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How to decrease the font size of 'References'? I want to make it 11pt fontsize.

\documentclass[a4paper,oneside,11pt]{article}
\usepackage[left=2.5cm,right=2.5cm,top=4cm,bottom=2.7cm]{geometry}
\usepackage{amsmath}
\usepackage{amssymb}
\usepackage{amsfonts}
\usepackage{enumitem}
\usepackage{array}
\usepackage{mathptmx}
\usepackage{hyperref}
\usepackage{changepage}
\tolerance=1
\emergencystretch=\maxdimen
\hyphenpenalty=10000
\hbadness=10000

\AtBeginDocument{%
    \addtolength\abovedisplayskip{-0.2\baselineskip}%
    \addtolength\belowdisplayskip{-0.2\baselineskip}%
}
\begin{document}
    \allowdisplaybreaks
    \vspace*{79.4pt}
    \begingroup
    \fontsize{17}{0.7cm}\selectfont
    \begin{flushleft}
        \textbf{\uppercase{TITLE OF ARTICLE

        }}
    \end{flushleft}
\endgroup
\vspace{28.35pt}
\begin{adjustwidth}{25mm}{0mm}
\textbf{Name}\vspace{5.65pt}\
Institution and adresses\
\
email \vspace{12pt}\
\begingroup
\fontsize{10}{12}\selectfont
\textbf{Abstract.} 
In this paper, we introduce about blablabla. 
\vspace{6pt}\
\textbf{Keywords}: blablabla\vspace{10mm}
\endgroup
\end{adjustwidth}


\begin{thebibliography}{999}


\bibitem{yesyesyes}
Author,
\emph{Book title}.
publisher, city,
2nd Edition,
2020.




\end{thebibliography}
\end{document}

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Ongky Denny Wijaya
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  • Off-topic: Does the real bibliography of your document contain more than 99 entries? If it does not, you may want to change \begin{thebibliography}{999} to either \begin{thebibliography}{99} (if there are between 10 and 99 entries) or \begin{thebibliography}{9} (if there are fewer than 10 entries). – Mico Oct 29 '20 at 05:45
  • @Mico, there are fewer than 10 entries. – Ongky Denny Wijaya Oct 29 '20 at 06:49
  • @MadyYuvi, I mean the title of "reference". – Ongky Denny Wijaya Oct 29 '20 at 06:50
  • Why do you want to do that? It is a division heading, just as \section is and I believe that it should have the same impact on the reader as an unnumbered section. – Peter Wilson Oct 29 '20 at 18:21

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You wrote,

How to decrease the font size of 'References'? I want to make it 11pt fontsize.

I guess you want 11pt because that's the main document font size, right? If so, you may achieve your formatting goal by loading the etoolbox package and running the instruction

\patchcmd{\thebibliography}{\section*}{\subsubsection*}{}{}

in the preamble.

By default, the header of the bibliography section in the article document class employs the instruction \section*, which creates an unnumbered section-level header which, in turn, employs the \Large relative font size. The command shown above tells LaTeX to use the \subsubsection* command instead, which will employ the \normalsize relative font size which, as you may have guessed by now, works out to be 11pt for the document at hand.

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\documentclass[a4paper,oneside,11pt]{article}
\usepackage[hmargin=2.5cm,top=4cm,bottom=2.7cm]{geometry}
\usepackage{amsmath,amssymb}
%%\usepackage{amsfonts} 'amsfonts' is loaded by 'amssymb'
\usepackage{enumitem}
\usepackage{array}
%%\usepackage{mathptmx} 
\usepackage{newtxtext,newtxmath}
\usepackage{changepage}
\usepackage{hyperref}

%% new:
\usepackage{etoolbox}
\patchcmd{\thebibliography}{\section}{\subsubsection}{}{}


\begin{document}


\section{References}        % use "\Large"
\subsection{References}     % use "\large"
\subsubsection*{References}  % use "\normalsize"
\textbf{References} % <-- use "\normalize" by assumption
\bigskip\hrule


\begin{thebibliography}{9}


\bibitem{yyy} A. Author, \emph{Book Title}. Publisher, City, 2nd ed., 2020.


\end{thebibliography}
\end{document}
Mico
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