A lot of leaf shrinking depends on the species. Some will shrink, some won't.
Leaves already grown won't shrink. What I do with elms is take a longish new twig starting to grow that has little leaves close to the main branch and cut it back where the leaves start to be big. After a couple years of this the tree learns to have small leaves only. The parent tree has leaves maybe 3 cm long, and the bonsai elms have leaves maybe 4 mm.
Note that this will take years.