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8.24 thebibliography

Synopsis:

     \begin{thebibliography}{widest-label}
     \bibitem[label]{cite_key}
     ...
     \end{thebibliography}

The thebibliography environment produces a bibliography or reference list.

In the article class, this reference list is labelled “References”; in the report class, it is labelled “Bibliography”. You can change the label (in the standard classes) by redefining the command \refname. For instance, this eliminates it entirely:

     \renewcommand{\refname}{}

The mandatory widest-label argument is text that, when typeset, is as wide as the widest item label produced by the \bibitem commands. It is typically given as 9 for bibliographies with less than 10 references, 99 for ones with less than 100, etc.