How to change "References" to "Bibliography"
Szabolcs
How can one change the section title that \begin{thebibliography} ...
\end{thebibliography} produces from "References" to "Bibliography" when
using the article class?
Lars Madsen
\renewcommand\refname{Bibliography}
if you use babel then either place it after \begin{document} or use
\addto\captionsenglish{
\renewcommand\refname{Bibliography}
}
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Peter Flynn
> This might sound like a stupid question but I couldn't figure it out ...
Did you try searching the FAQ?
> How can one change the section title that \begin{thebibliography} ...
> \end{thebibliography} produces from "References" to "Bibliography" when
> using the article class?
http://www.tex.ac.uk/cgi-bin/texfaq2html?label=fixnam
///Peter
Szabolcs
> Szabolcs wrote:
>> This might sound like a stupid question but I couldn't figure it out ...
>>
>> How can one change the section title that \begin{thebibliography} ...
>> \end{thebibliography} produces from "References" to "Bibliography"
>> when using the article class?
>
> \renewcommand\refname{Bibliography}
>
> if you use babel then either place it after \begin{document} or use
>
> \addto\captionsenglish{
> \renewcommand\refname{Bibliography}
> }
>
Thank you very much for all the replies!!
Lars Madsen
> \renewcommand{\bibliographyname}{Bibliography}. If you are using
> Babel, you'll have to \addto\extras<yourlanguage>{\def
> \bibliographyname}{Bibliography}.
>
> In any event, it may be a good thing for you to read the Babel
> documentation to see how to do redefine other strings for your
> particular language.
>
> Good luck,
>
> Luis.
>
\bibliographyname ???
Luis Rivera
Lars Madsen wrote:
>
> \bibliographyname ???
>
Nope. You were right. I was replying in a hurry and from memory; and
my memory failed me badly. My apologies.
Luis.
Luis Rivera
> Luis Rivera wrote:
>
> > Redefine the \bibliographyname macro to "Bibliography":
> > \renewcommand{\bibliographyname}{Bibliography}. If you are using
> > Babel, you'll have to \addto\extras<yourlanguage>{\def
> > \bibliographyname}{Bibliography}.
>
In fact, the above command is wrong: extras are other stuff; I meant
to say
\addto\captions<yourlanguage>{\def\refname{Bibliography}}
Actually, I don't know if for this particular case is it the same to
say \def or \renewcommand... AFAIK, the latest \def overrides the
previous one, isn't it?
Apologies again,
Luis.
Lars Madsen
it does not matter wheter one uses \renew... or \def in this case.
Does any one know why the article class uses \refname and, say, book,
used \bibname?
Robin Fairbairns
>Does any one know why the article class uses \refname and, say, book,
>used \bibname?
hysterical raisins[*]. it was done that way when this mechanism was
introduced into latex 2.09 in ca.1992, and no-one complained then so
it's remained that way ever since, for compatibility purposes.
if one was starting again...
[*] aka historical reasons; it occurs to me this joke may not be
common away from my environment.
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Lars Madsen
no problem, here.
I added a list of all the standard names controlled by babel and mentioned that
there is a difference between article and book-like classes.
I was just woundering
ndan...@gmail.com
Donald Arseneau
> Does any one know why the article class uses \refname and, say, book, used
> \bibname?
Because it is more typical for ariticles to have "References" and for
whole books to have "Bibliography". The commands \refname and
\bibname are support for language switching, and not general "hooks"
for document design, although they can be abused that way.
The expectation(*) was always that there is a documentstyle/class for
any particular journal or book project that uses the correct words
for titles.
(*) I'm surmising this.
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