I'd like to get rid of the bibliography heading:
Please note that I'm using the thebibliography environment.
asked Jul 8, 2011 at 21:39
4 Answers
The thebibliography environment uses \section*{\refname} (article class and similar classes) or \chapter*{\bibname} (book and report and similar classes) internally. Redefining that macro locally to take and discard two arguments (one for *, one for the actual argument) will remove the headline.
Example:
\documentclass{article}
\begin{document}
\begingroup
\renewcommand{\section}[2]{}%
%\renewcommand{\chapter}[2]{}% for other classes
\begin{thebibliography}{}
\bibitem{ano05}
A. Nonymous et al.\ 2005
\bibitem{oe04}
A.N. Other \& S.O.M. Ebody 2004
\end{thebibliography}
\endgroup
\end{document}
This also works for BibTeX's \bibliography{..} because it uses thebibliography internally. For this use:
\begingroup
\renewcommand{\section}[2]{}%
%\renewcommand{\chapter}[2]{}% for other classes
\bibliography{mybibfile}
\endgroup
answered Jul 8, 2011 at 23:30
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1Building on @Martin's answer, if you want to use a subsection or other header instead change the line
\renewcommand{\section}[2]{}%to\renewcommand{\section}[2]{\subsection#1{#2}}%or equivalent.– ihustonJul 26, 2011 at 13:43 -
1This only hides section in text, but not in the table of contents ...– smihaelMar 3, 2014 at 11:56
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Hmm, in my tests with
book, I get with\traceon:\thebibliography #1->\chapter *{\bibname }\@mkboth {\MakeUppercase \bibname }{\ MakeUppercase \bibname }...; and so even if I do\renewcommand{\chapter}[2]{}, some of the "Bibliography" title still leaks (via \MakeUppercase, apparently)? I guess in such a case, it only remains to set\bibnameto empty, as suggested below...– sdaauJun 30, 2014 at 7:15 -
This solution just removes all section titles after the
\renewcommand. What if you have an appendix after the bibliography? Sep 19, 2014 at 16:04 -
This alternative answer to an unofficial duplicate does want I want. Sep 19, 2014 at 16:13
If you use biblatex you can use the bibliography heading none which was added in version 1.5 (see the manual, section 3.5.7). I've got an earlier version so I can't try it but I think the following is an example of this option in use:
\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{biblatex}
\usepackage{filecontents}
\begin{filecontents*}{database.bib}
@book{texbook,
author = {Donald E. Knuth},
title = {The {{\TeX}book}},
publisher = {Addison-Wesley},
date = {1984}
}
\end{filecontents*}
\bibliography{database.bib}
\begin{document}
\cite{texbook}
\printbibliography[heading=none]
\end{document}
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1Although this a good answer for the general case, Regis is just using
\begin{thebibliography}...\end{thebibliography}so this won't help, I don't think. Jul 8, 2011 at 23:31 -
13@Alan: Yes, but it is good to have also an BibLaTeX solution around. Other people will have the same needs but use it instead. Jul 8, 2011 at 23:42
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3Other people such as myself... This was the first place that actually had the answer for biblatex. It's in the manual, but the manual is too long to read. Oct 29, 2014 at 19:23
Redefine the \bibsection-command. You want it empty, so do:
\renewcommand{\bibsection}{}
(Credits to http://latex.org/forum/viewtopic.php?t=4089, where I found the solution which worked for me.)
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3As they say in the link, this works only if \bibsection is defined and used somewhere, e.g. with natbib. Sep 7, 2017 at 16:10
Substitute your code with something like that.
\bibliographystyle{abntex2-alf}
\renewcommand{\bibname}{}
\bibliography{references.bib}
This worked using abntex2 style.
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4Just redefining
\bibnameto be empty will likely cause incorrect spacing (from the "empty" section) at the start of the bibliography.– lockstepMay 9, 2013 at 8:54
=)\sectionto simply remove it's argument should do it.\vspace.