Page Layout ⇒ Headers for the Bibliography

[jakob]

Hi,
i am new to Latex (and to this forum). I still hope that the post is adequate since i searched the web for the whole day and couldnt find a solution to my problem (as simple as it might be in the end).

i use miktex 2.9 and write on texniccenter.
for my thesis, i use the package natbib for the bibliography (with bibtex) and fancyhydr for headers and footers. my problem is that i cannot change the style of the headers for the bibliography. more concrete, its uppercase and i want lowercase (i know, sounds trivial. i do it with

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\markboth{chapter}{}

for the other chapters).

i already tried

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%\renewcommand\bibsection{\subsection{\refname}}

to get rid of the bibliography header completely but if i do that i get the header from the previous section (or it screws up things completely).

i tried to write a minimal example, however its probably not as minimalistic as it could be (i included so many references since the headers are only on the second page):

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\documentclass[a4paper, 12pt]{book}

\usepackage[T1]{fontenc}
\usepackage[utf8]{inputenc} %utf8?? versus latin1 wie abgespeichert wird. oder so.
\usepackage[ngerman, english]{babel} % hyphenation also trennung
\usepackage{fancyhdr} % headings and footers. 
\usepackage[square]{natbib} %citations
\usepackage[pdftex,colorlinks,linkcolor=blue,citecolor=blue,backref]{hyperref} % cite hyperlinks w/o pdfx

\begin{document}

\pagestyle{fancy}
\renewcommand{\chaptermark}[1]{\markboth{#1}{}} %only chaptername, fancyhydr page 10. 1
\renewcommand{\chaptername}{} %no "chapter"
\renewcommand{\sectionmark}[1]{\markright{#1}{}} 
\fancyfoot{} %clear foot
\fancyfoot[LE,RO]{\thepage}
\fancypagestyle{plain}{ %
	\fancyhf{} %clear all header and footer fields on pagestyle plain for chapter titles
	\fancyfoot[LE,RO]{\thepage} %s
	\renewcommand{\headrulewidth}{0pt} %no ruler first chapter page 
	}

\pagestyle{fancy}
\tableofcontents \markboth{Contents}{} %fuer no uppercase
\chapter{iwantniceheaders}
text \citep{bannister_kouzarides_2011, avery_1944}
\cleardoublepage
more citations \citep{bernstein_2007, bernstein_2005, bonasio_2010, brink_1958, cairns_2009, carlson_2004, dekker_2008, feinberg_2004, fuks_buergers_2000, goldberg_2007, goll_bestor_2005, helge_witek_2008}


\renewcommand\bibname{References} %change bibliography into References
\renewcommand{\bibfont}{\small}
\bibliographystyle{plainnat}
\bibliography{lit}
\addcontentsline{toc}{chapter}{References}
\end{document}

i also attached the pdf file how it looks for me. the actual problem are the headers on the last page.

thanks for any help...

[Jojoba86]

Hey Jakob,

First a disclaimer, I'm also new to LaTeX. However, I've been wrestling with the same problem today (!), so here is my extremely ugly way of doing it.

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\fancyhf{}
\fancyhead[CO]{\slshape \rightmark}
\fancyhead[CE]{\slshape \leftmark}
\fancyfoot[C]{\thepage}
\addtolength{\headheight}{0.5pt}

\include{Chapter1/chapter1}
\include{Chapter2/chapter2}
\include{Chapter3/chapter3}
\include{Chapter4/chapter4}
\include{Conclusions/conclusions}

\appendix
\include{AppendixA/appendixa}
\include{AppendixB/appendixb}
\cleardoublepage

%\backmatter % book mode only

\fancyhf{}
\fancyhead[C]{\textit{Nomenclature}}
\fancyfoot[C]{\thepage}
\addtolength{\headheight}{0.5pt}

\include{Nomenclature/nomenclature}
\printnomenclature  %% Print the nomenclature
\cleardoublepage

\fancyhf{}
\fancyhead[C]{\textit{Bibliography}}
\fancyfoot[C]{\thepage}
\addtolength{\headheight}{0.5pt}

\bibliographystyle{thesis-custom}
\bibliography{yourbibfilehere} % References file

I do the same thing with the stuff at the start, as I find the contents header otherwise also comes out as "CONTENTS". My thesis does not need to shout at me! I hope someone else can provide a more elegant answer.

Hope this helps and makes sense, I've shown you what I did which may be a little different to what you need. Good luck with your thesis! I stumbled across this post when searching and thought it was a case of this, before I saw the date!

[Stefan Kottwitz]

Hi Jakob,

welcome to the board!

You could use \nouppercase in the headings commands, such as

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\fancyhf{}
\fancyhead[LE]{\nouppercase{\leftmark}}
\fancyhead[RO]{\nouppercase{\rightmark}}

Stefan

[Jojoba86]

Hi Stefan,

That's a much more elegant solution than what I posted, thanks .

In what I posted I have a Nomenclature section just before the Bibliography, but if I don't change the header before in the way I posted it takes the name of the chapter and section before it.

Do you know how I can change it to display the same way as the contents does?

If not I can always leave my ugly bodge in!

Thanks,
Ian

[jakob]

Hi Stefan,

thanks for the warm welcome and thanks even more for the solution, works perfect for me.

Ian, here is what i did for the bib section, maybe it helps:

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\renewcommand\bibname{References} %change bibliography into References
\renewcommand{\bibfont}{\small}
\fancyhf{}
\fancyfoot[LE,RO]{\thepage}
\fancyhead[LE]{\nouppercase{\textit{\leftmark}}}
\fancyhead[RO]{\nouppercase{\textit{\rightmark}}}
\bibliographystyle{plainnat}
\bibliography{your bib files}
\addcontentsline{toc}{chapter}{References}