Hiding the title of the bibliography

Question

I'd like to get rid of the bibliography heading: enter image description here

Please note that I'm using the thebibliography environment.

Honestly, I do net really understand your question. My guess is GoogleTranslate or similar. Could you, even with insufficient english, try to rephrase your problem? — Thilo, Jul 08 '11 at 21:59
Regis, the wording is really confusing. It would be good if you tried to explain better what you want, perhaps with the help of google translate or similar. — Vivi, Jul 08 '11 at 21:59
Regis, my guess is that you are trying to remove the bibliography heading. Maybe you could also provide a minimal working example (MWE). OFF: Nice to see another brazilian around. =) — Paulo Cereda, Jul 08 '11 at 22:09
Regis, I speak Portuguese. If you explain what you need in a comment I can translate it for you. — Vivi, Jul 08 '11 at 22:10
@Regis What package are you using to setup the bibliography? — N.N., Jul 08 '11 at 22:18
ola pessoal, desculpe-me se não consegui me expressar em inglês, eu só quero tirar o título 'referencia' da bibliografia. só isso. — Regis Santos, Jul 08 '11 at 22:27
I would guess locally redefining \section to simply remove it's argument should do it. — Martin Scharrer, Jul 08 '11 at 22:29
Eu não consegui ainda. Eu queria uma coisa simples com \begin{thebibliography} — Regis Santos, Jul 08 '11 at 22:55
@Regis: Eu tomei a liberdade de traduzir seu comentário para o Inglês e alterei o texto da sua questão para tentar melhorar a legibilidade. Se precisar editá-lo novamente, fique à vontade. Qualquer coisa, @Vivi e eu podemos te auxiliar. — Paulo Cereda, Jul 08 '11 at 22:55
@Regis da Silva : meu email esta no meu perfil. A resposta abaixo nao resolve seu problema? Se nao resolve, explica pq nao e o que quer. — Vivi, Jul 08 '11 at 23:14
@Vivi, seu email não aparece no seu perfil, mas o meu aparece, será que vc pode me enviar um email por favor? grato! — Regis Santos, Jul 08 '11 at 23:21
@Regis what document class are you using? Is the image from your document? — Alan Munn, Jul 08 '11 at 23:27
Duplicate of http://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/33316/bibtex-with-no-references-title, but the accepted answer here is better IMO as it does not require \vspace. — SabreWolfy, Aug 07 '12 at 19:39

Martin Scharrer · Accepted Answer · 2011-07-08T23:39:19.650

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The thebibliography environment uses \section*{\refname} (article class and similar classes) or \chapter*{\bibname} (book and report and similar classes) internally. Redefining that macro locally to take and discard two arguments (one for *, one for the actual argument) will remove the headline.

Example:

\documentclass{article}

\begin{document}

\begingroup
\renewcommand{\section}[2]{}%
%\renewcommand{\chapter}[2]{}% for other classes
\begin{thebibliography}{}
\bibitem{ano05}
    A. Nonymous et al.\ 2005
\bibitem{oe04}
    A.N. Other \& S.O.M. Ebody 2004
\end{thebibliography}
\endgroup

\end{document}

This also works for BibTeX's \bibliography{..} because it uses thebibliography internally. For this use:

\begingroup
\renewcommand{\section}[2]{}%
%\renewcommand{\chapter}[2]{}% for other classes
\bibliography{mybibfile}
\endgroup

edited Jul 08 '11 at 23:39

answered Jul 08 '11 at 23:30

Martin Scharrer

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Building on @Martin's answer, if you want to use a subsection or other header instead change the line \renewcommand{\section}[2]{}% to \renewcommand{\section}[2]{\subsection#1{#2}}% or equivalent. – ihuston Jul 26 '11 at 13:43
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This only hides section in text, but not in the table of contents ... – smihael Mar 03 '14 at 11:56
Hmm, in my tests with book, I get with \traceon: \thebibliography #1->\chapter *{\bibname }\@mkboth {\MakeUppercase \bibname }{\ MakeUppercase \bibname }... ; and so even if I do \renewcommand{\chapter}[2]{}, some of the "Bibliography" title still leaks (via \MakeUppercase, apparently)? I guess in such a case, it only remains to set \bibname to empty, as suggested below... – sdaau Jun 30 '14 at 07:15
This solution just removes all section titles after the \renewcommand. What if you have an appendix after the bibliography? – Tyson Williams Sep 19 '14 at 16:04
This alternative answer to an unofficial duplicate does want I want. – Tyson Williams Sep 19 '14 at 16:13
@martin-scharrer How can I redefine the \section macro to be its original definition? My document class is "article". The bibliography is not the last section so I need to restore the old definition afterwards. – Leila Sep 26 '17 at 19:45
@Seeda: If the change is wrapped in \begingroup .. \endgroup the old definition will be restored afterwards automatically. – Martin Scharrer Oct 14 '17 at 06:55
It is \renewcommand{\section}[1]{} in my case. – Albert Oct 25 '21 at 10:33

score 63 · Answer 2 · answered Jul 08 '11 at 22:30

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If you use biblatex you can use the bibliography heading none which was added in version 1.5 (see the manual, section 3.5.7). I've got an earlier version so I can't try it but I think the following is an example of this option in use:

\documentclass{article}

\usepackage{biblatex}

\usepackage{filecontents}

\begin{filecontents*}{database.bib}
@book{texbook,
    author  = {Donald E. Knuth},
    title   = {The {{\TeX}book}},
    publisher   = {Addison-Wesley},
    date    = {1984}
    }
\end{filecontents*}

\bibliography{database.bib}

\begin{document}

\cite{texbook}

\printbibliography[heading=none]

\end{document}

answered Jul 08 '11 at 22:30

N.N.

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Although this a good answer for the general case, Regis is just using \begin{thebibliography} ... \end{thebibliography} so this won't help, I don't think. – Alan Munn Jul 08 '11 at 23:31
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@Alan: Yes, but it is good to have also an BibLaTeX solution around. Other people will have the same needs but use it instead. – Martin Scharrer Jul 08 '11 at 23:42
3

Other people such as myself... This was the first place that actually had the answer for biblatex. It's in the manual, but the manual is too long to read. – daviewales Oct 29 '14 at 19:23

score 11 · Answer 3 · edited Apr 12 '21 at 13:08

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Redefine the \bibsection-command. You want it empty, so do:

\renewcommand{\bibsection}{}

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

edited Apr 12 '21 at 13:08

Timothy M Pollington

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answered May 20 '17 at 16:40

Golar Ramblar

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As they say in the link, this works only if \bibsection is defined and used somewhere, e.g. with natbib. – Effervescenza Naturale Sep 07 '17 at 16:10

score 0 · Answer 4 · edited May 09 '13 at 04:19

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Substitute your code with something like that.

\bibliographystyle{abntex2-alf}
\renewcommand{\bibname}{}
\bibliography{references.bib}

This worked using abntex2 style.

edited May 09 '13 at 04:19

Werner

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answered May 09 '13 at 03:59

arthur.afarias

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Just redefining \bibname to be empty will likely cause incorrect spacing (from the "empty" section) at the start of the bibliography. – lockstep May 09 '13 at 08:54

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