Page Layout ⇒ Title page lay-out for oxford bulletin of Economics and Stat

[rschoona]

Hi,

I recently started to use Latex. I have a question about the lay-out for the title page. Because I want to make a submission to the Oxford Bulletin of Economics and Statistics I need to change the style of my title page (2 authors). Can someone help me with the code for the title page needed for Oxford Bulletin. Because I don't find it.

(the title page needs to look this way: http://www.blackwellpublishing.com/pdf/obes_ss.pdf)

I hope someone can help me, because it is the style for 2 authors that I need and that causes problems.

Thanks in advance

[Frits]

Multiple author can be implemented as:

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\title{Article Title}
\author{
    Adam Smith\\
    Department of Economics\\
    ...
    (e-mail: \texttt{a.smith@economics.ox.ac.uk})
  \and
    Robert Jones\\
    ...
}
\date{}
\maketitle

[frabjous]

It would be better if we had a minimal working example of the code you have for your titlepage so far (including all relevant packages), so we don't waste our time suggesting something that's incompatible with your approach to the rest of the titlepage, or the document class or packages, etc., you're using.

My first suggestion would be something like this:

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ADAM SMITH\textdagger\ and ROBERT JONES\textdaggerdbl \\ 
\bigskip 
\textdagger \textit{Department of Economics, Manor Road
Building, Oxford. OX1 3UQ. UK\\
(e-mail: a.smith@economics.ox.ac.uk)}\\
\textdaggerdbl \textit{Department of Economics, University of Keele,
Keele, Staffs. UK\\
(e-mail: r.jones@keele.ac.uk)}

If you're trying to work this in as the result of the author part of \maketitle, then maybe something along the lines of:

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\usepackage{titling}

\preauthor{\flushleft}
\postauthor{}
\author{%
    ADAM SMITH\textdagger\ and ROBERT JONES\textdaggerdbl \\ 
    \bigskip 
    \textdagger \textit{Department of Economics, Manor Road
    Building, Oxford. OX1 3UQ. UK\\
    (e-mail: a.smith@economics.ox.ac.uk)}\\
    \textdaggerdbl \textit{Department of Economics, University of Keele,
    Keele, Staffs. UK\\
    (e-mail: r.jones@keele.ac.uk)}
}

But without knowing more about your document and what the other requirements are, I don't really know.

[rschoona]

Thank you already for the answers. But I have still some difficulties, How can I make that my title is centered to the left (because I need two lines), and how can I do the same for my abstract. Here is what I already have:


\usepackage{titling}

\title{Fiscal policy and TFP in the OECD: a non-stationary panel approach\thanks{}}
\preauthor{\flushleft}
\postauthor{}
\author{RUBEN SCHOONACKERS\textdagger\ and FREDDY HEYLEN\textdaggerdbl \\
\bigskip
\textdagger \textit{Department of Social Economics, Ghent University,\\
Tweekerkenstraat 2, 9000 Ghent, Belgium\\
(e-mail: ruben.schoonackers@ugent.be)}\\
\textdaggerdbl \textit{Department of Social Economics, Ghent University\\
(e-mail: freddy.heylen@ugent.be)}
}

[frabjous]

That is not a minimal working example. Please read the link I posted earlier, and also the Post on Avoidable Mistakes. Probably wouldn't hurt to look at the Board Rules too since they require putting code in code boxes.


I don't understand the phrase "centered to the left". Do you want it centered, or to the left? (Or do you mean that with the two lines, the longer of the two lines should be flush against the left margin, but the shorter line centered with relative to the longer one? That could be done, I suppose, but wouldn't you have to manually break it?)

If you just mean flush left, then you do it more or less the same way I did it for the authors' names:

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\pretitle{\flushleft\bfseries}
\posttitle{}
\title{Fiscal policy and TFP in the OECD: a non-stationary panel approach\thanks{}}

(I threw in "\bfseries" since the title is apparently supposed to be in bold from what I can tell from your link.)

I have no hope of trying to answer your question about the abstract without knowing what document class, etc., you're using. Again, I would need a minimal working example.