General ⇒ bibunits | Two "bibliography levels" in one document?

[nvx]

Hello,

In a document I am required to put bibliography before appendices (personally I do not see the point of this, but such is the directive). This means I will have to generate a third bibliography for one of the appendices in addition to two other bibliographies already present. However, those two mentioned bibliographies should have chapters-like headers whereas bibliography for the appendix should ideally have a section-like header, i.e.:

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1 Introduction                     1
...
8 Last Chapter Name              113
Bibliography A                   125
...
Appendix A Abcabc                131
  A.1 First section              136
  ...
  Appendix Bibliography          148
Appendix B Xyzxyz                151
...
Author's Publications            177

I looked into the bibunits' documentation, but according to what I understood it cannot be done using the package, since one selects "bibliography level" once in the document preamble e.g. by

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\usepackage[sectionbib]{bibunits}

Is there anything else I could do to get two different bibliography levels in one document without manually creating two PDFs and then joining them using Acrobat/PDFCreator/...?

Thanks in advance for any help or hints.

nvx

[kaiserkarl13]

It sounds like the chapterbib package may help you here. I used that once to do something similar. If all else fails, you can redefine some commands like so:

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\let\thebibliography\thechapterbibliography
\usepackage[sectionbib]{bibunits}
...
\let\thesectionbibliography\thebibliography
\let\thebibliography\thechapterbibliography
\bibliography{blah} % produces chapter-style bibliography
\let\thebibliography\thesectionbibliography
\bibliography{blah} % produces section-style bibliography

I don't claim the above commands to work; they're just to give you an idea of what you might do.

What I actually did for my own project was to write a new style file that I only used for my dissertation, which defined a new environment called \theglobalbibliography. That was the one for the whole document, and \thebibliography got used for the individual chapters. I decided it was easier to implement with chapterbib than it was with bibunits, but either should work.

[nvx]

kaiserkarl13,

Thank you for your response, I'll try what you've suggested.

nvx

[nvx]

Well, here is how I managed to solve the issue. Unfortunately, the code kaiserkarl13 suggested did not work (it produced errors, probably due to bibunits being loaded), so I further searched the net and found that if

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\def\chapter*#1{}

is put before \putbib[...] command (for chapter-level bibliography defined by using \usepackage{bibunits}), it removes bibliography heading. Thus I was able to generate my own headings (either regular - numbered - ones or "starred" ones) at any level I needed (chapter/section) and then flush the actual bibliography entries right under them.

nvx