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I'm trying to create an MLA citation page using biblatex-mla. However, the \printbibliography command creates a 16-point (uncertain as to exact size), left-justified, Times header "Works Cited" rather than the header that's being created by the mla.sty that I'm using.

Is it possible to suppress the "Works Cited" text generated by \printbibliography? [edit:] I would like the header text that's used to be removed completely, including the vertical space so I can have the 'title' of the bibliography produced separately.

Minimum example showing unwanted header on second page:

\documentclass{article}
\usepackage[nopar]{lipsum} % for dummy text
\usepackage[american]{babel}
\usepackage[babel]{csquotes}
\usepackage[style=mla,backend=biber]{biblatex}
\begin{filecontents}{\jobname.bib}
@book{Saussure1995,
    Author = {Ferdinand de Saussure},
    Origyear = {1916},
    Publisher = {Payot},
    Title = {Cours de Linguistique G{\'e}n{\'e}rale},
    Year = {1995}}

@book{Labov1972,
    Address = {Philadelphia},
    Author = {William Labov},
    Publisher = {University of Pennsylvania Press},
    Title = {Sociolinguistic Patterns},
    Year = {1972}}

\end{filecontents}
\addbibresource{\jobname.bib}
\begin{document}


\lipsum[1]\autocite{Saussure1995}

\lipsum[2]\autocite{Labov1972}

\newpage

\printbibliography

\end{document}

For the file saved as mla_minimum_citations.tex, I compiled with:

latex mla_minimum_citations && biber mla_minimum_citations && latex mla_minimum_citations && pdflatex mla_minimum_citations

(Minimum example adapted from https://tex.stackexchange.com/a/30288/104015)

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Just add these lines to your preamble:

\DefineBibliographyStrings{english}{%
  bibliography = {Bibliography},%
  references= {References},%
}

or whatever names you want.

demonstration of changed text in bibliography heading If you don't want a title for your bibliography, to prevent any side effect that might result from redefining these strings as empty strings, it would be better to use the optional argument of \printbibliography:

\printbibliography[heading=none]
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  • Setting both fields ={} causes there to be an empty vertical space. Is there a setting to suppress the use of the BibliographyStrings in \printbibliography? – user2943160 Apr 24 '16 at 18:05
  • @user2943160: I've completed my answer for this special case. – Bernard Apr 24 '16 at 18:38
  • The second option still seems to require setting bibliography and references to empty strings to work correctly. Otherwise, the Works Cited text reappears, just raised higher on the page. – user2943160 Apr 24 '16 at 19:41
  • @user2943160: Finally, it's much simpler. It can be done with the heading key. Please see my updated answer. – Bernard Apr 24 '16 at 20:04