Bibliography and headers with titleps and biblatex

Question

I am using titleps to get custom headers, and biblatex for the bibliography. The headers look all right except when it comes to the bibliography, where a "REFERENCES" label appears in the header and footer. Here is a MWE:

\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{lipsum}
\usepackage{titleps}
\newpagestyle{fancy}{ 
\headrule
\sethead[\normalsize \thepage][][]
{Author}{Document}{\normalsize \thepage}
\setfoot[][][]{}{}{}
}
\usepackage{filecontents}
\begin{filecontents}{\jobname.bib}
@article{A2013,
author = {Author, A},
title = {A nice paper},
journal = {Journal},
year = {2013},
volume = {1},
pages = {1--2},
}
\end{filecontents}

\usepackage[style=numeric,backend=biber]{biblatex}
\addbibresource{\jobname.bib}

\begin{document}
\pagestyle{fancy}

\lipsum[1]
\cite{A2013}   
\clearpage

\printbibliography

\end{document}

And here is the output:

The left page is ok but not the right page. Where does the "REFERENCES" label come from?

Note that this does not happen if I use bibtex instead of biblatex for the bibliography, or fancyhdr instead of titleps to customize the headers. For instance, replacing lines 3-9 in the example with

\usepackage{fancyhdr}
\pagestyle{fancy}
\fancyhead{Document}
\fancyhead[L]{Author}
\fancyhead[R]{\normalsize \thepage}
\fancyfoot{}
\fancyfoot[C]{}
\renewcommand{\headrulewidth}{0.5pt}
\renewcommand{\footrulewidth}{0pt}

gives the expected output:

How can I obtain the same result with titleps and biblatex?

Answer 1

For some reasons, titleps reacts to \markboth commands in an apparently arbitrary way. You solve the issue by avoiding the \markboth: add

\defbibheading{bibliography}[\refname]{\section*{#1}}

to your preamble after having loaded biblatex.

---

Note that the usual definition for the default bib heading style is

\defbibheading{bibliography}[\refname]{%
  \section*{#1}%
  \markboth{\MakeUppercase{#1}}{\MakeUppercase{#1}}}

and we simply avoid issuing \markboth.

In the documentation of titleps there are two mentions of \markboth, saying that it should be avoided when using page styles defined with the package.