I think this is done in latex. Here are a few pointers that might get you what you want. It seems there is more than one way to do it that depends on your setup and which packages you use. http://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/17445/how-can-i-change-the-references-to-reference-in-the-thebibliography-environm http://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/12597/renaming-the-bibliography-page-using-bibtex This worked for me: #+latex: \renewcommand{\refname}{Whatever floats your boat} John ----------------------------------- Professor John Kitchin Doherty Hall A207F Department of Chemical Engineering Carnegie Mellon University Pittsburgh, PA 15213 412-268-7803 @johnkitchin http://kitchingroup.cheme.cmu.edu On Mon, Feb 13, 2017 at 8:07 AM, Nikolai Stenfors < nikolai.stenfors@bahnhof.se> wrote: > When I export a text with references into pdf, the default > headline for the reference-chapter is "References". How do I change the > title/headline? A specific org-ref-variable? > -- > Nikolai Stenfors > > >