Suppress Bibliography number in Table of Contents

Question

i want to suppress the item number of bibliography in the Table of contents. Searched a lot but could not find any relevant and easy fix for it. i use the following code.

// preambles
\documentclass[12pt]{report}
\SOME MORE PACKAGES
\usepackage[nottoc,numbib]{tocbibind}


// main.tex file
\input{chap1.tex}
\input{chap2.tex}
\input{bib.tex}


 // bib.tex file
 \titleformat{\chapter}{}{}{0em}{\bf \huge} 
 \begin{thebibliography}{99} 
    \bibitem{asdf}  
       X Y Z.
    \bibitem
       A B C
 \end{thebibliography}

Current output

4 Conclusions ..... 30
5 Bibliography      32
Appendices          40
...

Expected output

4 Conclusions ..... 30
Bibliography        32
Appendices          40
...

Please suggest. I use \input{bib} for inserting my bibliography and i dont have the time fix it using \bibliography command. Found a lot of solutions. But wasnt able to incorporate in my current latex code

Note: I managed to remove the chapter number in the Bibliography section using the \titleformat{...} line. But I am not able to remove it from Table of contents.

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score 5 · Accepted Answer · edited Apr 13 '17 at 12:34

What you have to do is to simply remove the option numbib when loading tocbibind, so write

\usepackage[nottoc]{tocbibind}

instead of

\usepackage[nottoc,numbib]{tocbibind}

If you use the numbib option, you are telling LaTeX that you want a numbered bibliography...

Note that if you do that, you don't even need the line

\titleformat{\chapter}{}{}{0em}{\bf \huge}

in your .bib file.

MWE (just to show that it works):

\documentclass[12pt]{report}
\usepackage[nottoc]{tocbibind}

\begin{document}

\tableofcontents

\chapter{Test}

\nocite{*}
 \begin{thebibliography}{99}
    \bibitem{asdf}
       X Y Z.
    \bibitem
       A B C
 \end{thebibliography}
\end{document}

Output (ToC):

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and the bibliography

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As a side note, never use \bf in a LaTeX document, but \textbf or \bfseries. See for example "Correct" way to bold/italicize text? for reference.

i feel really silly. should have understood first instead of just using the solution from other sources! — Pogo, Jan 13 '15 at 06:13

Suppress Bibliography number in Table of Contents

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