Using natbib package, in the References section, the header is now written in capitals

Question

I have a thesis written in LaTeX. I've just switched over to natbib as it offered some nice commands but I'm starting to run into some trouble. This one is minor I guess, but I have headers, with the chapter name and page number on. They are implemented in the .cls file like so:

\def \@oddhead{\normalfont \rmfamily \slshape \hfill \leftmark \hfill \thepage}% writes chapter (not sec) at top.

for a normal page, and

\def \ps@chapHeadings{\def \@oddhead{\hfill \textit{\thepage}}}

for a new chapter page.

Now the reference pages have the headings written all capitals. I don't like this as it's inconsistent with the way the rest of the thesis is done.

Does any one know how to sort it?

The chapter name is written in \leftmark, which is probably made \MakeUppercase{...} (or \uppercase) somewhere. You do not show this code, but I would suspect removing it would remove the capatilization. — Werner, Sep 08 '11 at 15:41

Marco Daniel · Accepted Answer · 2011-09-08T16:56:39.853

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Add the following lines to your preamble:

\makeatletter
\renewcommand\bibsection{%
      \chapter*{\bibname\@mkboth{\bibname}{\bibname}}}
\makeatother

You should use biblatex instead of natbib. It provides the same commands but it is more flexible.

Here a full working example and it works well:

\documentclass{book}
\usepackage{lipsum}
\usepackage{natbib}
\usepackage{filecontents}
\begin{filecontents*}{\jobname.bib}
@book{test,
author={John Smith},
title={TITLE},
year={2011},
publisher={\lipsum\lipsum},
}
\end{filecontents*}
\makeatletter
\def\@oddhead{\normalfont \rmfamily \slshape \hfill \leftmark \hfill \thepage}%
\def\@evenhead{\normalfont \rmfamily \slshape \hfill  \thepage \hfill \rightmark}
 \renewcommand\bibsection{%
      \chapter*{\bibname\@mkboth{\bibname}{\bibname}}}
\makeatother
\begin{document}

\nocite{test}
\bibliography{\jobname.bib}
\bibliographystyle{plainnat}
\end{document}

Here a small extension to list the references in the table of contents:

\makeatletter
%not numbered
 \renewcommand\bibsection{%
      \chapter*{\bibname\@mkboth{\bibname}{\bibname}}
      \addcontentsline{toc}{chapter}{\bibname}%
      }
%numbered
% \renewcommand\bibsection{%
%      \chapter{\bibname}\@mkboth{\bibname}{\bibname}
%      }
\makeatother

edited Sep 08 '11 at 16:56

answered Sep 08 '11 at 15:38

Marco Daniel

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@Werner: Now you can edit my post ;-) – Marco Daniel Sep 08 '11 at 15:38
This doesn't appear to work right. It replaces the heading with "ReferencesmkbothReferencesReferences" and then write "Conclusions" for the header, which is the previous chapter title. – aghsmith Sep 08 '11 at 15:48
I tried biblatex, but it didn't seem to work properly. I have a 253 page document. It threw up abotu 120 errors with unhelpful error messages and told me that most of my bibtex references had problems with them (warnings) – aghsmith Sep 08 '11 at 15:49
@aghsmith: I edited my post. Normally biblatex can simple replaced [What do to to switch to `biblatex](http://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/5091/what-to-do-to-switch-to-biblatex). – Marco Daniel Sep 08 '11 at 16:03
Well done sir, some fine hackery. Actually it might have been the \makeatletter command that I kind of knew about... I also added this, which i found on another site, to put references in the contents: \let\oldbibsection\bibsection \renewcommand{\bibsection}{\oldbibsection\addcontentsline{toc}{part}{References}} I just added it after, I'm sure it could have been combined some how though. – aghsmith Sep 08 '11 at 16:40
@aghsmith: You can also load the package tocbibind: usepackage[notoc]{tocbibind}. Another solution you can find in my edited post (in few minutes) – Marco Daniel Sep 08 '11 at 16:43
A question about this code: Should the first of the two \hfill commands in each of the \@xhead re-definitions be eliminated? Separately, is it a good idea to set the page numbers in \slshape? – Mico Sep 08 '11 at 16:59
@Mico: The definition of \@ohead is taken from your questions. There the page numbers are also slanted. – Marco Daniel Sep 08 '11 at 17:06
@Marco: Just to clarify: I am not the OP of this question; I believe aghsmith is that person... All I did was to take your code and run it. That's when I noticed the bizarre look of the header lines caused by the surplus \hfill instruction. – Mico Sep 08 '11 at 17:22
@Mico: Oh Sorry. It was a mistake. – Marco Daniel Sep 08 '11 at 18:02

score 0 · Answer 2 · answered Oct 14 '19 at 11:38

In case you want to remove the header entirely (e.g. because you do not use headers in the rest of the file), just add

\renewcommand\bibsection{}

to the preamble.

This should work in all templates working with natbib, such as iopart (IOP) for example.

Using natbib package, in the References section, the header is now written in capitals

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