Renaming the bibliography page using BibTeX

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Is there a way to rename (or do away with the name of) the bibliography page that is output using BibTeX? If so, is the name dependent on the bibliographystyle, or is it something inherent within the BibTeX functionality?

score 97 · Accepted Answer · answered Mar 03 '11 at 23:14

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This does not depend on BibTeX, but on the document class. The article class uses the \refname macro (which is defined as References) when typesetting the bibliography heading; the book and report class use \bibname (which is defined as Bibliography). So try to add e.g. the following to your preamble:

\renewcommand{\bibname}{Whatever floats your boat}

EDIT: Special bibliography packages may use a different mechanism.

answered Mar 03 '11 at 23:14

lockstep

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@user19502 If you use babel, see Danie Els' answer. If that doesn't help, please ask a new question and include a MWE. – lockstep Jul 01 '13 at 05:09
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This works, but only when I add the new definition after \begin{document}. – Yoda Jul 27 '14 at 19:37
This works for Biber as well, for those few users like me using biber. – Mohit May 04 '18 at 09:17
Adding to what @Yoda said, I got this to work when I added this command right above \bibliographystyle{} which itself I had right above \bibliography{} – arara Apr 03 '22 at 18:33

score 40 · Answer 2 · answered Mar 04 '11 at 01:41

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Just be careful if you are using babel to setup a language. The \captions<lang> command overwrites everything. Rather use the following

\documentclass[afrikaans, english,%... Global language selection
              ]{book}
\usepackage{babel}%.................. Language setup
    \addto{\captionsafrikaans}{\renewcommand{\bibname}{Lys van Verwysings}}
    \addto{\captionsenglish}{\renewcommand{\bibname}{List of References}}

answered Mar 04 '11 at 01:41

Danie Els

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Nice answer! But note that answers should be self-contained and not refer to or relay on other answers (too much). Otherwise it might be confusing for the reader to read: answers with the same amount of votes are displayed in random order and in theory the other answer could be deleted by the author. – Martin Scharrer Mar 04 '11 at 06:58

score 31 · Answer 3 · edited Jun 08 '14 at 20:42

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Change bibliography heading

You can change the heading of your bibliography by inserting a ERT element (Insert→TeX) right before the bibliography with the following command: \renewcommand\refname{New References Header} or \renewcommand\bibname{New Bibliography Header}, depending on whether you use an article or a report/book class.

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I also tried with \renewcommand\bibname{New Bibliography Header} and it didn't work, but with \renewcommand\refname{New References Header} it did work.

edited Jun 08 '14 at 20:42

jub0bs

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answered Jun 08 '14 at 20:10

Neaţu Ovidiu Gabriel

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Same here, only \refname works (using BibLaTeX though). – Nikos Alexandris Oct 09 '15 at 08:31

score 22 · Answer 4 · edited Jul 26 '23 at 19:02

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Renaming the bibliography depends on whether you are using babel or not. Without babel it is simple

\renewcommand{\bibname}{References}

With babel it depends again on the language option. Assumed that you set english as language option, it will look like

\usepackage[english]{babel}
\addto{\extrasenglish}{%
  \renewcommand{\bibname}{References}
}

edited Jul 26 '23 at 19:02

Alan Munn

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answered Apr 25 '16 at 14:28

LMKR

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Was the first approach that worked for me. Thanks! – Rob Strasser Apr 01 '20 at 17:20
This saved my time! – High Performance Rangsiman Jun 15 '21 at 14:02

score 19 · Answer 5 · edited Jun 11 '20 at 21:45

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For BibLaTeX, set the option title of \printbibliography:

\printbibliography[title = {Whatever title you want to make}]

edited Jun 11 '20 at 21:45

Mateen Ulhaq

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answered May 05 '16 at 05:56

user104842

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Welcome, you might want to mention that this only is valid for package biblatex. – Johannes_B May 05 '16 at 06:11
Does not seem to work for empty titles title = { }. Do you know how to get that? – Marius Hofert Nov 15 '19 at 18:27

score 4 · Answer 6 · answered May 20 '17 at 20:04

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Renew the \bibsection-command. For example:

\renewcommand{\bibsection}{\subsection*{New title, typeset as un-numbered subsection.}}

(Credits to http://latex.org/forum/viewtopic.php?t=4089, where I found the solution which worked for me.)

answered May 20 '17 at 20:04

Golar Ramblar

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This won't work for all use cases, though. – Johannes_B May 21 '17 at 07:52
Works with revtex – Karolis May 29 '18 at 16:49

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