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Styling of biblography - change underline to italic (Latex)

I am struggeling with latex biblography styling.

Using the predefined 

\bibliographystyle{plain}

style i get a nice result:

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When adding the following package:

\usepackage {ulem}

I get this result in the biblography:

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How can i remove the underline of the journal and get it italic?

I tried:

\renewcommand{\uline}[1]{\textit{#1}}

and also following, to undefine \uline

\renewcommand\uline[1]{}

But both create a lot of "Missing } inserted.\end{thebibliography}" in the bbl file. Is there a way to revert the \usepackage command or get back the old style?

Solution

  • One of the features of the ulem package is to redefine \emph so that it uses \uline, so (as is presumably already clear to you) that's why you're getting underline in the bibliography, where text was emphasised before.

    The documentation for the ulem package notes that adding the [normalem] option when loading the ulem package means that \uline is defined but \emph isn't redefined. I don't know if that would be an acceptable solution for you – ie, do you in fact want \emph to be underlined throughout the rest of the document?

    Alternatively, if you only want \emph to go back to its original definition for the bibliography, you could try (ulem docs again) giving the command \normalem before loading the bibliography. However, the way that the bibliography is loaded can sometimes make it unexpectedly difficult to fiddle with its formatting (as you've discovered, when trying to redefine \uline).

    If these thoughts don't resolve things, try posting a ‘minimal working example’. You may also be better off looking at, or possibly posting to, the TeX stackexchange.