Q:

Why does \clearpage messes up two-column references?

I have a LaTeX file containing several images and one table to be printed before the "References" Section. I managed to get all figures printed in an appropriate position using the \clearpage command right before the references. However, somehow the command messes up my references and the result is the following references page:

Without \clearpage my references are OK, but the images are printed in an incorrect position. With the \clearpage the abovecited problem happens... any idea of how I can solve this?
This is my reference style:
\clearpage
\bibliographystyle{abbrv}

A:

After some days struggling with LaTeX, I finally managed to get a good-looking solution.
I had to add \usepackage{dblfloatfix} in my preamble

