I am using BibTeX. I would like to start numbering of the bibliography at a later number than one. I could redefine \thebibliography in the preamble (an often cited 'solution'). A minimal example (bla.tex):
\documentclass{article}
\let\oldthebibliography=\thebibliography
\let\oldendthebibliography=\endthebibliography
\renewenvironment{thebibliography}[1]{%
\oldthebibliography{#1}%
\setcounter{enumiv}{77}%
}{\oldendthebibliography}
\begin{document}
This is a test. Some newer thing
about a canonical quantum gravity approach\cite{rovelli2004}.
\bibliographystyle{plain}
\bibliography{biblio-physics}
\end{document}
The bibliography file, biblio-physics.bib, only contains one entry:
@BOOK{rovelli2004,
author = {Rovelli, Carlo},
citeulike-article-id = {469595},
howpublished = {Hardcover},
isbn = {0521837332},
keywords = {quantum\_gravity},
month = {November},
posted-at = {2007-05-06 15:26:19},
priority = {3},
publisher = {Cambridge University Press},
address = {Cambridge},
title = {Quantum Gravity},
url = {http://www.amazon.ca/exec/obidos/redirect?tag=citeulike09-20\&path=ASIN/0521837332},
year = {2004}
}
This should start numbering at 78, but, using a minimal example with TeX Live 2012, I get an error from pdflatex:
marco@gluon test $ ls
biblio-physics.bib bla.tex
marco@gluon test $ pdflatex bla
This is pdfTeX, Version 3.1415926-2.4-1.40.13 (TeX Live 2012/Debian)
restricted \write18 enabled.
entering extended mode
(./bla.tex
LaTeX2e <2011/06/27>
Babel <v3.8m> and hyphenation patterns for english, dumylang, nohyphenation, du
tch, nynorsk, bokmal, indonesian, esperanto, coptic, welsh, irish, interlingua,
serbian, serbianc, slovenian, friulan, romansh, estonian, romanian, armenian,
uppersorbian, turkish, afrikaans, icelandic, kurmanji, loaded.
(/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/tex/latex/base/article.cls
Document Class: article 2007/10/19 v1.4h Standard LaTeX document class
(/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/tex/latex/base/size10.clo))
No file bla.aux.
LaTeX Warning: Citation `wald1984' on page 1 undefined on input line 10.
LaTeX Warning: Citation `rovelli2004' on page 1 undefined on input line 11.
No file bla.bbl.
[1{/var/lib/texmf/fonts/map/pdftex/updmap/pdftex.map}] (./bla.aux)
LaTeX Warning: There were undefined references.
)</usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/fonts/type1/public/amsfonts/cm/cmbx10.pfb></us
r/share/texlive/texmf-dist/fonts/type1/public/amsfonts/cm/cmr10.pfb>
Output written on bla.pdf (1 page, 24290 bytes).
Transcript written on bla.log.
marco@gluon test $ bibtex bla
This is BibTeX, Version 0.99d (TeX Live 2012/Debian)
The top-level auxiliary file: bla.aux
The style file: plain.bst
Database file #1: biblio-physics.bib
marco@gluon test $ pdflatex bla
This is pdfTeX, Version 3.1415926-2.4-1.40.13 (TeX Live 2012/Debian)
restricted \write18 enabled.
entering extended mode
(./bla.tex
LaTeX2e <2011/06/27>
Babel <v3.8m> and hyphenation patterns for english, dumylang, nohyphenation, du
tch, nynorsk, bokmal, indonesian, esperanto, coptic, welsh, irish, interlingua,
serbian, serbianc, slovenian, friulan, romansh, estonian, romanian, armenian,
uppersorbian, turkish, afrikaans, icelandic, kurmanji, loaded.
(/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/tex/latex/base/article.cls
Document Class: article 2007/10/19 v1.4h Standard LaTeX document class
(/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/tex/latex/base/size10.clo)) (./bla.aux)
LaTeX Warning: Citation `wald1984' on page 1 undefined on input line 10.
LaTeX Warning: Citation `rovelli2004' on page 1 undefined on input line 11.
(./bla.bbl
! LaTeX Error: Something's wrong--perhaps a missing \item.
See the LaTeX manual or LaTeX Companion for explanation.
Type H <return> for immediate help.
...
l.3 \bibitem{rovelli2004}
?
Without the redefinition of \thebibliography, the document compiles fine, but of course starting the bibliography items at one.
All files can be found here: http://d-brane.net/pub/StackExchange/TeX_100184/
enumiv? – barbara beeton Feb 27 at 18:42