General ⇒ Bibliography - Insert plain text

[Paedi]

Hello,

How can I insert some normal, plain text below the title "Bibliography" ? I'm using BibTex.
I know that the bibliography is a listing environment and that introducing normal text could be difficult. Unfortunately my professor wants me to add a small note before the actual listing of references starts. I thought about the following "hacks" (i know its against latex philosophy ):

- Adding the note as a "fake" \bibitem and trying to suppress the label in front
- Adding the note as minipage before the bibliography and translating it to the right spot

Do you have a more elegant method?
Thanks for your help!


EDIT: I found the solution finally.

Actually, i did not find the right place to add my "fake" bibliographic entry as the whole list of \bibitems is automatically sorted and printed using a whole bunch of functions... I put my solution in here, it might help somebody one day

FUNCTION {begin.bib}
{ preamble$ empty$
'skip$
{ preamble$ write$ newline$ }
if$
"\begin{thebibliography}{" longest.label * "}" * write$ newline$
"\item[] \textbf{Note:} ADD THE TEXT RIGHT HERE.\bigskip" write$ newline$
}

[Juanjo]

Your approach has a serious drawback: you have to patch the corresponding bst file. It is simpler to redefine \thebibliography (the command that opens the bibliography, defined through the thebibliography environment) as follows:

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\let\thebibliographyOLD\thebibliography
\renewcommand{\thebibliography}[1]{\thebibliographyOLD{#1}%
  \item[] \textbf{Note:} ADD THE TEXT RIGHT HERE.\bigskip}