To have no pagebreak before Bibliography

Question

The position of Bibliography section is defined by document class, report class is a new page, some articles class no has page break.

How change this witout change the class of the document? So i have a report class but how generate Bibliography without page break.

You can check the report source code, find the macro placing the bibliography, and use \renewcommand in your preamble to remove the call to \pagebreak or similar. — T. Verron, Sep 27 '12 at 04:28
So you want your bibliography to show like a section instead of like a chapter? — Gonzalo Medina, Sep 27 '12 at 04:31

Gonzalo Medina · Accepted Answer · 2012-09-27T04:57:26.190

Internally, thebibliography environment uses \chapter*; if you want the bibliography to behave like a section, you can patch the \thebibliography command to use \section* instead of chapter*. To do this, add the following lines to the preamble:

\usepackage{etoolbox}
\patchcmd{\thebibliography}{\chapter*}{\section*}{}{}

A complete example:

\documentclass{report}
\usepackage{etoolbox}
\usepackage{lipsum}% just to generate text for the example

\patchcmd{\thebibliography}{\chapter*}{\section*}{}{}

\begin{document}

\lipsum[1]

\begin{thebibliography}{9}
\bibitem{a} Test A.
\end{thebibliography}

\end{document}

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If the biblatex package is used to produce the bibliography, one can use \defbibheading to define a heading using \section*:

\documentclass{report}
\usepackage{lipsum}
\usepackage{biblatex}

\addbibresource{biblatex-examples.bib}
\defbibheading{secbib}[\bibname]{%
  \section*{#1}%
  \markboth{#1}{#1}}

\begin{document}

\lipsum[1]
\nocite{*}

\printbibliography[heading=secbib]

\end{document}

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I there a way to do the same thing if I am using bibtex (not biblatex)? — Leila, Sep 17 '17 at 00:44

score 25 · Answer 2 · answered Jul 12 '16 at 13:23

25

If you are using the natbib package, you may try the option sectionbib:

\usepackage[sectionbib]{natbib}

answered Jul 12 '16 at 13:23

Björn

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This is so much simpler than the top answer – Yan King Yin Jun 13 '17 at 14:38
1

Solved a similar issue with the bibentry package – Heather Turner Nov 09 '18 at 15:41
Works in conjunction with numbers, as: \usepackage[numbers,sectionbib]{natbib} – maurice Mar 08 '19 at 19:43
This works, but it affects the level of the bibliography in your TOC – Thomas Wagenaar Jun 30 '21 at 11:34

zakkak · Answer 3 · 2020-09-03T11:48:25.787

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If the biblatex package is used to produce the bibliography, you can also use one of the predefined headings, i.e. subbibliography

For instance:

\printbibliography[heading=subbibliography]

You can refer to section 3.6.8 Bibliography Headings and Environments in the biblatex manual.

edited Sep 03 '20 at 11:48

answered Nov 24 '14 at 20:35

zakkak

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This works like a charm, n.b. the actual command is \printbibliography[heading=subbibliography] – Mr. Tao Jul 27 '18 at 00:30

score 3 · Answer 4 · edited Nov 30 '18 at 12:03

bilatex package is useful and very easy in such case. Suppose,

You want a section inside document as well as an un-numbered section entry in table of contents, then use
```
\printbibliography[heading=subbibintoc,] % TOC has an entry 'References' as an un-numbered section
```
You just want a section inside document and no entry in table of contents, then use
```
\printbibliography[heading=subbibliography,] % No entry in TOC
```

An MWE, borrowed from Gonzalo Medina's answer would be like this:

\documentclass{report}
\usepackage{lipsum}
\usepackage{biblatex}
\addbibresource{biblatex-examples.bib}

\begin{document}
\tableofcontents
\lipsum[1]
\nocite{*}
% un-comment any one from the following as per your choice
%\printbibliography[heading=subbibliography,] % No entry in TOC
%\printbibliography[heading=subbibintoc,] % TOC has an entry 'References' as an un-numbered section
\end{document}

I removed the definition of secbib that remained in the copy of Gonzalo's MWE, it was not used here and would probably only confuse people. — moewe, Nov 30 '18 at 12:04
FWIW I think this use of subbibliography or subbibintoc (or subbibnumbered) is generally slightly nicer than a new heading definition such as secbib in simple cases. But in more complicated case a new definition might be inevitable. — moewe, Nov 30 '18 at 12:05

score 1 · Answer 5 · answered Mar 01 '16 at 12:55

FWIW, when using the llncs class together with the natbib package, one gets a bibliography on a separate page, listing reference indexed as [1], [2]... instead of 1., 2.... as expected by LNCS.

To avoid that problem, I use:

\usepackage[numbers]{natbib}
% Hack natbib so it matches the LNCS style: reference list in a
% section with small font and no square brackets.
\renewcommand\bibsection
  {\section*{\refname}\small\renewcommand\bibnumfmt[1]{##1.}}

score 0 · Answer 6 · answered Oct 05 '21 at 08:53

If you use koma-script, you can select this in the options. The option leveldown changes the bibliography from a chapter to a section in the class scrbook. I borrow the nice example from Gonzalo Medina above:

\documentclass[bibliography=leveldown]{scrbook}
\usepackage{lipsum}% just to generate text for the example
\begin{document}
\lipsum[1]
\begin{thebibliography}{9} 
\bibitem{a} Test A.
\end{thebibliography}
\end{document}

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