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How to decrease the font size of ‘References’? I want to make it 11pt fontsize.

documentclass[a4paper,oneside,11pt]{article}
usepackage[left=2.5cm,right=2.5cm,top=4cm,bottom=2.7cm]{geometry}
usepackage{amsmath}
usepackage{amssymb}
usepackage{amsfonts}
usepackage{enumitem}
usepackage{array}
usepackage{mathptmx}
usepackage{hyperref}
usepackage{changepage}
tolerance=1
emergencystretch=maxdimen
hyphenpenalty=10000
hbadness=10000

AtBeginDocument{%
    addtolengthabovedisplayskip{-0.2baselineskip}%
    addtolengthbelowdisplayskip{-0.2baselineskip}%
}
begin{document}
    allowdisplaybreaks
    vspace*{79.4pt}
    begingroup
    fontsize{17}{0.7cm}selectfont
    begin{flushleft}
        textbf{uppercase{TITLE OF ARTICLE     
        }}
    end{flushleft}
endgroup
vspace{28.35pt}
begin{adjustwidth}{25mm}{0mm}
textbf{Name}vspace{5.65pt}
Institution and adresses

email vspace{12pt}
begingroup
fontsize{10}{12}selectfont
textbf{Abstract.} 
In this paper, we introduce about blablabla. 
vspace{6pt}
textbf{Keywords}: blablablavspace{10mm}
endgroup
end{adjustwidth}

begin{thebibliography}{999}
    
    bibitem{yesyesyes}
    Author,
    emph{Book title}.
    publisher, city,
    2nd Edition,
    2020.
    
end{thebibliography}
end{document}

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One Answer

You wrote,

How to decrease the font size of 'References'? I want to make it 11pt fontsize.

I guess you want 11pt because that's the main document font size, right? If so, you may achieve your formatting goal by loading the etoolbox package and running the instruction

patchcmd{thebibliography}{section*}{subsubsection*}{}{}

in the preamble.

By default, the header of the bibliography section in the article document class employs the instruction section*, which creates an unnumbered section-level header which, in turn, employs the Large relative font size. The command shown above tells LaTeX to use the subsubsection* command instead, which will employ the normalsize relative font size which, as you may have guessed by now, works out to be 11pt for the document at hand.

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documentclass[a4paper,oneside,11pt]{article}
usepackage[hmargin=2.5cm,top=4cm,bottom=2.7cm]{geometry}
usepackage{amsmath,amssymb}
%%usepackage{amsfonts} 'amsfonts' is loaded by 'amssymb'
usepackage{enumitem}
usepackage{array}
%%usepackage{mathptmx} 
usepackage{newtxtext,newtxmath}
usepackage{changepage}
usepackage{hyperref}

%% new:
usepackage{etoolbox}
patchcmd{thebibliography}{section*}{subsubsection*}{}{}

begin{document}

section*{References}        % use "Large"
subsection*{References}     % use "large"
subsubsection*{References}  % use "normalsize"
textbf{References} % <-- use "normalize" by assumption
bigskiphrule

begin{thebibliography}{9}
    
bibitem{yyy} A. Author, emph{Book Title}. Publisher, City, 2nd ed., 2020.
    
end{thebibliography}
end{document}

Correct answer by Mico on March 3, 2021

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