General ⇒ Remove blank page before bibliography chapter

[madiga01]

Hi,

I'm reasonably new to latex and have just about finished my honours thesis using it. Just one thing holding me back, I want the bibliography to be called references and to be a chapter. Therefore I used \renewcommand{\bibname}{\chapter{References}}. However for some reason this causes a blank page to be inserted before the references. This does not occur before other chapters. I would prefer it if there were no blank page. A minimal working example is given. I have tried \nopagebreak to no avail. I'm not sure if it has any effect, but I'm using pdflatex in MikTex 2.8. Any help would be great.
Thanks.

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\documentclass{report}
\begin{document}
\renewcommand{\bibname}{\chapter{References}}
\chapter{a chapter}
\chapter{another chapter}
there is no blank page between this chapter and the previous.
\begin{thebibliography}{9}

\bibitem{lamport94}
  Leslie Lamport,
  \emph{\LaTeX: A Document Preparation System}.
  Addison Wesley, Massachusetts,
  2nd Edition,
  1994.

\end{thebibliography}

\end{document}

[gmedina]

Hi,

a simple redefinition of the thebibliography environment (as defined in report.cls) will do the job:

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\documentclass{report}

\makeatletter
\renewcommand{\bibname}{References}
\renewenvironment{thebibliography}[1]
     {\chapter{\bibname}%
      \@mkboth{\MakeUppercase\bibname}{\MakeUppercase\bibname}%
      \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

\begin{document}

\chapter{a chapter}
\chapter{another chapter}
there is no blank page between this chapter and the previous.

\begin{thebibliography}{9}
\bibitem{lamport94}
  Leslie Lamport,
  \emph{\LaTeX: A Document Preparation System}.
  Addison Wesley, Massachusetts,
  2nd Edition,
  1994.
\end{thebibliography}

\end{document}

[madiga01]

Worked great, thanks a lot.

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