Need Help Reducing Horizontal Distance/Spacing between Author & Year in citations

Paul A. Rubin parubin73 at gmail.com
Thu Oct 21 21:07:18 UTC 2021


On 10/21/21 4:29 PM, Hisham Yacob wrote:
>
> Hi everyone,
>
> How do I go about compressing the horizontal spacing (highlighted in 
> yellow, in case it's unclear what I'm trying to ask here) between 
> author and year, both in individual references and grouped references 
> like in the third line.
>
> The spacing between Adam and (2020) seems like there's double spacing, 
> instead of a single space. Also, when referencing multiple papers, I 
> want the comma to hug the name. i.e. I want it to be:
>
> NAME, YEAR instead of
>
> NAME , YEAR which is what it's doing right now.
>
> I tried tweaking the preamble and options but I can't seem to get it 
> to work. I'm using Style format "Natbib(BibTeX)", variant 
> "Author-year" and Biblio style "plainnat"
>
> I hope I’ve been sufficient clear with my question.
>
> Thanks!
>
> Regards,
>
> Hisham
>
>
Can you post a minimal example (LyX file plus .bib file if you are using 
an external bibliographic database)? That would help us suss out what is 
going on.

Paul

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