[Tex/LaTex] Add a (foot)note in the bibliography

bibliographiesfootnotesnotes

I would like to add a footnote, or any other kind of note, to my bibliography. I have references from 2 different .bibtex files, and I need to make a distinction between the two. Currently, I put a * in the Author's name to mark the difference. Now, I would like to add a footnote, or any other note, to mark that the * indicates the difference.

Example:

\bibliography{file1, file2}
\footnote{*: Different reference}
\bibliographystyle{plain}

When I add this, it creates an entirely new page, before or after my bibliography. This is not what I want. Could anybody help me with this?

I am using documentclass article.

Best Answer

With the KOMA-Script class scrartcl you have a command \setbibpreamble{...} to set a text before your bibliography starts.

Please see the following MWE:

\RequirePackage{filecontents}        % loading package filecontents
% writing file \jobname.bib, for example mb-bibtex.bib.
\begin{filecontents*}{\jobname1.bib}
@Book{companion,
  author    = {Goossens, Michel and Mittelbach, Frank and Samarin, Alexander},
  title     = {The LaTeX Companion},
  edition   = {1},
  publisher = {Addison-Wesley},
  location  = {Reading, Mass.},
  year       = {1994}
}
\end{filecontents*}

\begin{filecontents*}{\jobname2.bib}
@Book{adams,
  title     = {The Restaurant at the End of the Universe},
  author    = {Douglas Adams},
  series    = {The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy},
  publisher = {Pan Macmillan},
  year      = {1980}
}
\end{filecontents*}


\documentclass{scrartcl}
\usepackage{ragged2e}                % pretty bib preamble
\usepackage[numbers]{natbib}         % bibliography style
\usepackage[colorlinks]{hyperref}    % better urls in bibliography

\begin{document}
Test of bibliography: 
The \LaTeX{} companion~\cite{companion}, the funny book of 
Adams~\cite{adams}. 
\nocite{*}  % print all bib entrys in bibliography 

\bibliographystyle{plainnat}  % needs package natbib
\setbibpreamble{\justifying\noindent The asterix marks ... \par\bigskip\RaggedRight} 
\bibliography{\jobname1,\jobname2}    % uses \jobname1.bib, according to \jobname.tex
\end{document}

resulting in:

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As you're "on a deadline", switching to biblatex is somewhat risky. Instead, use multibib as shown in the following MWE (it works with the unsrt style). Optionally, use the resetlabels package option.

Note: Unless you're using tools like latexmk, compile the example with

(pdf)latex <filename>
bibtex <filename>
bibtex further
(pdf)latex <filename>
(pdf)latex <filename>

using the command line (standard compiling routines of editors like TeXnicCenter won't do).

\documentclass{report}

\usepackage[resetlabels]{multibib}
\newcites{further}{Further Reading}

\usepackage{etoolbox}
\makeatletter
\newcommand{\sectionbiblio}{%
  \patchcmd{\std@thebibliography}{\chapter*}{\section*}{}{}
}
\makeatother

\usepackage{filecontents}

\begin{filecontents}{biblio.bib}
@misc{A01,
  author = {Author, A.},
  year = {2001},
  title = {Alpha},
}
@misc{B02,
  author = {Buthor, B.},
  year = {2002},
  title = {Bravo},
}
@misc{C03,
  author = {Cuthor, C.},
  year = {2003},
  title = {Charlie},
}
\end{filecontents}

\begin{document}

Some text \cite{A01,B02}.

\nocitefurther{C03}

\bibliographystyle{unsrt}
\bibliography{biblio}

\sectionbiblio

\bibliographystylefurther{unsrt}
\bibliographyfurther{biblio}

\end{document}

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[Tex/LaTex] Fancy header in bibliography

Please have a look to this complete MWE (package filecontentsis used to include a example Bib file in the MWE, \jobname is a placeholder for the name of your tex file (\jobname.tex)):

\RequirePackage{filecontents}
\begin{filecontents*}{\jobname.bib}
@Book{companion,
  author    = {Goossens, Michel and Mittelbach, Frank and Samarin, Alexander},
  title     = {The LaTeX Companion},
  edition   = {1},
  publisher = {Addison-Wesley},
  location  = {Reading, Mass.},
  year      = {1994},
}
@Book{adams,
  title     = {The Restaurant at the End of the Universe},
  author    = {Douglas Adams},
  series    = {The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy},
  publisher = {Pan Macmillan},
  year      = {1980},
}
\end{filecontents*}
\documentclass{book}
\usepackage[latin9]{inputenc}
\usepackage{fancyhdr}
\usepackage{lipsum}
\usepackage{hyperref}

\pagestyle{fancy}
\renewcommand{\subsectionmark}[1]{\markright{ #1}}
\renewcommand{\sectionmark}[1]{\markright{ #1}}
\renewcommand{\chaptermark}[1]{\markright{ #1}}

\rfoot{}
\cfoot{}
\fancyhead[LO,RE]{\thesubsection \rightmark}
\fancyhead[RO,LE]{\thepage}
\renewcommand {\headrulewidth}{0pt}
\renewcommand {\footrulewidth}{0pt}

\setcounter{secnumdepth}{3}
\setcounter{tocdepth}{3}

\begin{document}

\chapter{Some chapter}

\section{Section I}
\lipsum[1-8]

\subsection{Subsection for this section}
\lipsum[1-2]

\pagestyle{plain}
\subsection{Another subsection}
\lipsum[1-2]
\nocite{*}

\cleardoublepage % This is new !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
\fancypagestyle{plain}{% new plain style
  \fancyhf{}% Clear header/footer
  \fancyhead[R]{Test}% Right header
  \fancyfoot[L]{Name Firstname - v1.0 \\  Date}% Left footer
  \fancyfoot[R]{\thepage}% Right footer
}
\pagestyle{plain}
\phantomsection
\addcontentsline{toc}{chapter}{\bibname}
\bibliographystyle{unsrt}
\bibliography{\jobname}
\end{document}

See to line 56. I redefine style plain (see the difference to your style). So you get the first page of chapter `Bibliography with header and footer too. But let me remark it is not a good typography ...

Please see that you don't need bibwhen calling your bibliography (line 66).

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