Hi All
Is there a way to set a distance between your reference and reference text? I am ussing Zortero as reference manager. and i have currently made som small modification to the style i use
I have a challenge that I have references of different lengths, and I would like to be able to create a setup that ensures that all reference text is neat and straight all the way down in the reference list.
The CSL i am ussing is this one Apalike that are a convertet from bibtex to csl
What i have:
What do you mean by “neat” and “straight all the way down”?
Can you show us your code? If it’s already on github, can you post a link. If not, maybe post to a tool like pastebin or create a github gist.
You can’t set the distance, no, but there are two different options – there’s
hanging-indent="true"
which is what you seem to be using now, and there’s
second-field-align="flush"
which has subsequent lines start flush with the second field (you can also work with display, but wouldn’t recommend it.
Hi Denis, i forgot to post what i want. i have done that now
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<style xmlns="http://purl.org/net/xbiblio/csl" class="in-text" version="1.0" demote-non-dropping-particle="never">
<info>
<title>Apalike - COWI</title>
<title-short>apalike</title-short>
<id>http://www.zotero.org/styles/apalike-cowi</id>
<link href="http://www.zotero.org/styles/apalike-cowi" rel="self"/>
<link href="http://owl.english.purdue.edu/owl/resource/560/01/" rel="documentation"/>
<author>
<name>Simon Kornblith</name>
<email>simon@simonster.com</email>
</author>
<contributor>
<name>Bruce D'Arcus</name>
</contributor>
<contributor>
<name>Curtis M. Humphrey</name>
</contributor>
<contributor>
<name>Richard Karnesky</name>
<email>karnesky+zotero@gmail.com</email>
<uri>http://arc.nucapt.northwestern.edu/Richard_Karnesky</uri>
</contributor>
<contributor>
<name>Sebastian Karcher</name>
</contributor>
<contributor>
<name>Mathias Stadsvold</name>
<email>mtsd@cowi.com</email>
<uri>www.cowi.com</uri>
</contributor>
<category citation-format="author-date"/>
<category field="psychology"/>
<category field="generic-base"/>
<summary>Denne version af APALIKE-stilen er ændret og tilpasset af MTSD (COWI), og er baseret på den oprindelige version af Simon Kornblith og andre bidragsydere.</summary>
<updated>2025-09-10T08:45:40+00:00</updated>
<rights license="http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/">This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 License</rights>
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