Latex Bibtex Bibliography without new Chapter

Question

I'd like Bibtex to not start a new page, when printing the references. Why? I am using the package quotchap to print those nice big numbers on the right site for each new chapter and I want the references too to have such a big number. Another way bould be to tell Bibtex simply to make the references a chapter, but I don't know how to do either of it.

Thanks a lot.

Answer 1

Reference (Bibtex) on the same page:

I suppose you are using a certain template? Because in the normal case, the references (using Bibtex) do not start automatically on a new page. An example of what I am using:

\bibliographystyle{acm}
\bibliography{References}

Also make sure that you have no \newpage or likewise commands right before your bibliography.

Changing references to separate chapter

If you use the report class instead of the article class Latex handles the references/bibliography as a chapter heading level, while in an article the heading is that of a section.

Changing the heading by hand to mimic a chapter heading

Of course it is not always possible to change the report class. In that case you are still not lost. You could change the specific reference heading by adding some code in the preamble. Therefore check this link.

Another possibility is to change the style of the numberless sections, using the titlesec package. Note that this also affects the title format of for example the table of contents. An example of how I did that in the past:

\usepackage{titlesec}

\titleformat{name=\section, **numberless**}                     
    {\Large\sf\raggedright}                 
    {}{0mm}                     
    {\MakeUppercase}                        
    [\titlerule]                            
\titlespacing*{name=\section, numberless}{0mm}{10mm}{10mm}