BibTeX, biblatex and biber ⇒ Remove Biblio heading (references word and space)

[verbunk]

Hi Guys,

How do I remove the mini-heading that the biblio inserts when it's called? In this heading it prints "References" and some whitespace/rule. I can remove the word by using,

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\renewcommand{\refname}{}

,

but can't figure out how to get rid of the whitespace and horizontal rule.

I checked in plain.bst (for instance) but there is no mention of that functionality.

-J

[localghost]

Unfortunately your post contains only very few useful information. From the \refname command I guess that you are using the article class (or one that is based on it). For your purpose you have to modify the thebibliography environment which is also used when creating the reference list with BibTeX. To do so, add the lines below to your preamble.

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\makeatletter
\renewenvironment{thebibliography}[1]{%
%     \section*{\refname}%
%      \@mkboth{\MakeUppercase\refname}{\MakeUppercase\refname}%
      \list{\@biblabel{\@arabic\c@enumiv}}%
           {\settowidth\labelwidth{\@biblabel{#1}}%
            \leftmargin\labelwidth
            \advance\leftmargin\labelsep
            \@openbib@code
            \usecounter{enumiv}%
            \let\p@enumiv\@empty
            \renewcommand\theenumiv{\@arabic\c@enumiv}}%
      \sloppy
      \clubpenalty4000
      \@clubpenalty \clubpenalty
      \widowpenalty4000%
      \sfcode`\.\@m}
     {\def\@noitemerr
       {\@latex@warning{Empty `thebibliography' environment}}%
      \endlist}
\makeatother

This code block is taken from the original »article.cls« file. The commented lines become superfluous in this case.


Best regards
Thorsten

[verbunk]

Hey Thorsten,

Thx for the reply! Yes, I'm using article.cls and I was looking for this block of code (even though I didn't know it then). If I want to permanently make this change how would I go about doing that? I have tried to edit article.cls (and save under a different name) then re-index using mktexslr but it doesn't work. I get many compile-time errors.

-J

[localghost]

As an alternative you could put this code into a small package of your own and save that into the local TDS tree.

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%%
%% This is file `mods.sty'
%% -------------------------------------------------------------------------
\NeedsTeXFormat{LaTeX2e}[1994/12/01]
\ProvidesPackage{mods}[2010/02/28 v0.1 Some modifications]
\renewenvironment{thebibliography}[1]{%
%     \section*{\refname}%
%      \@mkboth{\MakeUppercase\refname}{\MakeUppercase\refname}%
      \list{\@biblabel{\@arabic\c@enumiv}}%
           {\settowidth\labelwidth{\@biblabel{#1}}%
            \leftmargin\labelwidth
            \advance\leftmargin\labelsep
            \@openbib@code
            \usecounter{enumiv}%
            \let\p@enumiv\@empty
            \renewcommand\theenumiv{\@arabic\c@enumiv}}%
      \sloppy
      \clubpenalty4000
      \@clubpenalty \clubpenalty
      \widowpenalty4000%
      \sfcode`\.\@m}
     {\def\@noitemerr
       {\@latex@warning{Empty `thebibliography' environment}}%
      \endlist}
%%
%% End of file `mods.sty'.

Save this code as »mods.sty« and put it where the LaTeX system can find it. The MiKTeX Manual has more information about local directory trees [1]. I'm not very familiar with this system so that is all I can advice.

[1] MiKTeX 2.8 Manual