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I would like to know how to remove the "References" title from command \bibliography{}.

If I write:

... text ... \cite{RefAnd2013} ...
\bibliographystyle{IEEEtran}
\bibliography{AnderBib}
... more text ...
\end{document}

Appears "References" title:

... text [1] ...

References

[1] W. Anderson, Environment Modeling with UML, in ... 2010. [Online]. Available: http://dx.doi.org/xxx

... more text ...

But, I need

... text [1] ...

[1] W. Anderson, Environment Modeling with UML, in ... 2010. [Online]. Available: http://dx.doi.org/xxx

... more text ...

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    Which document class are you using?
    – Gonzalo Medina
    Sep 10, 2013 at 18:17

5 Answers 5

Reset to default
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Add these lines to the preamble:

\usepackage{etoolbox}
\patchcmd{\thebibliography}{\section*{\refname}}{}{}{}

A complete example:

\begin{filecontents*}{aaaaabbbbbb.bib}
@misc{test,
title= "The title",
howpublished= "Publisher"
}
\end{filecontents*}
\documentclass{IEEEtran}
\usepackage{etoolbox}
\patchcmd{\thebibliography}{\section*{\refname}}{}{}{}

\begin{document}
\cite{test}
\bibliographystyle{IEEEtran}
\bibliography{aaaaabbbbbb}

\end{document}

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Since IEEEtran.cls automatically adds an entry for the references in the ToC, you might also be interested in suppressing this entry (after all, there's no section for the references); in this case, you will also have to add

\patchcmd{\thebibliography}{\addcontentsline{toc}{section}{\refname}}{}{}{}
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    Somehow doesn't work for me.
    – patapouf_ai
    Jul 11, 2022 at 21:23
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If you don't mind using biblatex instead of bibtex, you could simply use the following: \printbibliography[heading=none].

Dependencies:

  • biblatex
  • biblatex-ieee (for the IEEE bibliography style)

Here's a minimal example:

\documentclass{article}
\usepackage[style=ieee]{biblatex}
\addbibresource{refs.bib}

\begin{document}

\section{Some section}
Some text \cite{KandR}.

\printbibliography[heading=none]

\end{document}

For the sake of completeness, here is the content of the refs.bib file used:

@BOOK
  {KandR,
   AUTHOR    = {Kernighan, Brian W. and Ritchie, Dennis M.},
   TITLE     = {The C Programming Language Second Edition},
   PUBLISHER = {Prentice-Hall, Inc.},
   YEAR      = 1988
  }

After compiling the document with latexmk -bibtex -pdf, the result should look like this:

Result

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  • Give me a example, because this did not work for me.
    – Anderson
    Jul 31, 2015 at 19:12
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    I'm sorry, it seems this option is only available using biblatex instead of bibtex. I will update my answer with this information and a basic usage example.
    – Apteryx
    Aug 2, 2015 at 17:00
  • This doesn't work for me, even with biblatex.
    – patapouf_ai
    Jul 11, 2022 at 21:17
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I think something easier would be \renewcommand\refname{}

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    The problem with this approach is that if \tableofcontents is used, then an odd entry with no title, but page number, is added to the ToC.
    – Gonzalo Medina
    Sep 10, 2013 at 19:01
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    Moreover, space-wise, a section will still be set, perhaps leaving an unwanted (large) vertical gap between text and references.
    – Werner ♦
    Sep 10, 2013 at 19:06
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If you are using the natbib package

\renewcommand{\bibsection}{}

will do the job.

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    This really a useful command.
    – Sorif Hossain
    Dec 17, 2020 at 9:41
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If you are using biblatex:

\defbibheading{bibliography}[\refname]{}
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    \printbibliography[heading=none] as in Apteryx's answer. Would be slightly nicer, I think.
    – moewe
    Aug 8, 2018 at 14:31

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