\pagestyle{empty} on first page in LaTeX

If you use \pagestyle{empty}, but the first page is numbered anyway, you are probably using the \maketitle command too. The behaviour is not a bug but a feature. The standard LaTeX classes are written so that initial pages (pages containing a \maketitle, \part, or \chapter) have a different page style from the rest of the document; to achieve this, the commands internally issue \thispagestyle{plain}. This is usually not acceptable behaviour if the surrounding page style is 'empty'.

Possible workarounds include:

• Put \thispagestyle{empty} immediately after the \maketitle command, with no blank line between them.
• Use the fancyhdr or scrpage2 packages, which allow you to customise the style for initial pages independently of that for body pages.

  For example, use fancyhdr commands:

  \fancypagestyle{plain}{%
    \fancyhf{}%
    \renewcommand{\headrulewidth}{0pt}%
    \renewcommand{\footrulewidth}{0pt}%
  }
  

  and the "empty" page style (invoked by \chapter commands and title pages) will have no header or footer.
• If you are using either the memoir class or a KOMA-script class, use the techniques outlined for them in "no page numbers".

fancyhdr.sty

macros/latex/contrib/fancyhdr (gzipped tar, browse)

KOMA script bundle

macros/latex/contrib/koma-script (gzipped tar, browse)

memoir.cls

macros/latex/contrib/memoir (gzipped tar, browse)

nopageno.sty

macros/latex/contrib/carlisle/nopageno.sty

scrpage2.sty

Distributed as part of macros/latex/contrib/koma-script (gzipped tar, browse)

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