[Tex/LaTex] How to break up a bibliography into separately numbered sections

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There are at least two use cases where one might want to list items in a bibliography under separate subsections with different numbering conventions.

a CV, where you'd like to list journal papers, conference papers, workshop papers, etc under different categories (often needed in academic settings);
an annotated bibliography, where you might need different sections for different topics being covered.

What I'd like is a method that allows me to specify names of subsections, and for an added bonus, different numbering conventions for each subsection, and then will list \cites in different sections as per my wishes.

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For your use cases, I tend to use the bibentry package. As the focus is not really on providing a reference mechanism (i.e. \cite's), but actually on listing the content of these bibliographical entries, this package works really nice.

Using LaTeX lists you can style your output in whatever way you want, and the \bibentry command allows you to typeset the content of a bibliography entry wherever you want in your document.

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You could give the bibunits package a try. Assuming that (i) you wish to use the plain bibliography style in the main part of the document and the unsrt style in the appendix area and (ii) all bib entries are contained in a file named mybib.bib, the bibunits-relevant structure of your LaTeX file might look something like this:

\documentclass{book}
\usepackage{bibunits}
\begin{document}

\mainmatter

\begin{bibunit}[plain]
... % with various citation commands strewn in
\putbib[mybib]
\end{bibunit}

\appendix % or whatever demarcation command you need to employ

\begin{bibunit}[unsrt]
... % with more citation commands
\putbib[mybib]
\end{bibunit}

\end{document}

If you only intend to use one bibliography style (say, plain) throughout, you could place the command

 \defaultbibliographystyle{plain}

in the preamble, freeing you from having to mention it in every \begin{bibunit} command. (Actually, plain is the default style in case nothing else is specified.)

Note that bibunits creates a separate .aux file for each bibunit you create, named bu1.aux, bu2.aux, etc. This means that you'll need to run BibTeX separately on each of these aux files.

[Tex/LaTex] natbib bibliography/references section SPLIT into sections

I take it that all or your bib entries are in a single file, right? If so, have a look at the multibib package. It performs its job by providing separate citation commands to distinguish citations in different bibliographies. It is compatible with the natbib package. In the preamble, you'd issue a series of \newcites commands, such as

\newcites{conf}{Conference and workshop proceedings}
\newcites{journ}{Journal articles}
\newcites{ietf}{Internet Engineering Task Force Request For Comments (IETF RFCs)}
\newcites{apis}{Application Programming Interfaces (APIs)}

In the body of the document, you would use commands such as \citetconf{ref1} and \citepietf{ref2}, where ref1 would be a document to be listed under the heading "Conference and workshop proceedings" and ref2 would be a document to be listed under the heading "Internet Engineering Task Force Request For Comments (IETF RFCs)".

Assuming the bib entries are in a file called myReferences.bib, the bibliographies would be generated by providing commands such as

\bibliographyconf{myReferences}
\bibliographyjourn{myReferences}

and so on. The package even lets you assign different bibliography styles to each of the separate bibliographies.

Incidentally, if your bib entries are already located in different bib files (organized by type), you may want to take a look at the bibtopic package as well.

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