LaTeX Multiple authors in a two-column article

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I m kind of new to LaTeX and I am having a bit of a problem    I am using a twocolumn layout for my article  There are four authors involved with different affiliations  and I am trying to list all of them under the title so they span the entire width of the page  all on the same level   It should be similar to this                     Article Title  auth1FN auth1LN     2      3    auth4FN auth4LN  department                       department    school                           school   email edu                        email edu        Abstract                                                                                                                                                                                                 Currently I have something along the lines    documentclass 10pt twocolumn  article   usepackage multicol    begin document    begin multicols  2   title Article Title   author      First Last       Department       school       email edu    and     First Last              date    maketitle  end multicols    begin abstract       end abstract    section Introduction        end document    The problem is that the authors are not displayed all on the same level  instead I get the first three next to each other  followed by the last one underneath   Is there way to achieve what I want  Also if possible  how can I customize the font of the affiliations  to be smaller and in italic

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What about using a tabular inside  author    just like in IEEE macros    documentclass article   begin document   title Hello  World   author   begin tabular  t  c   extracolsep 8em  c   I  M  Author   amp  M  Y  Coauthor    My Department  amp  Coauthor Department     My Institute  amp  Coauthor Institute    email  address  amp  email  address  end tabular     maketitle      end document    This will produce two columns authors with any documentclass   Results

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I put together a little test here    documentclass 10pt twocolumn  article    title Article Title   author      First Author       Department       school       email edu    and     Second Author       Department       school       email edu      and     Third Author       Department       school       email edu      and     Fourth Author       Department       school       email edu    date  today    begin document    maketitle   begin abstract   ldots  end abstract    section Introduction   ldots   end document    Things to note  the title  author and date fields are declared before  begin document    Also  the multicol package is likely unnecessary in this case since you have declared twocolumn in the document class   This example puts all four authors on the same line  but if your authors have longer names  departments or emails  this might cause it to flow over onto another line   You might be able to change the font sizes around a little bit to make things fit   This could be done by doing something like   small First Author    Here s a more detailed article on  LaTeX font sizes   https   engineering purdue edu ECN Support KB Docs LaTeXChangingTheFont  To italicize you can use   it First Name  or  textit First Name    Be careful though  if the document is meant for publication often times journals or conference proceedings have their own formatting guidelines so font size trickery might not be allowed

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