I am currently writing my honours thesis.
The following is a MWE of what I have:
\documentclass[11 pt]{article}
\usepackage[margin = 2.54 cm]{geometry}
\usepackage[doublespacing]{setspace}
\usepackage{parskip}
\begin{document}
\pagestyle{headings}
\section{Motivation}
Blah blah blah.
\newpage
More blah blah blah.
\end{document}
Currently, all of my page numbers appear at the top-right of each page.
However, the guidelines from my university on page numbers are as follows:
"The page number for the first page of each chapter, as well as preliminaries, should appear at the bottom of the page. For the rest of the pages, the page number should appear at the top-right hand corner (2 cm from the top, 2.5 cm from the right)."
Thus, I would like the page number with the page starting the section "Motivation" to appear at the bottom-center of the page. Of course, this should hold for the start of all other sections too but for all other pages, they should adopt the "headings" page style. In particular, if Page 1 is the page with "blah blah blah", then that page number should be at the bottom of the page and centered. If Page 2 is the page with "More blah blah blah", then that page number should be at the top-right of the page.
How can I do this? For example, is there a pre-set style that I can use already?
Any suggestions will be greatly appreciated :)
\pagestyle{headings}
in your preamble and switch toreport
instead ofarticle
because only then you will be able to have chapters.fancyhdr
package.\documentclass[11 pt]{report} \pagestyle{headings} \begin{document} \chapter{Motivation} Blah. \newpage More blah. \end{document}
gives (despite the spacing) what is described in your guidelines. Probably it is possible to do this also for sections, but I don't know that right away. Maybe you want to have a look at tex.stackexchange.com/a/444269/237192.