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I'd like to get rid of the bibliography heading: enter image description here

Please note that I'm using the thebibliography environment.

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Honestly, I do net really understand your question. My guess is GoogleTranslate or similar. Could you, even with insufficient english, try to rephrase your problem? – Thilo Jul 8 '11 at 21:59
Regis, the wording is really confusing. It would be good if you tried to explain better what you want, perhaps with the help of google translate or similar. – Vivi Jul 8 '11 at 21:59
Regis, my guess is that you are trying to remove the bibliography heading. Maybe you could also provide a minimal working example (MWE). OFF: Nice to see another brazilian around. =) – Paulo Cereda Jul 8 '11 at 22:09
Regis, I speak Portuguese. If you explain what you need in a comment I can translate it for you. – Vivi Jul 8 '11 at 22:10
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I would guess locally redefining \section to simply remove it's argument should do it. – Martin Scharrer♦ Jul 8 '11 at 22:29
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The thebibliography environment uses \section*{\refname} (article class and similar classes) or \chapter*{\bibname} (book and report and similar classes) internally. Redefining that macro locally to take and discard two arguments (one for *, one for the actual argument) will remove the headline.

Example:

\documentclass{article}

\begin{document}

\begingroup
\renewcommand{\section}[2]{}%
%\renewcommand{\chapter}[2]{}% for other classes
\begin{thebibliography}{}
\bibitem{ano05}
    A. Nonymous et al.\ 2005
\bibitem{oe04}
    A.N. Other \& S.O.M. Ebody 2004
\end{thebibliography}
\endgroup

\end{document}

This also works for BibTeX's \bibliography{..} because it uses thebibliography internally. For this use:

\begingroup
\renewcommand{\section}[2]{}%
%\renewcommand{\chapter}[2]{}% for other classes
\bibliography{mybibfile}
\endgroup
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Resolved. Thank you @Martin Scharrer! Thanks for @Vivi and other colaborators. – Regis da Silva Jul 8 '11 at 23:35
And @Martin saves the day! We owe you a caipirinha. =P – Paulo Cereda Jul 8 '11 at 23:38
@Paulo: Prost! :-) – Martin Scharrer♦ Jul 8 '11 at 23:40
@Martin to the rescue! – Vivi Jul 8 '11 at 23:45
Building on @Martin's answer, if you want to use a subsection or other header instead change the line \renewcommand{\section}[2]{}% to \renewcommand{\section}[2]{\subsection#1{#2}}% or equivalent. – ihuston Jul 26 '11 at 13:43
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If you use biblatex you can use the bibliography heading none which was added in version 1.5 (see the manual, section 3.5.7). I've got an earlier version so I can't try it but I think the following is an example of this option in use:

\documentclass{article}

\usepackage{biblatex}

\usepackage{filecontents}

\begin{filecontents*}{database.bib}
@book{texbook,
    author  = {Donald E. Knuth},
    title   = {The {{\TeX}book}},
    publisher   = {Addison-Wesley},
    date    = {1984}
    }
\end{filecontents*}

\bibliography{database.bib}

\begin{document}

\cite{texbook}

\printbibliography[heading=none]

\end{document}
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Although this a good answer for the general case, Regis is just using \begin{thebibliography} ... \end{thebibliography} so this won't help, I don't think. – Alan Munn Jul 8 '11 at 23:31
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@Alan: Yes, but it is good to have also an BibLaTeX solution around. Other people will have the same needs but use it instead. – Martin Scharrer♦ Jul 8 '11 at 23:42
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Substitute your code with something like that. 

\bibliographystyle{abntex2-alf}
\renewcommand{\bibname}{}
\bibliography{references.bib}

This worked using abntex2 style.

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Just redefining \bibname to be empty will likely cause incorrect spacing (from the "empty" section) at the start of the bibliography. – lockstep May 9 at 8:54

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