How to remove the "References" title

Question

I would like to know how to remove the "References" title from command \bibliography{}.

If I write:

... text ... \cite{RefAnd2013} ...
\bibliographystyle{IEEEtran}
\bibliography{AnderBib}
... more text ...
\end{document}

Appears "References" title:

... text [1] ...

References

[1] W. Anderson, Environment Modeling with UML, in ... 2010. [Online]. Available: http://dx.doi.org/xxx

... more text ...

But, I need

... text [1] ...

[1] W. Anderson, Environment Modeling with UML, in ... 2010. [Online]. Available: http://dx.doi.org/xxx

... more text ...

Which document class are you using? – Gonzalo Medina Sep 10 '13 at 18:17 — Gonzalo Medina, Sep 10 '13 at 18:17

Gonzalo Medina · Accepted Answer · 2013-09-10T18:41:28.197

Add these lines to the preamble:

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

A complete example:

\begin{filecontents*}{aaaaabbbbbb.bib}
@misc{test,
title= "The title",
howpublished= "Publisher"
}
\end{filecontents*}
\documentclass{IEEEtran}
\usepackage{etoolbox}
\patchcmd{\thebibliography}{\section*{\refname}}{}{}{}

\begin{document}
\cite{test}
\bibliographystyle{IEEEtran}
\bibliography{aaaaabbbbbb}

\end{document}

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Since IEEEtran.cls automatically adds an entry for the references in the ToC, you might also be interested in suppressing this entry (after all, there's no section for the references); in this case, you will also have to add

\patchcmd{\thebibliography}{\addcontentsline{toc}{section}{\refname}}{}{}{}

Somehow doesn't work for me. – patapouf_ai Jul 11 '22 at 21:23 — patapouf_ai, Jul 11 '22 at 21:23

Apteryx · Answer 2 · 2015-08-02T17:20:08.170

39

If you don't mind using biblatex instead of bibtex, you could simply use the following: \printbibliography[heading=none].

Dependencies:

biblatex
biblatex-ieee (for the IEEE bibliography style)

Here's a minimal example:

\documentclass{article}
\usepackage[style=ieee]{biblatex}
\addbibresource{refs.bib}

\begin{document}

\section{Some section}
Some text \cite{KandR}.

\printbibliography[heading=none]

\end{document}

For the sake of completeness, here is the content of the refs.bib file used:

@BOOK
  {KandR,
   AUTHOR    = {Kernighan, Brian W. and Ritchie, Dennis M.},
   TITLE     = {The C Programming Language Second Edition},
   PUBLISHER = {Prentice-Hall, Inc.},
   YEAR      = 1988
  }

After compiling the document with latexmk -bibtex -pdf, the result should look like this:

edited Aug 02 '15 at 17:20

answered Jul 30 '15 at 02:02

Apteryx

521

Give me a example, because this did not work for me. – Anderson Jul 31 '15 at 19:12
2

I'm sorry, it seems this option is only available using biblatex instead of bibtex. I will update my answer with this information and a basic usage example. – Apteryx Aug 02 '15 at 17:00
1

This doesn't work for me, even with biblatex. – patapouf_ai Jul 11 '22 at 21:17

score 18 · Answer 3 · answered Oct 18 '19 at 10:21

18

If you are using the natbib package

\renewcommand{\bibsection}{}

will do the job.

answered Oct 18 '19 at 10:21

Spherical Triangle

725

1

This really a useful command. – Sorif Hossain Dec 17 '20 at 09:41

score 17 · Answer 4 · answered Sep 10 '13 at 18:59

17

I think something easier would be \renewcommand\refname{}

answered Sep 10 '13 at 18:59

Supernormal

842
8
12

3

The problem with this approach is that if \tableofcontents is used, then an odd entry with no title, but page number, is added to the ToC. – Gonzalo Medina Sep 10 '13 at 19:01
5

Moreover, space-wise, a section will still be set, perhaps leaving an unwanted (large) vertical gap between text and references. – Werner Sep 10 '13 at 19:06

score 9 · Answer 5 · answered Nov 05 '13 at 22:55

9

If you are using biblatex:

\defbibheading{bibliography}[\refname]{}

answered Nov 05 '13 at 22:55

s0rce

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3

\printbibliography[heading=none] as in Apteryx's answer. Would be slightly nicer, I think. – moewe Aug 08 '18 at 14:31

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