BibTeX, biblatex and biber ⇒ The word References - does not appear

[DbI]

I wrote an article for an Elsevier journal. Elsevier uses \documentclass{elsarticle}. This {elsarticle} is in TeXLive, which I have on my computer. I wrote bibliography (I have five items in bibliography) in usual manner. Like:

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\begin{thebibliography}{9}
\bibitem{dT13}
D. Tobias, The Function.... 2013
\bibitem{  }
.....
.....
.....
\end{thebibliography}
\end{document}

All the bibliography appeared correctly in the PDF file. however, there should have been the word
References
above the list of references.
But, this word did not appear in the PDF file.

Does anybody know what to do, that the word References would appear?

[Johannes_B]

I cannot remember to have ever seen the word references in an Elsevier article. The class takes care, that no section heading is printed.

[DbI]

In a sample article (for that Elsevier journal), there is the word References,as a title to bibliography.

[Stefan Kottwitz]

Hi Dbl,

you can simply write

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\section*{References}

\begin{thebibliography}{9}
...

Stefan

[DbI]

Thank you. I did as you suggested, and it worked like a charm!

I have to say that different publishing houses have different styles of \documentclass{article}. I had experience of writing an article in LaTeX for a different publishing house, and in that case, I did not need to do anything about the word References above the list of references. All I had to do in that case was to write

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\begin{thebibliography}{  }

and then to write all these \bibitem{  } things, and then to write
'
\end{thebibliography}
\end{document}

and the word References was appearing automatically!

That was my only experience before, so, when the word References did not appear automatically in my present case, I did not know what to do. Fortunately, I could get the answer to my question from you. Thank you again!

[Stefan Kottwitz]

No problem! We are glad to help.

Let us know if you got any LaTeX question.

Stefan