The obsolescent thesis template provided (without support, of course) by my university has a strange problem in the bibliography section:
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The problems are circled: the section is titled as a numbered chapter, it has a random asterisk below it (which also appears as the title in the table of contents), and the correct title ("References", unnumbered) appears immediately before the actual references.
I don't think I'm doing anything particularly unusual (the template itself was broken, and required significant effort to even get compiling, but I think the way it does references is original, or close to it). The code basically looks like:
\documentclass[11pt,Chicago]{<required-thesis-documentclass>}
%...
\usepackage{natbib}
\setcitestyle{authoryear,square,aysep={}}
%...
\usepackage{<required-thesis-style-overriding-package>}
%...
\begin{document}
%...
\bibliographystyle{plainnat}
\bibliography{<many-files>}
\end{document}
I tried many things myself to fix this, and didn't get much of anywhere. What I can say is that in the <required-thesis-style-overriding-package>'s ".sty" file, it does:
\global \def \bibname {References}
which seems okay, and changing this changes the text. I also suspect the asterisk comes from misinterpreting a \chapter*{...} somewhere. \bibname is not mentioned anywhere else in the code and \bibsection is not present at all.
What might be going wrong and how can I fix it?
