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I am writing a memo style document for my job that has to be formatted in a very specific manner, often without regard to good typesetting practices. I am relatively new to Latex, so I am having some trouble. I want to get this:

Refs: (a) an reference that may be a couple lines long (b) this should be on a new line, with (b) lined up with (a).

Here is what I have so far:

  Refs: 
 \begin{enumerate}[label=(\alph*)]
 \item (a reference to something)
 \nolinebreak 
 \item (another reference)
 \end{enumerate}

But when I compile it as a PDF it comes out like this:

Refs:

(a) blah blah blah

(b) blah blah

So, in summary, I want the first reference to start on the same line as Refs:, I want the references to be aligned to each other, and I dont wat it to skip a line. Like I said, I am pretty new at this, but I couldnt find anything relating to this with a google search. I would appreciate any help. I am using the latest version of Texmaker on an Ubuntu machine, and compiling with pdflatex.

EDIT:

To be clear, after adding the [inline] option, here is what I have now.

Refs:
\begin{enumerate*}[label = (\alph*)]
\item Lucas, G., \& Rubel, R. (Eds.). (2011). Ethics and the Military  
Profession:the Moral Foundations of Leadership (NROTC Third.). 
Boston, \\ 
\item Schenck v. United States, 249 U.S. 47 (1919)
\end{enumerate*}

Which produces this:

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what I want is something like this:

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Sorry, I misunderstood your question in the first place. Here you are:

% arara: pdflatex

\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{enumitem}
\usepackage{blindtext}
\newlength{\auxlength}
\newenvironment{references}
{\settowidth{\auxlength}{Refs:}%
    \begin{description}[leftmargin=\auxlength,labelwidth=0pt,labelsep=0pt]
        \item[\normalfont Refs:]%
        \begin{enumerate}[label=(\alph*),leftmargin=2em,labelsep=.5em]}
        {\end{enumerate}\end{description}}

\begin{document}
\blindtext
\begin{references}
    \item (a reference to something)
    \item (another reference)
\end{references}
\blindtext
\end{document}

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  • Thank you for the response. This is getting me in the right direction I think, but the second reference is left aligning (when I add \\ after the first reference), rather than lining up under (A).
    – christopherbrown0317
    Mar 12, 2015 at 14:11
  • @christopherbrown0317 Why are you linebreaking now? If you want to have everything indented, you should wrap all of this in a description.
    – LaRiFaRi
    Mar 12, 2015 at 14:16
  • I am not really sure what you mean, like I said, I am pretty new to this. I did a line break so that the second item would appear on a new line instead of inline with the first item. I still want the first item on the same line as Ref:, but the second item needs to be lined up with the first.
    – christopherbrown0317
    Mar 12, 2015 at 14:25
  • Perfect, thank you. I am new to the forum, do I need to mark the thread as answered? Thank you again!
    – christopherbrown0317
    Mar 12, 2015 at 14:52

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