bibliography heading

Question

I have the following code:

\documentclass[oneside]{book}  
\usepackage[utf8]{inputenc}  
\begin{document}  
\bibliographystyle{apalike}  
\chapter{Bibliography}  
\begin{thebibliography}{}  
\bibitem[Xyz 2010]{xyz-2010}  
Xyz. et. al. (2010). Blabla.  
\end{thebibliography}  
\end{document}  

This prints one page with the title of the chapter ('Bibliography') and another page with the second heading 'Bibliography'.

I would like to remove the second heading and have everything on one page. The word 'Bibliography' should appear only in the title of the chapter. This chapter should be also visible in the table of contents.

Modifying

\begingroup
\renewcommand{\chapter}[2]{}
\chapter{Bibliography}
\begin{thebibliography}{}
\bibitem[Xyz 2010]{xyz-2010}
Xyz. et. al. (2010). Blabla.
\end{thebibliography}
\endgroup

as suggested here, removes the title of the chapter altogether, whereas adding

\renewcommand\bibname{ }

as suggested here, does not have any effect at all. Most of other solutions I have found is designed for bibliographies using a separate .bib file, so they are not appropriate for me.

Answer 1

Here is the redefinition of the bibliography environment:

\begin{filecontents*}{lib.bib}
@book{goossens93,
    author    = "Michel Goossens and Frank Mittelbach and Alexander Samarin",
    title     = "The LaTeX Companion",
    year      = "1993",
    publisher = "Addison-Wesley",
    address   = "Reading, Massachusetts"
}
\end{filecontents*}

\documentclass[oneside]{book}  

% Renew bibliography environement
\makeatletter
\renewenvironment{thebibliography}[1]
     {\chapter{\bibname}% <-- this line was changed from \chapter* to \chapter so the number appear
      \@mkboth{\MakeUppercase\bibname}{\MakeUppercase\bibname}%
      \list{\@biblabel{\@arabic\c@enumiv}}%
           {\settowidth\labelwidth{\@biblabel{#1}}%
            \leftmargin\labelwidth
            \advance\leftmargin\labelsep
            \@openbib@code
            \usecounter{enumiv}%
            \let\p@enumiv\@empty
            \renewcommand\theenumiv{\@arabic\c@enumiv}}%
      \sloppy
      \clubpenalty4000
      \@clubpenalty \clubpenalty
      \widowpenalty4000%
      \sfcode`\.\@m}
     {\def\@noitemerr
       {\@latex@warning{Empty `thebibliography' environment}}%
      \endlist}
\makeatother


\usepackage[utf8]{inputenc} 
\usepackage{filecontents}

\begin{document}  

\chapter{My Chapter}

Here is a citation \cite{goossens93}.

\bibliographystyle{apalike} 
\bibliography{lib}

\end{document} 

So the bibliography appear as a normal chapter using the chapter numbering system. Adding a * after chapter will bring the bibliography back to normal (no number).

A variant without a bibfile, only using bibitems would be:

\documentclass[oneside]{book}  
\usepackage[english]{babel}
\usepackage[utf8]{inputenc}

% Renew bibliography environement
\makeatletter
\renewenvironment{thebibliography}[1]
     {\chapter{\bibname}% <-- this line was changed from \chapter* to \chapter so the number appear
      \@mkboth{\MakeUppercase\bibname}{\MakeUppercase\bibname}%
      \list{\@biblabel{\@arabic\c@enumiv}}%
           {\settowidth\labelwidth{\@biblabel{#1}}%
            \leftmargin\labelwidth
            \advance\leftmargin\labelsep
            \@openbib@code
            \usecounter{enumiv}%
            \let\p@enumiv\@empty
            \renewcommand\theenumiv{\@arabic\c@enumiv}}%
      \sloppy
      \clubpenalty4000
      \@clubpenalty \clubpenalty
      \widowpenalty4000%
      \sfcode`\.\@m}
     {\def\@noitemerr
       {\@latex@warning{Empty `thebibliography' environment}}%
      \endlist}
\makeatother

\begin{document}  

\chapter{My first chapter}

blablabla

\bibliographystyle{apalike} 
\begin{thebibliography}{}  

\bibitem[Xyz 2010]{xyz-2010}  
Xyz. et. al. (2010). Blabla.  

\bibitem{Simpson} Homer J. Simpson. \textsl{Mmmmm...donuts}.
Evergreen Terrace Printing Co., Springfield, SomewhereUSA, 1998

\end{thebibliography}  

\end{document}

Hope it helps.

Romain