Removing / Hiding Page Numbers from Latex document (Remove / Hide)

Getting rid of page numbers from a latex document is a tricky thing to do :) sometimes you do not want page numbers in your document but the document class or style file you are using puts page numbers...

many websites/manuals/blogs suggest the use of \thispagestyle{empty} after \maketitle tag to overwrite the style file and remove the page numbers. But some style files will still print the page numbers on all pages except the first one... if this is the case then add \pagestyle{empty} tag and the page numbers from all the pages will be removed :)... the code will look like

\maketitle
\thispagestyle{empty}
\pagestyle{empty}

this trick worked in my case where i was using ieeetr.cls as document class... i hope it works for other cases as well...

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The following things copied from comments section may also help (I thank the people who commented):

Manhoso said...

In my case using only the command \thispagestyle{empty} worked fine!

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Anonymous said...

Didn't work for me. Perhaps because of the custom header package I use.

Instead I use

\renewcommand\thepage{}

to get rid of page numbers.

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Anonymous said...

thank you anonymous, for me too worked in the scrreprt class just \renewcommand\thepage{}

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Luís de Sousa said...

That is a pretty radical solution, it not only removes the numbering, but also all the remanding style, such as headers and footers. To kill a fly you do not need a bazooka. Simply use \pagenumbering{gobble} to switch off page numbering.

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BibTeX and bibliography styles

A few bibliographic styles are:

1: ieeetr 2: unsrt 3: IEEE 4: ama 5: cj 6: nar 7: nature 8: phjcp 9: is-unsrt

10: plain 11: abbrv 12: acm 13: siam 14: jbact 15: amsplain 16: finplain 17: IEEEannot 18: is-abbrv

19: is-plain 20: annotation 21: plainyr 22: decsci 23: jtbnew 24: neuron 25: cell 26: jas99 27: abbrvnat

28: ametsoc 29: apalike 30: jqt1999 31: plainnat 32: jtb 33: humanbio 34: these 35: chicagoa 36: development

37: unsrtnat 38: amsalpha 39: alpha 40: annotate 41: is-alpha 42: wmaainf 43: alphanum 44: apasoft

If any of these styles is not found in latex they can be downloaded from http://www.tug.org/tex-archive/biblio/bibtex/contrib/. Each file will be of .bst extension. In order to use the style 'nar', you must have the file 'nar.bst' in your LaTeX directory, or in your current working directory, or anywhere where it is visible to LaTeX.

to see how are these styles rendered (i.e. how does a certain bib style look like?), please visit the following: http://www.cs.stir.ac.uk/~kjt/software/latex/showbst.html

Adapted from BibTeX and bibliography styles

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Hanging references in latex

If u have a long list fo references in one coloumn and 2nd column is empty or very unbalanced due to very few references, then do the following to get a balanced references page.

in bbl file write \vfill\eject before the reference which u intend to move to 2nd column (do this after running bibtex earlier). Do not run bibtex after this since it will overwrite ur bbl file and effect will not be seen. After writing the above command u only need to run latex command and then make dvi or pdf whatever u like...

LaTex: Fixing Wrong Figure Numbers

LaTex: Fixing Wrong Figure Numbers

The post is copied from: Terminally Incoherent

What I tell you right now may save you hours of extensive debugging, cursing under your breath, commenting out custom code dealing with figure layout and much frustration. Whenever you use figures, always (and I mean ALWAYS EVER FOREVER ALWAYS) put \caption first, and \label second like this:

\begin{figure}[htp]
\centering
\includegraphics{image.eps}
\caption{Some Image}
\label{fig:some-image}
\end{figure}

If you put the \label above \caption you will run into trouble when referencing figures inside subsections. In my case, the caption underneath the figure would say Fig. 4.2 but the output of \ref would be 4.3.10 because somehow it was picking up the section numbers wrong.

I had to submit the document today n all chapters except chapter 1 had \label above \caption n i was so *&^*&%^&$%* but i found on google search a blog Terminally Incoherent. It helped me n i m really thankful to the owner of the blog.

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