Chapter numbers in bibliography

Question

I am compiling my thesis in LaTeX and I am using the chapterbib package to put separate bibliography lists in each chapter. I would like each bibliography to have its own name, indexed by the chapter number (e.g. "References for Chapter #"), but I am not aware of any way to do this, or if it is doable at all. Has anybody tried it before?

Answer 1

In the documentation you can find:

You can control the titling of the final bibliographies by defining

\newcommand\FinalBibTitles
{References for Chapter \thechapter}

This works only if you use the option gather or duplicate. If you use a standard class like report you have to redefine the standard bibliography environment.

Here a suggestion using xpathch:

% arara: pdflatex
% arara: bibtex: { files :[chap1,chap2] }
% arara: pdflatex
% arara: pdflatex
\RequirePackage{filecontents}
\begin{filecontents*}{chap1.tex} 
\chapter{only article}
text \cite{article-minimal}\par
text \cite{article-full}
\bibliographystyle{plain}
\bibliography{xampl} 
\end{filecontents*} 
\begin{filecontents*}{chap2.tex} 
\chapter{only book}
text \cite{book-minimal}\par
text \cite{book-full}
\bibliographystyle{plain} 
\bibliography{xampl} 
\end{filecontents*} 
\documentclass{report}   
\usepackage[duplicate]{chapterbib}     
\usepackage{xpatch}
\xpatchcmd{\thebibliography}{\bibname}{\bibname{} for Chapter \thechapter}%
                        {\typeout{*****thebibliography patched******}}
                        {\typeout{*****thebibliography not patched******}}

\begin{document} 
\tableofcontents                           
\include{chap1} 
\include{chap2} 
\end{document}

The compilation steps are done by arara which is recommended for such projects.

Answer 2

Try

\newcommand\FinalBibTitles {References for Chapter \thechapter} 

See section 8 of the chapterbib package documentation for details.