I have a file of class "article" with bibliography style "nature" Since I want to have the references in the table of contents with a section number, i have set a section with the references inside and now want to hide the automatically set title "References"
As far as I know, \renewcommand{\refname}{} should do the magic, but it doesn't. What am I missing?

natbibpackage changes the definition of the bibliography section. – egreg Mar 16 '12 at 23:25