I'm writing a technical paper to an IEEE conference, which requires the paper pages to be numbered, from what I understood. I'm using \pagestyle{plain}
, which seems to work only from page 2 and on. The number on page 1 is not shown. Here is a minimal example:
\documentclass[10pt, conference, compsocconf, letterpaper]{IEEEtran}
\pagestyle{plain}
\usepackage[numbers]{natbib}
\begin{document}
\title {Paper title\\[-3.0ex]}
\maketitle
text
\clearpage
text
\clearpage
text
\end{document}
How can I make the page number appear in all pages, including page 1?
Another question, to those familiar with the IEEEtran template: Is the page number 1 actually supposed to appear on the first page, as I'm suspecting?
Best Answer
I would recommend against customizing the layout if you want to submit this to a conference. Adding
\thispagestyle{plain}
will indeed show the page number at the bottom, but if you look at the documentation you will find that page numbers are omitted in conference mode. Removing the\\[-3.0ex]
after the title is also a good idea (try adding\IEEEspecialpapernotice{(Invited Paper)}
and you'll see why).