Is there a way to rename (or do away with the name of) the bibliography page that is output using BibTeX? If so, is the name dependent on the bibliographystyle, or is it something inherent within the BibTeX functionality?
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This does not depend on BibTeX, but on the document class. The article class uses the \refname macro (which is defined as References) when typesetting the bibliography heading; the book and report class use \bibname (which is defined as Bibliography). So try to add e.g. the following to your preamble:
\renewcommand{\bibname}{Whatever floats your boat}
EDIT: Special bibliography packages may use a different mechanism.
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3@user19502 If you use
babel, see Danie Els' answer. If that doesn't help, please ask a new question and include a MWE.– lockstepCommented Jul 1, 2013 at 5:09 -
33This works, but only when I add the new definition after \begin{document}.– YodaCommented Jul 27, 2014 at 19:37
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This works for Biber as well, for those few users like me using biber.– MohitCommented May 4, 2018 at 9:17
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Adding to what @Yoda said, I got this to work when I added this command right above \bibliographystyle{} which itself I had right above \bibliography{}– araraCommented Apr 3, 2022 at 18:33
Just be careful if you are using babel to setup a language. The \captions<lang> command overwrites everything. Rather use the following
\documentclass[afrikaans, english,%... Global language selection
]{book}
\usepackage{babel}%.................. Language setup
\addto{\captionsafrikaans}{\renewcommand{\bibname}{Lys van Verwysings}}
\addto{\captionsenglish}{\renewcommand{\bibname}{List of References}}
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4Nice answer! But note that answers should be self-contained and not refer to or relay on other answers (too much). Otherwise it might be confusing for the reader to read: answers with the same amount of votes are displayed in random order and in theory the other answer could be deleted by the author. Commented Mar 4, 2011 at 6:58
Change bibliography heading
You can change the heading of your bibliography by inserting a ERT element (Insert→TeX) right before the bibliography with the following command:
\renewcommand\refname{New References Header}or\renewcommand\bibname{New Bibliography Header}, depending on whether you use an article or a report/book class.
I also tried with \renewcommand\bibname{New Bibliography Header} and it didn't work, but with \renewcommand\refname{New References Header} it did work.
answered Jun 8, 2014 at 20:10
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9Same here, only
\refnameworks (using BibLaTeX though). Commented Oct 9, 2015 at 8:31
Renaming the bibliography depends on whether you are using babel or not. Without babel it is simple
\renewcommand{\bibname}{References}
With babel it depends again on the language option. Assumed that you set english as language option, it will look like
\usepackage[english]{babel}
\addto{\extrasenglish}{%
\renewcommand{\bibname}{References}
}
For BibLaTeX, set the option title of \printbibliography:
\printbibliography[title = {Whatever title you want to make}]
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10Welcome, you might want to mention that this only is valid for package
biblatex. Commented May 5, 2016 at 6:11 -
Does not seem to work for empty titles
title = { }. Do you know how to get that?– mathleteCommented Nov 15, 2019 at 18:27
Renew the \bibsection-command. For example:
\renewcommand{\bibsection}{\subsection*{New title, typeset as un-numbered subsection.}}
(Credits to http://latex.org/forum/viewtopic.php?t=4089, where I found the solution which worked for me.)
