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The position of Bibliography section is defined by document class, report class is a new page, some articles class no has page break.

How change this witout change the class of the document? So i have a report class but how generate Bibliography without page break.

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  • You can check the report source code, find the macro placing the bibliography, and use \renewcommand in your preamble to remove the call to \pagebreak or similar.
    – T. Verron
    Sep 27, 2012 at 4:28
  • So you want your bibliography to show like a section instead of like a chapter?
    – Gonzalo Medina
    Sep 27, 2012 at 4:31
  • @GonzaloMedina yes, rigth
    – richie-torres
    Sep 27, 2012 at 4:32

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Internally, thebibliography environment uses \chapter*; if you want the bibliography to behave like a section, you can patch the \thebibliography command to use \section* instead of chapter*. To do this, add the following lines to the preamble:

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

A complete example:

\documentclass{report}
\usepackage{etoolbox}
\usepackage{lipsum}% just to generate text for the example

\patchcmd{\thebibliography}{\chapter*}{\section*}{}{}

\begin{document}

\lipsum[1]

\begin{thebibliography}{9}
\bibitem{a} Test A.
\end{thebibliography}

\end{document}

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If the biblatex package is used to produce the bibliography, one can use \defbibheading to define a heading using \section*:

\documentclass{report}
\usepackage{lipsum}
\usepackage{biblatex}

\addbibresource{biblatex-examples.bib}
\defbibheading{secbib}[\bibname]{%
  \section*{#1}%
  \markboth{#1}{#1}}

\begin{document}

\lipsum[1]
\nocite{*}

\printbibliography[heading=secbib]

\end{document}

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  • I there a way to do the same thing if I am using bibtex (not biblatex)?
    – Leila
    Sep 17, 2017 at 0:44
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If you are using the natbib package, you may try the option sectionbib:

\usepackage[sectionbib]{natbib}

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    This is so much simpler than the top answer 😝
    – Yan King Yin
    Jun 13, 2017 at 14:38
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    Solved a similar issue with the bibentry package
    – Heather Turner
    Nov 9, 2018 at 15:41
  • Works in conjunction with numbers, as: \usepackage[numbers,sectionbib]{natbib}
    – maurice
    Mar 8, 2019 at 19:43
  • This works, but it affects the level of the bibliography in your TOC
    – Thomas Wagenaar
    Jun 30, 2021 at 11:34
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If the biblatex package is used to produce the bibliography, you can also use one of the predefined headings, i.e. subbibliography

For instance:

\printbibliography[heading=subbibliography]

You can refer to section 3.6.8 Bibliography Headings and Environments in the biblatex manual.

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    This works like a charm, n.b. the actual command is \printbibliography[heading=subbibliography]
    – Mr. Tao
    Jul 27, 2018 at 0:30
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bilatex package is useful and very easy in such case. Suppose,

  1. You want a section inside document as well as an un-numbered section entry in table of contents, then use 

    \printbibliography[heading=subbibintoc,] % TOC has an entry 'References' as an un-numbered section

  2. You just want a section inside document and no entry in table of contents, then use

    \printbibliography[heading=subbibliography,] % No entry in TOC

An MWE, borrowed from Gonzalo Medina's answer would be like this:

\documentclass{report}
\usepackage{lipsum}
\usepackage{biblatex}
\addbibresource{biblatex-examples.bib}

\begin{document}
\tableofcontents
\lipsum[1]
\nocite{*}
% un-comment any one from the following as per your choice
%\printbibliography[heading=subbibliography,] % No entry in TOC
%\printbibliography[heading=subbibintoc,] % TOC has an entry 'References' as an un-numbered section
\end{document}
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    I removed the definition of secbib that remained in the copy of Gonzalo's MWE, it was not used here and would probably only confuse people.
    – moewe
    Nov 30, 2018 at 12:04
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    FWIW I think this use of subbibliography or subbibintoc (or subbibnumbered) is generally slightly nicer than a new heading definition such as secbib in simple cases. But in more complicated case a new definition might be inevitable.
    – moewe
    Nov 30, 2018 at 12:05
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FWIW, when using the llncs class together with the natbib package, one gets a bibliography on a separate page, listing reference indexed as [1], [2]... instead of 1., 2.... as expected by LNCS.

To avoid that problem, I use:

\usepackage[numbers]{natbib}
% Hack natbib so it matches the LNCS style: reference list in a
% section with small font and no square brackets.
\renewcommand\bibsection
  {\section*{\refname}\small\renewcommand\bibnumfmt[1]{##1.}}
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  • Perfect, thank you!
    – Rasmus
    Jun 27, 2022 at 17:45
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If you use koma-script, you can select this in the options. The option leveldown changes the bibliography from a chapter to a section in the class scrbook. I borrow the nice example from Gonzalo Medina above:

\documentclass[bibliography=leveldown]{scrbook}
\usepackage{lipsum}% just to generate text for the example

\begin{document}

\lipsum[1]

\begin{thebibliography}{9} 
\bibitem{a} Test A.
\end{thebibliography}

\end{document}

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