Missing “References” heading

Question

The word "References" does not appear before the references which I entered in my paper. The packages I am using are:

\documentclass[final,times,1p,leqno,11pt]{elsarticle}
\usepackage[latin1]{inputenc}
\usepackage{enumerate}
\usepackage{amsfonts}
\usepackage{amsmath}
\usepackage{amsthm}
\usepackage{amssymb}
\usepackage{latexsym}
\usepackage{multicol}
\usepackage{verbatim}
\usepackage{amscd}
\usepackage{mathrsfs}
\usepackage[usenames]{color}
\usepackage[all]{xy}

What is the reason of this issue?

Answer 1

The elsarticle class will remove the bibliography heading by declaring

\let\bibsection\relax

if the amsrefs package is not loaded. You can override the class behaviour by adding, e,g.,

\def\bibsection{\section*{References}}

to your document preamble.

\documentclass{elsarticle}

\def\bibsection{\section*{References}}

\begin{document}

\begin{thebibliography}{9}
\bibitem{A01} A bibitem.
\end{thebibliography}

\end{document}