams}.
\nocite{*} % to test all bib entrys

{
%\RaggedRight % <===================================================
\bibliographystyle{elsarticle-num} % apalike
\bibliography{\jobname} 
}

\end{document}

you get the following result:

I marked the resulting white space you do not want with red rules ... The most elegant way I knew to get rid of them is to use package ragged2e, which gives you command \RaggdRight to get left justified text with better hyphenation! Please uncomment \RaggdRight in the MWE (see marking <=======) and recompile.

The result you get is now:

The red arrows marks the layout changings. For me that solution is much more better than the first ...

Space between words in bibliography

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