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I just managed to switch from using BibTeX to biblatex with the biber backend. My references now appear how I want. However I have two new issues.

1) How do I change "Bibliography" to references? The old \renewcommand{\bibname}{References} does nothing.

2) How do I make the Bibliography appear in my Table of Contents because it now doesn't when using \printbibliography as per biblatex. Is it just a case of doing the \addcontentsline{toc}{chapter}{References}? Or is there a more subtle method?

lockstep
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Alex
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  • There is an easy answer (see \defbibheading in the biblatex manual), but it depends on what sectional level your bibliography heading needs to be. Is it the equivalent of a chapter or section (or something else). – jon Aug 14 '12 at 18:49
  • @jon Actually there are some predefined headings that use the correct (for the respective class) sectioning unit. – lockstep Aug 14 '12 at 18:57
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    @lockstep -- Indeed, but wouldn't you need to use references instead of bibliography in your \DefineBibliographyStrings if the class used was article (or the article option was used in memoir)? My comment was meant mainly to bring out whether the looked-for answer was expecting to put the bibliography entry at a specific level in the ToC (e.g., sometimes books have the bibliography listed as a 'sectional' division rather than as equivalent to a chapter). – jon Aug 14 '12 at 19:15
  • @jon That's correct -- I was assuming that the OP, as he talked about his redefinition of \bibname not working, was using a class that features \bibname (and not \refname). – lockstep Aug 14 '12 at 19:17
  • @lockstep -- Ah, point taken. I guess he is looking for a 'chapter'-level entry as well. (I was thinking about the answer too generally....) – jon Aug 14 '12 at 19:23
  • possible duplicate of Section added by \addcontentsline on the wrong page – Marco Daniel Aug 14 '12 at 19:23
  • @MarcoDaniel You're indeed right with regard to question 2, but not with regard to no. 1. (Which, OTOH, shows the wisdom of the one-question-at-a-time rule.) – lockstep Aug 14 '12 at 19:29

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See sections 3.6.7, 3.8, and 4.9.2.1 of the biblatex manual. In the following example, I'm assuming that you a) use a class that features \bibname (i.e., one with the \chapter sectioning command) b) don't want to number your bibliography chapter.

\documentclass{report}

\usepackage{biblatex}

\DefineBibliographyStrings{english}{%
  bibliography = {References},
}

\usepackage{filecontents}

\begin{filecontents}{\jobname.bib}
@misc{A01,
  author = {Author, A.},
  year = {2001},
  title = {Alpha},
}
\end{filecontents}

\addbibresource{\jobname.bib}

\begin{document}

\tableofcontents

\chapter{First}

Some text \autocite{A01}.

\printbibliography[heading=bibintoc]

\end{document}

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lockstep
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  • Will give this a whirl chaps! Looks like it will solve my problem! Thanks very much! – Alex Aug 14 '12 at 20:29
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    For those who just want to include the bibliography in the ToC, the critical line here is \printbibliography[heading=bibintoc]. – Cerran Mar 05 '14 at 10:09
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    I'm trying the opposite \printbibliography[heading=nobibintoc], but getting an error, can't find info on this... – PatrickT Jun 23 '18 at 07:28
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Though the problem is solved, here is my alternative solution for biblatex.

\printbibliography[heading=bibintoc,title={References}].

The title would override the section title.

Based on lockstep's codes, My solution would be

\documentclass{report}
\usepackage{biblatex}

\usepackage{filecontents}
\begin{filecontents}{\jobname.bib}
@misc{A01,
  author = {Author, A.},
  year = {2001},
  title = {Alpha},
}
\end{filecontents}

\addbibresource{\jobname.bib}

\begin{document}
\tableofcontents
\chapter{First}

Some text \autocite{A01}.

\printbibliography[heading=bibintoc,title={References}]

\end{document}

enter image description here

Tawei
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  • What I also want a number (or capital letter) in front of "References"? I mean it continues the numbering. Here "2 References". – skan Oct 27 '20 at 19:03
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    @skan. replace the "heading=bibintoc" with "heading=bibnumbered" in "printbibliography" command should work. – Tawei Oct 29 '20 at 19:59
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Another solution (if you use the \printbibheading command in order to title your bibliography section) is: \printbibheading[heading=bibintoc]

Edit:

Here is the case, if you want to divide your bibliography in groups, and put also a heading \printbibheading[heading=bibintoc] \printbibliography[type=book,heading=subbibliography,title={Books}] \printbibliography[type=article,heading=subbibliography,title={Articles}]

Fredy Gabriel Ramírez V.
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