Apply empty style to the entire bibliography

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I would like the entire bibliography to have an empty page style in my document (which means remove the headers and page numbers).

I used the command \renewcommand{\bibsetup}{\thispagestyle{empty}\pagestyle{empty}} from Remove page number from the first page of bibliography which successfully removes the style from the first and all subsequent pages of the bibliography except for the last page.

I created a minimal working example that produces the following output:

As you can see, the first page of the references has no style. However, the second page (which in this case is the last one) has the page number at the bottom.

Note that this happens also i) if I have more than just two bibliography pages, and ii) for the intermediate bibliographies at the end of each of my chapters.

I am writing a thesis (memoir class) and am using the fancyhdr package, in case this is relevant.

Any suggestion on what might be going on? Thanks a lot!

\documentclass{article}
\usepackage[utf8]{inputenc}
\usepackage[
    backend=biber,
    style=ieee,
    citestyle=numeric-comp,
    backrefstyle = none
]{biblatex}

\renewcommand{\bibsetup}{\thispagestyle{empty}\pagestyle{empty}}

\addbibresource{bibli.bib}

\title{Minimal working example}

\begin{document}

\section{Introduction}
coordinates~\cite{li20143d,pavllo20193d}, predictions~\cite{pavlakos2016coarse,varol2018bodynet}, models~\cite{tome2017lifting} encoding~\cite{kanazawa2018end,bogo2016keep} information~\cite{zhou2017towards,habibie2019wild} training~\cite{rhodin2018learning,qiu2019cross}

a \cite{andriluka20142d,lin2014microsoft} markers \cite{sigal2010humaneva,h36m_pami} multi \cite{Joo_2015_ICCV,mehta2017monocular} cameras~\cite{shu2016learning} free~\cite{chen2016synthesizing,varol2017learning,tome2019xr} camera~\cite{taylor2000reconstruction,bourdev2009poselets,pavlakos2018ordinal,ronchi2018s} camera \cite{rhodin2018unsupervised} point \cite{sermanet2017time,mitra2019multiview}


\newpage
\printbibliography[heading=bibintoc]

\end{document}

It's not immediately obvious why pages after the first carry a page number. This should have been suppressed by \pagestyle{empty}. Try adding an extra line between \newpage and \printbibliography. If that doesn't work, debugging will have to be undertaken in article.cls and biblatex.sty. — barbara beeton, Mar 28 '20 at 02:34

score 5 · Answer 1 · answered Mar 28 '20 at 03:01

5

I would just separate the heading from the bibliography and put your page style commands in between:

\documentclass{memoir}
\usepackage[style=ieee, citestyle=numeric-comp, backrefstyle=none]{biblatex}
\addbibresource{biblatex-examples.bib}
\begin{document}
\tableofcontents
\nocite{*}
\printbibheading[heading=bibintoc]
\thispagestyle{empty}
\pagestyle{empty}
\printbibliography[heading=none]
\end{document}

answered Mar 28 '20 at 03:01

David Purton

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I think I saw an issue like this before, but I can't find it now. If I remember correctly, the problem basically was that \bibsetup is executed inside a group and that the last page takes its style from outside the group (as that is the style that is active at the end of the page, I presume). – moewe Mar 28 '20 at 06:16
@David Thanks for the great answer! It worked great for the final bibliography! However, the subheading bibs still have the number in the last page. I changed \printbibliography[heading=subbibliography] with \printbibheading[heading=subbibliography] \thispagestyle{empty} \pagestyle{empty} \printbibliography[heading=none], but it didn't work. Any suggestions? Thanks. – Matteo Mar 29 '20 at 22:17

Andrew Swann · Accepted Answer · 2020-03-28T16:14:46.750

This might be regarded as a fault with the standard bibliography environment in biblatex. In an article class what you are asking is no really appropriate as the bibliography is not designed to start on a separate page. But your problem persists in book and memoir, and the solution below works in all cases.
Namely, I patch (updated: better than previous redefining) the default biblatex default version of the bibliography environment to add a \clearpage efter the end of the bibliography's internal list environment.

\documentclass{book}

\usepackage[utf8]{inputenc}
\usepackage[
    backend=biber,
    style=ieee,
    citestyle=numeric-comp,
    backrefstyle = none
]{biblatex}

\renewcommand{\bibsetup}{\thispagestyle{empty}\pagestyle{empty}}

\addbibresource{biblatex-examples.bib}

\makeatletter
\patchcmd{\blx@endenv@bibliography}{\endlist}{\endlist\clearpage}{}{}
\makeatother

\title{Minimal working example}

\begin{document}

\section{Introduction}
\nocite{*}

\printbibliography[heading=bibintoc]

\end{document}

If you are in an article class, you will want to add \clearpage before \printbibliography

The definition of \defbibenvironment{bibliography} may depend on the style. With ieee or a numeric style the default environment looks a bit different from the stub in biblatex.sty. In particular the definition shown here removes the citation numbers from the bibliography, which is probably not desired. — moewe, Mar 28 '20 at 10:07
@AndrewSwann - This worked perfectly on both the subheading bibliography and the intoc bibliography. Thanks a lot! — Matteo, Mar 29 '20 at 22:18

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