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

[Paul A. Rubin]

On 10/21/21 5:39 PM, Hisham Yacob wrote:
>
> Hi all,
>
> I don’t know why I didn’t think to include the lyx file in the email 
> (since my original post was on the LyX subreddit, which was why I used 
> pictures instead). Anyway, attached is an example lyx file.
>
> Thanks you.
>
> Regards,
>
> Hisham
>
> *From: *Paul A. Rubin <mailto:parubin73 at gmail.com>
> *Sent: *Thursday, 21 October 2021 5:07 pm
> *To: *lyx-users at lists.lyx.org <mailto:lyx-users at lists.lyx.org>
> *Subject: *Re: Need Help Reducing Horizontal Distance/Spacing between 
> Author & Year in citations
>
> 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
>
>
Is the attached file what you want? I just removed the space from the 
label field of each bibliography entry (but left it in the key field).

Paul

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