[Tex/LaTex] Separate reference section in IEEE format

biblatexieeeconftwo-columnvertical alignment

IEEE paper format can be viewed here. In the last page, Reference starts with the end of Acknowledgement. I'm able to do this, used \balance before \printbibliography[title=References]. Now I want to add some tweak which is something like this: this

The main idea I want to get is: up to REFERENCE all texts are balanced. Then a fresh start of REFERENCE section on the same page.

MWE: somehow document is not balanced (lipsum never used before). Example is taken from here.

\documentclass[conference]{IEEEtran}

\hyphenation{op-tical net-works semi-conduc-tor}

\usepackage{tikz}
\usepackage{balance}

\usepackage[backend=biber,
    natbib=true,
    style=ieee,
    citestyle=numeric-comp,
    sorting=none,
    doi=false,
    isbn=false,
    url=true,
    mincitenames=1,
    maxcitenames=1,
    urldate=long,
]{biblatex}
\usepackage{lipsum}

\usepackage{filecontents}
\begin{filecontents*}{test.bib}

@inproceedings{zhu1,
  author =        {Benjamin Zhu and Kai Li and Hugo Patterson},
  booktitle =     {USENIX Conference on File and Storage Technologies
                   (FAST'08)},
  month =         {Feb},
  title =         {Avoiding the Disk Bottleneck in the {D}ata {D}omain
                   Deduplication File System},
  year =          {2008},
}
@article{zhu2,
  author =        {Benjamin Zhu and Kai Li and Hugo Patterson},
  booktitle =     {USENIX Conference on File and Storage Technologies
                   (FAST'08)},
  month =         {Feb},
  title =         {Avoiding the Disk Bottleneck in the {D}ata {D}omain
                   Deduplication File System},
  year =          {2008},
}
\end{filecontents*}


\addbibresource{test.bib}

\begin{document}

\title{Bare Demo of IEEEtran.cls\\ for IEEE Conferences}

\author{\IEEEauthorblockN{Michael Shell}}

\maketitle

\begin{abstract}
The abstract goes here.
\end{abstract}

\IEEEpeerreviewmaketitle

\section{Introduction}

This demo file is intended to serve as a ``starter file''
for IEEE conference papers produced under \LaTeX\ using
IEEEtran.cls version 1.8b and later.

\lipsum[2]

I wish you the best of success.

\subsection{Subsection Heading Here}
Subsection text here. Citations here \cite{zhu1}.
\lipsum[2]

\subsubsection{Subsubsection Heading Here}
Subsubsection text here \cite{zhu2}.
\lipsum[1]

\section{Conclusion}
The conclusion goes here.
\lipsum[1]

\section*{Acknowledgment}
The authors would like to thank...
\lipsum[1]

\balance
\printbibliography[title=References]

\end{document}

Best Answer

Using strip from cuted package I managed to get similar results. Though, manually I have to add two column environment.

\documentclass[conference]{IEEEtran}

\hyphenation{op-tical net-works semi-conduc-tor}

\usepackage{tikz}
\usepackage{cuted}
\usepackage{multicol}
\usepackage{balance}

\usepackage[backend=biber,
natbib=true,
style=ieee,
citestyle=numeric-comp,
sorting=none,
doi=false,
isbn=false,
url=true,
mincitenames=1,
maxcitenames=1,
urldate=long,
]{biblatex}
\usepackage{lipsum}

\usepackage{filecontents}
\begin{filecontents*}{test.bib}

@inproceedings{zhu1,
  author =        {Benjamin Zhu and Kai Li and Hugo Patterson},
  booktitle =     {USENIX Conference on File and Storage Technologies
               (FAST'08)},
  month =         {Feb},
  title =         {Avoiding the Disk Bottleneck in the {D}ata {D}omain
               Deduplication File System},
  year =          {2008},
}
@article{zhu2,
  author =        {Benjamin Zhu and Kai Li and Hugo Patterson},
  booktitle =     {USENIX Conference on File and Storage Technologies
               (FAST'08)},
  month =         {Feb},
  title =         {Avoiding the Disk Bottleneck in the {D}ata {D}omain
               Deduplication File System},
  year =          {2008},
}
\end{filecontents*}


\addbibresource{test.bib}

\begin{document}

\title{Bare Demo of IEEEtran.cls\\ for IEEE Conferences}

\author{\IEEEauthorblockN{Michael Shell}}

\maketitle

\begin{abstract}
The abstract goes here.
\end{abstract}

\IEEEpeerreviewmaketitle

\section{Introduction}

This demo file is intended to serve as a ``starter file''
for IEEE conference papers produced under \LaTeX\ using
IEEEtran.cls version 1.8b and later.

\lipsum[2]

I wish you the best of success.

\subsection{Subsection Heading Here}
Subsection text here. Citations here \cite{zhu1}.
\lipsum[2]

\subsubsection{Subsubsection Heading Here}
Subsubsection text here \cite{zhu2}.
\lipsum[1]

\section{Conclusion}
The conclusion goes here.
\lipsum[1]

\section*{Acknowledgment}
The authors would like to thank...
\lipsum[1]


\begin{strip}\leavevmode\kern15pt
\begin{multicols}{2}
    \printbibliography[title=References]
\end{multicols}
\end{strip}

\end{document}
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