Editing LaTeX Dissertation Formatting Tips (section)

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Normally, a dissertation or other book-length project has a single bibliography at the end. So even though your articles will have their own bibliographies, you’ll want to consolidate them. Fortunately, LaTeX will do this be default. You’ll just need a single <code>\printbibliography</code> command after your last chapter.

To help show off all the work I did during my PhD that’s related to my dissertation project, I included some papers as appendices. Since these were stand-alone papers that weren’t really part of the dissertation, I printed separate bibliographies for each using the <code>\refsection</code> command. Putting an appendix in a separate <code>\refsection</code> makes <code>\printbibliography</code> print only the citations that were used within the appendix.

I didn’t bother creating a new <code>.bib</code> file for the dissertation. I just added symbolic links to the <code>.bib</code> files for my different articles to the project and used the <code>\addbibresource</code> command. I get a lot of <code>Duplicate entry key</code> warnings from <code>biblatex</code> this way, but it’s doesn’t affect the <code>.pdf</code> output.