General ⇒ titlesec | Header for Bibliography

[olga30d]

Dear all,

I have a problem with a header in my 'References' chapter - it has the header of the previous chapter.
I wonder if I can redefine it manually?
I have seen several similar problems, but unfortunately I did not manage to sort it out.

Many thanks,
Olga

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%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%
\documentclass[11pt, oneside]{book}
\usepackage[pagestyles,raggedright]{titlesec}
\titleformat*{\section}{\LARGE\bfseries\rm} 
\titleformat*{\subsection}{\Large\bfseries\rm} 
\titleformat*{\subsubsection}{\large\bfseries\rm}
\newpagestyle{main}[\small\sffamily\rm]{
\headrule
\sethead{\thechapter\enspace\chaptertitle}{}{\thepage}} 
\begin{document}
\pagestyle{empty}
%some title
\pagestyle{main}
%\input{Chapter1} 
%\input{Chapter2} 
\bibliographystyle{apalike}  
\renewcommand\bibname{{References}}
\addcontentsline{toc}{chapter}{References}
\bibliography{MyReferences}  
\end{document}

[Stefan Kottwitz]

Hi Olga,

you could use \markboth, such as

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\cleardoublepage
\addcontentsline{toc}{chapter}{References}
\markboth{References}{References}
\bibliography{MyReferences}

Stefan

[olga30d]

Thanks Stefan,

I tried it in this order, but it did not work. Anything missing?
Many thanks,
Olga

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\bibliographystyle{apalike}
\cleardoublepage   
\addcontentsline{toc}{chapter}{References}   
\markboth{References}{References} 
\bibliography{MyReferences}  

[localghost]

You are already using the titlesec package. Just define a new page style with appropriate settings. The code below gives some inspiration.

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\begin{filecontents*}{\jobname.bib}
@BOOK{knuth84,
  author={Donald Ervin Knuth},
  title={The \TeX book},
  year={1984},
  publisher={Addison-Wesley}
}
@BOOK{lamport94,
  author={Leslie Lamport},
  title={\LaTeX\ -- A Document Preparation System},
  note={User's Guide and Reference Manual},
  year={1994},
  publisher={Addison-Wesley},
  edition={Second}
}
@BOOK{mitgoo04,
  author={Frank Mittelbach and Michel Goossens},
  title={The \LaTeX\ Companion},
  year={2004},
  publisher={Addison-Wesley},
  edition={Second}
}
@BOOK{goomit07,
  author={Michel Goossens and Frank Mittelbach and Sebastian Rahtz and Denis Roegel and Herbert Voss},
  title={The \LaTeX\ Graphics Companion},
  year={2007},
  publisher={Addison-Wesley},
  edition={Second}
}
\end{filecontents*}
\documentclass[11pt,oneside,english]{book}
\usepackage[T1]{fontenc}
\usepackage{babel}
\usepackage[pagestyles,raggedright]{titlesec}
\usepackage[nottoc]{tocbibind}
\usepackage{blindtext}

\renewcommand{\bibname}{References}

\titleformat*{\section}{\LARGE\bfseries\rmfamily}
\titleformat*{\subsection}{\Large\bfseries\rmfamily}
\titleformat*{\subsubsection}{\large\bfseries\rmfamily}

\newpagestyle{main}[\small\sffamily\rm]{%
  \headrule
  \sethead{\thechapter\enspace\chaptertitle}{}{\thepage}
}
\newpagestyle{back}[\small\sffamily\rm]{%
  \headrule
  \sethead{\chaptertitle}{}{\thepage}
}

\begin{document}
\pagestyle{main}
\blinddocument
\nocite{*}
\pagestyle{back}
\bibliographystyle{apalike} 
\bibliography{\jobname}
\newpage~
\end{document}

The same page style (named »front« for a more comprehensive view) is suggestive for the front matter part with ToC, LoF and LoT.

As always, the blindtext package is only for creating dummy text, thus it is not part of the solution. The tocbibind package generates an entry for the bibliography in ToC and is also not part of the solution but just a useful addition.


Thorsten

[olga30d]

Thanks Thorsten,

I definitely got some inspiration (as well as useful packages). After all, I had to move

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\renewcommand{\bibname}{References}

from preamble to the body of the document.
But I still could not get appropriate header, so I cheated a bit and used

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\newpagestyle{back}[\small\sffamily\rm]{%
  \headrule
  \sethead{References}{}{\thepage}
}  

Not sure why it does not work, I am using

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\usepackage[toc,titletoc,header]{appendix}

for my Appendices, maybe it clashes somehow.

So, I have solved my problem, maybe not as neat but it works. Thanks again to you and Stefan.

[localghost]

Indeed not a neat solution. Did you test my suggestions? And if so, where are the problems? For me it works just fine.

[olga30d]

I have tried your suggestions (well not exactly your example, but incorporated in my code) - and for some reason it had no effect on headers. To find out why, you probably need to analyse it (see attached).

Thanks!

[localghost]

The provided file is useless because it reads external files that are not present to others [1]. Reduce the problem to a true minimal example. But I guess that you better want to stay with your solution (because it's the shorter way).

[1] View topic: Avoidable mistakes

[olga30d]

True, but I deliberately wanted to keep my file as it is and I was hoping that you would be able to pick up any inconsistencies just from looking at it.

Thanks for your help,

Olga

[localghost]

True, but I deliberately wanted to keep my file as it is and I was hoping that you would be able to pick up any inconsistencies just from looking at it. […]

Just looking at code is rarely successful. Testing is much more promising. And usually when building a MWE you should work with a copy of your document.