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%% The LaTeX Companion, 3ed
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%% Example 16-3-23 on page II-497 in "Customizing the bibliography layout".
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%% Copyright (C) 2022 Frank Mittelbach
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%% of this license or (at your option) any later version.
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%% See https://www.latex-project.org/lppl.txt for details.
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\documentclass{tlc3exa}
\pagestyle{empty}
\setcounter{page}{6}
\setlength\textwidth{207.0pt}
% small headings for the example
\makeatletter
\renewcommand\section{\@startsection{section}{1}{\z@}%
                                    {-1.25ex \@plus-1ex \@minus-.2ex}%
                                    {.5ex}%
                                    {\normalfont\normalsize\bfseries}}
\makeatother
%StartShownPreambleCommands
\usepackage{natbib}
\bibliographystyle{abbrvnat}
\renewcommand\bibsection{\section{\refname}}
\renewcommand\bibpreamble{Some material
     inserted between heading and list.\par}
\renewcommand\bibfont
                 {\footnotesize\raggedright}
\setlength\bibhang{30pt}
\setlength\bibsep{1pt plus 1pt}
%StopShownPreambleCommands

\begin{document}
Entries with multiple authors might be
problematical, e.g., \cite{LGC97} and
\cite{test97} or even \cite{LGC97,test97}.
But then they might not.
\bibliography{tlc,tlc-ex}
\end{document}
