A simple way to work around this problem is to simply define the header for either the entire document or just the pages of interest as an empty header. Here is a MWE of how I did this:
\usepackage{fancyhdr}\pagestyle{fancy}\fancyhead[RE,RO]{}\fancyhead[LE,LO]{}I simply placed these lines in the preamble and successfully removed the reference headers.
