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I would like to put a quote before all the bibitems in my bibliography, like that:

\begin{thebibliography}{9}
\epigraph{Awesome quote}{William Shakespeare}
\bibitem{einstein} 
Albert Einstein. 
\textit{Zur Elektrodynamik bewegter K{\"o}rper}. (German) 
[\textit{On the electrodynamics of moving bodies}]. 
Annalen der Physik, 322(10):891–921, 1905.
\end{thebibliography}

Is there a simple way? It seems thebibliography waits for \bibitem only.

egreg
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David Bensoussan
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4 Answers4

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You could employ the \bibpreamble macro of the natbib citation and bibliography management package. Note that this approach works both if you use BibTeX to generate the bibliography and if you build the thebibliography environment entirely by hand.

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\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{epigraph} % for "\epigraph" macro
\usepackage[numbers]{natbib}
\renewcommand\bibpreamble{%
  \epigraph{Things should be made as simple as possible, but no simpler.}{Albert Einstein}}

\begin{document}
\begin{thebibliography}{9}

\bibitem{einstein} 
Albert Einstein. \textit{Zur Elektrodynamik bewegter K{\"o}rper}. (German) [\textit{On the electrodynamics of moving bodies}]. Annalen der Physik, 322(10):891--921, 1905.

\end{thebibliography}
\end{document}
Mico
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3

If you use the memoir class then:

\documenclass[...]{memoir}
...
\renewcommand{\prebibhook}{%
  \epigraph{Awesome quote}{William Shakespeare}%
}
...
\begin{thebibliography}{...}

and there is no need for the epigraph package as it is effectively built into the class.

Peter Wilson
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2

With the standard settings (no bibliography package added); note that \bibepigraph must go before starting the bibliography.

\documentclass[a4paper,oneside]{book} % oneside just for the example
\usepackage{epigraph} % for \epigraph
\usepackage{etoolbox} % for \patchcmd

\usepackage{lipsum} % for mock text

\patchcmd{\thebibliography}{\list}{\printbibepigraph\list}{}{}
\newcommand{\bibepigraph}[2]{%
  \def\printbibepigraph{\epigraph{#1}{#2}}%
}
\def\printbibepigraph{} % initialize

\begin{document}

\chapter{Title}

\epigraph{%
  F.: What a filthy job!\\
  I.: Could be worse.\\
  F.: How?\\
  I.: Could be raining.
}{Dr.~F.~Frankenstein and Igor}

\lipsum[1-2]


\bibepigraph{If anything can go wrong, it will}{Murphy}

\begin{thebibliography}{9}

\bibitem{cantor}
Georg Cantor, \textit{\"Uber eine Eigenschaft des Inbegriffes aller reellen algebraischen Zahlen},
Journal f\"ur die Reine und Angewandte Mathematik \textbf{77} (1874), 258--262.

\end{thebibliography}

\end{document}

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If BibTeX is used, it will be like

\bibepigraph{If anything can go wrong, it will}{Murphy}
\bibliographystyle{<style>}
\bibliography{<filename>}
egreg
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1

You should redefine the bibliography title and insert the epigraph there. Like this:

\documentclass[varwidth,margin = 1mm]{standalone}
\usepackage{epigraph}

\renewcommand\refname{Reference\epigraph{Awesome quote}{William Shakespeare}}
\begin{document}

\begin{thebibliography}{9}
\bibitem{einstein} 
Albert Einstein. 
\textit{Zur Elektrodynamik bewegter K{\"o}rper}. (German) 
[\textit{On the electrodynamics of moving bodies}]. 
Annalen der Physik, 322(10):891–921, 1905.
\end{thebibliography}
\end{document}

QStar
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