Add a new empty page

Question

I have a .tex file which is like my main,

\documentclass[spanish]{article}           
\usepackage{times}                               
\usepackage{amsmath}
\usepackage{graphicx}
\usepackage[activeacute,spanish]{babel}
\usepackage{epsfig}
\usepackage[T1]{fontenc}
\usepackage[utf8]{inputenc}
\usepackage{url}
\usepackage{amsmath,amsthm,amsfonts}
\usepackage{programsp}
\usepackage{graphicx}    
\usepackage{listings}
\usepackage{color}
\definecolor{name}{rgb}{0.5,0.5,0.5}    
\usepackage{pdflscape}

\newcommand{\decel}[4]{\langle#1, #2, #3, #4 \rangle}
\newcommand{\tod}{\rightarrow}
\newcommand{\llor}{\vee}

\newtheorem{Example}{Example}\newtheorem{Definition}{Definition}
\newtheorem{Algoritmo}{Algoritmo}

\normalbaroutside

\begin{document}
%%The text
\input{section}
\input{references}
\end{document}

However after a page of information like my name, and school I want an empty page, I am doing:

\newpage
\thispagestyle{empty}
\mbox{}

But this does not work. How do I change it so it works?

Answer 1

\newpage\null\thispagestyle{empty}\newpage

gives an empty page. \null is defined as \hbox{}. This is needed because TeX doesn't create a pagebreak if there is nothing on the page. You can define an own command:

\newcommand*\NewPage{\newpage\null\thispagestyle{empty}\newpage}

Answer 2

\cleardoublepage may also be of help, it brings you to the next available odd page, given the document is typeset in the twoside mode (default in the standard book class, for instance).

Answer 3

article class has titlepage option which prints title, author and date on its own page and starts text on second page. book class print a title page and start chapters on right-hand pages leaving and empty page after title page. report class does the same with the twoside option.

Answer 4

This might be one of the blind ways to achieve a blank page, but I guess it works just fine in all cases. Just add the following line at the end of text after which you need a blank page

\chapter*{} \thispagestyle{empty} \addtocounter{page}{-1}