I'm writing my thesis as a report
document using TeXShop (pdflatex
and bibtex
) and want the bibliography to get its own section number and appear in the table of contents. Here's what I've tried so far and the problems arising:
\addcontentsline{toc}{section}{References}
Does not add the section number, not in the toc and naturally not in the section title.
\cleardoublepage
\renewcommand*{\bibname}{\section{References}}
\bibliographystyle{plain}
\bibliography{bibliography}
Error: ! Incomplete \iffalse; all text was ignored after line 1.
\cleardoublepage
\section{References}
\renewcommand*{\bibname}{}
\bibliographystyle{plain}
\bibliography{bibliography}
The only problem this leaves is that this starts the actual bibliography on the next page after it inserts 2.5 References. Otherwise I would be happy with this solution. How can I solve this issue?
Best Answer
Preliminary remark: In the report class, the bibliography will by default be typeset as an unnumbered chapter. If I understand correctly, you do not only want the bibliography to be numbered, but also "downgraded" to a section.
One solution is to selectively change the definition of
\thebibliography
. Add the following to your preamble:In the main document body, just use
I left out
\cleardoublepage
for the sake of consistency (sections do not automatically start a new page).