Bibliography change the page numbering style

Question

I am using the book class, so the page numbering is in the corners of the document. When calling the \bibliography command, LaTeX creates a page with the standard numbering (centered, at the bottom) and then switches back to the book numbering for the rest of the bibliography pages.

What is happening here, how do I fix this?

Answer 1

The titlesec package with the pagestyles option lets you define different styles and assign them to 'normal' pages with \pagestyle{<style>} or just for the chapter pages with \assignpagestyle{\chapter}{<style>}.

Since you are using the book class, you can define the header and the footer for even and odd sides independently. For example:

\usepackage[pagestyles]{titlesec}

\newpagestyle{main}{
 \headrule \footrule
 \sethead[][][\chaptertitle] %even
         {\sectiontitle}{}{} %odd
 \setfoot[\thepage][][] %even
         {}{}{\thepage} %odd
}

\newpagestyle{chap}{
 \footrule
 \setfoot[\thepage][][]
         {}{}{\thepage}
}

And then:

\pagestyle{main}
\assignpagestyle{\chapter}{chap}

Answer 2

If I understand your setup correctly, you want the first page of every chapter-level unit, whether numbered or unnumbered, to have no page number at all -- neither at the bottom center of a page nor in the header line.

You haven't indicated how you've achieved this look for the other chapter-level units, but one way of achieving this look globally, i.e., for the entire document, would be to insert the instructions

\makeatletter
\let\ps@plain\ps@empty
\pagestyle{plain}
\makeatletter

in the preamble. These instructions "let" the plain page style (which prints a page number centered at the bottom of the page) to the empty page style. I think you can guess what the main characteristic of the empty page style is...