hangindent repeated for each paragraph

Question

I'm trying to define a hangindent (I managed that) which is repeated for each new line or each new paragraph or something. Do I really have to repeat that before each entry or is there a way of setting that generally for each line / paragraph in this particular chapter? The idea is that if an entry is longer than a line the later lines should have a hanging indentation.

(And yes, I'm aware that writing the bibliography manually is totally silly but my department is very peculiar about how the bibliography has to look like and I wasted 2 days already trying to get a custom style to work (and failed obviously) so I figured doing it manually would in the end be quicker.. -.-)

thx a lot in advance :)

\chapter{Bibliography}
\addcontentsline{toc}{chapter}{Bibliography}
\label{Bibliography}

\hangindent=\parindent
\hangafter=1

Adams, Ansel. \emph{Die neue Ansel Adams Photobibliothek: Das Negativ}. Ed. Robert Baker. 9th ed. München: Christian Verlag GmbH, 1998.\\
Kiefer, Roland. \emph{Nikon Fotoschule}. Schaffhausen: Verlag Photographie, 1981.

Answer 1

Since you're not going to have lists or whatever in your bibliography, using \leftskip and a negative \parindent seems easier.

Adjust the amount of indentation to your liking.

\documentclass{book}

\makeatletter
\newenvironment{mybibliography}
 {\let\@afterindentfalse\@afterindenttrue % we want \parindent anywhere
  \chapter{\bibname}%
  \setlength{\leftskip}{2em}%
  \setlength{\parindent}{-\leftskip}}
 {}
\makeatother

\begin{document}

\frontmatter

\tableofcontents

\mainmatter

\chapter{Whatever}

text


\backmatter

\begin{mybibliography}

Adams, Ansel. \emph{Die neue Ansel Adams Photobibliothek: Das Negativ}. Ed. Robert Baker. 9th ed. München: Christian Verlag GmbH, 1998.\\
Kiefer, Roland. \emph{Nikon Fotoschule}. Schaffhausen: Verlag Photographie, 1981.

Adams, Ansel. \emph{Die neue Ansel Adams Photobibliothek: Das Negativ}. Ed. Robert Baker. 9th ed. München: Christian Verlag GmbH, 1998.\\
Kiefer, Roland. \emph{Nikon Fotoschule}. Schaffhausen: Verlag Photographie, 1981.

Adams, Ansel. \emph{Die neue Ansel Adams Photobibliothek: Das Negativ}. Ed. Robert Baker. 9th ed. München: Christian Verlag GmbH, 1998.\\
Kiefer, Roland. \emph{Nikon Fotoschule}. Schaffhausen: Verlag Photographie, 1981.

\end{mybibliography}

\end{document}

If you want the hanging indentation to be the same as the normal parindent, just do

\makeatletter
\newenvironment{mybibliography}
 {\let\@afterindentfalse\@afterindenttrue % we want \parindent anywhere
  \chapter{\bibname}%
  \setlength{\leftskip}{\parindent}%
  \setlength{\parindent}{-\leftskip}}
 {}
\makeatother

The normal setting to \parindent as well as the behavior of \if@afterindent will be restored as soon as \end{mybibliography} is executed.

You may want to add also a setting to \parskip, say

\setlength{\parskip}{\medskipamount}

so changing the code into

\makeatletter
\newenvironment{mybibliography}
 {\let\@afterindentfalse\@afterindenttrue % we want \parindent anywhere
  \chapter{\bibname}%
  \setlength{\leftskip}{\parindent}%
  \setlength{\parindent}{-\leftskip}%
\setlength{\parskip}{\medskipamount}}
 {}
\makeatother

These changes would produce

Answer 2

You can use a list for this. E.g.

\documentclass{book}
\usepackage[utf8]{inputenc}
\usepackage{enumitem}
\begin{document}

\begin{itemize}[label=,leftmargin=\parindent,itemindent=-\parindent]
\item Adams, Ansel. \emph{Die neue Ansel Adams Photobibliothek: Das Negativ}. Ed. Robert Baker. 9th ed. München: Christian Verlag GmbH, 1998.\\
Kiefer, Roland. \emph{Nikon Fotoschule}. Schaffhausen: Verlag Photographie, 1981.

\item Adams, Ansel. \emph{Die neue Ansel Adams Photobibliothek: Das Negativ}. Ed. Robert Baker. 9th ed. München: Christian Verlag GmbH, 1998.\\
Kiefer, Roland. \emph{Nikon Fotoschule}. Schaffhausen: Verlag Photographie, 1981.

\end{itemize}
\end{document}

Answer 3

thanks a lot for all the answers :) I found a way to get thebibliography to do what I wanted (which has the additional benefit that I can use \cite more easily than with a simple list). I added the following to the preamble:

\makeatletter
\renewcommand\@biblabel[1]{}
\renewenvironment{thebibliography}[1]
{\section*{\refname}%
    \@mkboth{\MakeUppercase\refname}{\MakeUppercase\refname}%
    \list{\@biblabel{\@arabic\c@enumiv}}%
    {\settowidth\labelwidth{\@biblabel{#1}}%
        \leftmargin\labelwidth
        \advance\leftmargin20pt% change 20 pt according to your needs
        \advance\leftmargin\labelsep
        \setlength\itemindent{-20pt}% change using the inverse of the     length used before
        \@openbib@code
        \usecounter{enumiv}%
        \let\p@enumiv\@empty
        \renewcommand\theenumiv{\@arabic\c@enumiv}}%
    \sloppy
    \clubpenalty4000
    \@clubpenalty \clubpenalty
    \widowpenalty4000%
    \sfcode`\.\@m}
{\def\@noitemerr
    {\@latex@warning{Empty `thebibliography' environment}}%
    \endlist}
\renewcommand\newblock{\hskip .11em\@plus.33em\@minus.07em}
\makeatother

redefinition for thebibliography found here: http://latex-community.org/forum/viewtopic.php?t=9048&f=50