BibTeX, biblatex and biberMy bibliography is going out of right margin, Why? Any help?

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jubairarifctg
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My bibliography is going out of right margin, Why? Any help?

Post by jubairarifctg »

Hi there

I am working on my phd thesis. I am user the following lines to add my bibliography:

\bibliographystyle{apalike}
\bibliography{./bib/Thesis}

Now, it works fine for me but when my reference (~\cite{}) in the thesis body reaches close to the right margin it doesn't break. Rather it continues beyond my right margin.

For example:
K.P.Gummadi et al., 2002 turned out to be the right most words for a line. It should have behaved like this

K.P.Gummadi et al.,
and in the next line
-2002

But instead it continues and prints the whole thing in one line and as it is the right most in that line it goes beyond my right margin. How do I keep these references within my right margin.

Thanks

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olofos
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My bibliography is going out of right margin, Why? Any help?

Post by olofos »

Bibtex puts unbreakable spaces (~) in place where it thinks a linebreak is unsuitable. However, it seems odd that you get one before the year. To see in detail what happens we would need to see an actual bibtex entry where this happens. The best would be if you could could post a complete minimal working example.
jubairarifctg
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My bibliography is going out of right margin, Why? Any help?

Post by jubairarifctg »

Hi there

Thanks for the reply.

My problem is I don't get a break when the writing in PDF reaches the righ margin. I get break with normal writings but if it is any string insite ~\cite{} it contineus. Let me give you more examples:

line 1 as the servers may belong to different administrative domains. There are a few efforts
line 2 [H.Schulzrinne and K.Arabshian, 2002, M.Mintz-Habib et al., 2005, X.Wu and H.Schulzrinne, 2005]
line 3 discussed to build emergency services with location informaiton. On the contrary,

Now these lines are coppied from the PDF file. First and third line are normal text and it breaks at the right margin. But in PDF the second line which consists of all the references inside one ~\cite{} last two refernces goes beyond right margin and almost reaches the border of physical page.

I want the second line to break into 2nd and 3rd line. Any suggestion?
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frabjous
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My bibliography is going out of right margin, Why? Any help?

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olofos has already made it clear, and I agree, that a minimal working example is necessary to diagnose the problem. We are not asking for a fuller description of the problem. Please read the link.
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