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So I have the following problem: I have a bunch of floats that have not been placed yet before the bibliography starts;

If I don't do anything about it, I get the bibliography and then afterwards the remaining floats; However, I want the bibliography last;

Typical, you would do something like

\FloatBarrier

or

\clearpage

directly before

\bibliographystyle{abbrvnat}
\bibliography{bib}

which puts all the remaining figures in front of the bibliography - however, it also performs a page break which gives me a page that is 80% empty; How can I avoid it?

I searched online but only found incorrect answers, see e.g. here

Clearpage without pagebreak?

All these methods generally produce a new page as well

Johannes
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    You could try the fewerfloatpages package but in general please always supply a small but complete test file that shows the problem. – David Carlisle Dec 08 '21 at 16:13
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    It would be a good idea to check the float that starts the deferral to see if there is a reason -- maybe it's too large for the space allowed at top or bottom of a page and you didn't include a "p" specification in your placement options. (That's the most frequent cause for deferring floats that I know of.) There may be a message in your log file. – barbara beeton Dec 11 '21 at 00:06
  • If you are using Plain TeX or OpTeX then you can use \vfill\supereject before pages with the bibliography list. – wipet May 10 '22 at 05:08
  • Just a comment to say that I am having exactly the same problem, and the "fewerfloatpages" package doesn't solve it. – H A Helfgott Sep 30 '22 at 13:13
  • Other related questions: https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/276408/floatbarrier-starting-a-new-page https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/73778/figure-appears-in-bibliography https://tex.stackexchange.com/q/39017/119 – Willie Wong Feb 23 '24 at 02:43

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Not an answer but when I tried to add a comment nothing happened.

I tried a short MWE

 %bibprob.tex  SE 625388

\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{blindtext}


\begin{document}


Some text. \cite{author-book}


\bibliographystyle{plain}
\bibliography{jobname}


\end{document}

and the bibliography did not start a new page. Please provide a MWE that actually shows your problem.

Peter Wilson
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