General ⇒ unnumbering bibliography

[sabiha]

Hello,

I am writing my thesis using WinEdt. All the entries in my bibliography are numbered. I don't want to have numbers. Could anyone please tell me how to remove numbers form bibliography?

My second problem is that I want to have chapter names in full in table of contents but it is showing the short titles that appear in the header of respective chapters. What Should I do?

Regards,

Sabiha

[spiegboy]

Hi, mate

I am writing my thesis using WinEdt. All the entries in my bibliography are numbered. I don't want to have numbers. Could anyone please tell me how to remove numbers form bibliography?

change your bibliographystyle, you got plenty of options.

plain Standard BIBT EX style. Entries sorted alphabetically with numeric labels.
unsrt Standard BIBT EX style. Similar to plain, but entries are printed in order of
citation, rather than sorted. Numeric labels are used.
alpha Standard BIBT EX style. Similar to plain, but the labels of the entries are formed
from the author’s name and the year of publication.
abbrv Standard BIBT EX style. Similar to plain, but entries are more compact, since
first names, month, and journal names are abbreviated.
acm Alternative BIBTEX style, used for the journals of the Association for Comput-
ing Machinery. It has the author name (surname and first name) in small caps,

My second problem is that I want to have chapter names in full in table of contents but it is showing the short titles that appear in the header of respective chapters. What Should I do?

dont use short title

i assume your original text code is sth like

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\chapter[short title]{full title}

just delete the short title.

Regards

[sabiha]

Thanks for your reply.

I want to show short title in the header. What else can be done to keep this while showing full titles in table of contents?

Regards.

[spiegboy]

that's tricky, let me think

[Juanjo]

I want to show short title in the header. What else can be done to keep this while showing full titles in table of contents?

I assume that you are using the book class. In such a case, you can redefine \@chapter, an internal command invoked by \chapter. Try the following example:

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\documentclass{book}

\makeatletter
\def\@chapter[#1]#2{%
   \ifnum \c@secnumdepth >\m@ne
      \if@mainmatter
         \refstepcounter{chapter}%
         \typeout{\@chapapp\space\thechapter.}%
         \addcontentsline{toc}{chapter}%
             {\protect\numberline{\thechapter}#2}%
      \else
         \addcontentsline{toc}{chapter}{#2}%
      \fi
   \else
      \addcontentsline{toc}{chapter}{#2}%
   \fi
   \chaptermark{#1}%
   \addtocontents{lof}{\protect\addvspace{10\p@}}%
   \addtocontents{lot}{\protect\addvspace{10\p@}}%
   \if@twocolumn
      \@topnewpage[\@makechapterhead{#2}]%
   \else
      \@makechapterhead{#2}%
      \@afterheading
   \fi}
\makeatother

\usepackage{lipsum}

\begin{document}

\frontmatter
\tableofcontents

\mainmatter

\chapter[Short title of first chapter]{Full title of first chapter}
\lipsum[1-10]

\chapter[Short title of second chapter]{Full title of second chapter}
\lipsum[1-10]

\end{document}

In this code, the \lipsum command, defined in the lipsum package, only serves to generate blind text. If you compare the above definition of \@chapter with the original one (given in book.cls), you will notice that the only difference is the replacement of #1 by #2 in the \addcontentsline commands. In this way, the text which goes to the TOC is that in the mandatory argument of \chapter, as you require.

Concerning the bibliography, you will find useful the natbib package, mainly oriented to unnumbered bibliographies and author-year citations.

[sabiha]

That worked straight away!
Thank a lot!

Best regards,