Bibliography (not References) with bibtex

Question

I want to add a bibliography section. The bibliography section will:

List references, as formatted by bibtex but under the header "Bibliography"
Not have its shorthand/number/link appear anywhere else in the document.

The best I've gotten is to forcefully change the name with:

\renewcommand\refname{Bibliography}

Then populate references with \nocite.

Finally, I can then just:

\bibliography{refs}{}
\bibliographystyle{apa}

This method still assigns a key to the reference which is displayed at the very left which I don't want:

Is it possible to not have this appear? It would also be nice to separate out references and bibliography into different sections, where references use the default behaviour.

The layout of the bibliography depends on the uses style. You could, e.g., use package biblatex with option style=authoryear to have a bibliography without such kind of labels. The default title depends on the used class. For example article uses References, but report and book use Bibliography. You can change this indeed redefining \refname resp. \bibname. biblatex also provides an option. — cabohah, Jun 23 '23 at 09:33

cabohah · Answer 1 · 2023-06-23T10:03:25.957

Unfortunately your question is not very detailed, e.g.,

how you want the bibliography shown,
which class you are using.

However, it seems you don't want the result of \bibliographystyle{apa}. So maybe you want something like an author-year style. If so, you could, e.g., use package biblatex with option style=authoryear:

\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{csquotes}
\usepackage[style=authoryear]{biblatex}
\addbibresource{biblatex-examples.bib}% This is only an example, provided by
                                % biblatex and therefore useful for minimal
                                % working examples.
\nocite{*}% Show all references from the database.
\begin{document}
\printbibliography[title=Bibliography]
\end{document}

After running LaTeX + Biber + LaTeX + LaTeX (LaTeX can be either PDFLaTeX, LuaLaTeX or XeLaTeX), you would get a document with six pages of bibliography. The first one:

You can get something similar using BiBTeX with \bibliographystyle and \bibliography, but with less flexibility:

% Following environment is just used to generate an example bib-file.
% Ususally you would not use it in a real document.
\begin{filecontents}[overwrite]{\jobname.bib}
@book{Agrawa2021,
  author={Agrawal, G.},
  year=2021,
  title={Fiber-Optic Communication Systems},
  publisher={Wiley}
}
\end{filecontents}
\documentclass{article}
\usepackage[english]{babel}
\addto\captionsenglish{\def\refname{Bibliography}}
\usepackage{natbib}
\bibliographystyle{apalike}
\begin{document}
\nocite{*}
\section{One test section}
\bibliography{\jobname}
\end{document}

In this case you have to run LaTeX + BibTeX + LaTeX + LaTeX to get:

Note: There are already a lot of questions about making bibliographies using either BibTeX and some packages like natbib or apastyle, or using biblatex and biber. For information about setting up your editor to use biber instead of bibtex see, e.g., Biblatex with Biber: Configuring my editor to avoid undefined citations

If you have further questions about making a bibliography please ask a new more detailed question and also add a minimal working example with bibliography.

Bibliography (not References) with bibtex

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