diff --git a/inst/rmarkdown/templates/posterdown_pdf/resources/template.tex b/inst/rmarkdown/templates/posterdown_pdf/resources/template.tex
index 385887a..34a91dc 100644
--- a/inst/rmarkdown/templates/posterdown_pdf/resources/template.tex
+++ b/inst/rmarkdown/templates/posterdown_pdf/resources/template.tex
@@ -99,6 +99,7 @@
 \renewcommand*{\bibfont}{\$bibliography_font_size$}
 \bibliography{$bibliography$}
 \defbibheading{bibliography}[\bibname]{%
+\setlength\bibitemsep{$bibliography_spacing$\itemsep}
 \section*{#1}%
 \markboth{#1}{#1}}
 \AtBeginDocument{%
diff --git a/inst/rmarkdown/templates/posterdown_pdf/skeleton/skeleton.Rmd b/inst/rmarkdown/templates/posterdown_pdf/skeleton/skeleton.Rmd
index 12ed56c..6147156 100644
--- a/inst/rmarkdown/templates/posterdown_pdf/skeleton/skeleton.Rmd
+++ b/inst/rmarkdown/templates/posterdown_pdf/skeleton/skeleton.Rmd
@@ -9,11 +9,11 @@
 font_size: "30pt" #sets '\normalsize' (sizes of the title and sections headings will adjust based on it, not recommended as memoir has limited options)
 
 # Sizes are standard Latex options (tiny, scriptsize, footnotesize, small, normalsize, large, Large, LARGE, huge and Huge)
-title_font_size: "Huge" # size of the poster title
-author_size: "Large"
-bibliography_font_size: "tiny" # size of the bibliography in latex options ( etc.)
-affiliation_size: "large"
-body_font_size: "normalsize" # size of body text
+title_font_size: "Huge"         # Poster title fontsize
+author_size: "Large"            # Author list font size
+affiliation_size: "large"       # Affiliation font size
+body_font_size: "normalsize"    # Size of the main poster body text
+bibliography_font_size: "tiny"  # size of the bibliography text size (handy for one too many references!)
 
 #----COLOURS----#
 
@@ -42,7 +42,7 @@
 
 #----OTHER----#
 bibliography: MyLibrary # name of the .bib file used for referencing
-
+bibliography_spacing: 0.8 # sets the multiplier for line spacing of bibliography spacing (between 0 and 1)
 output: posterdown::posterdown_pdf
 ---