Text Formatting ⇒ Italicizing author list

[aanidaani]

Hello everyone. I've redefined the \maketitle command to fit the format of a journal, but I'm having difficulty getting LaTeX to italicize the \@author list.

Here is what the author list currently looks like. I would like just the names to be italicized.


And here is the code I've used to redefine the \maketitle command. Note that I have a \textbf{} command around the \@title and that works without a problem.

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\makeatletter
\renewcommand{\@maketitle}{
 \begin{flushleft}
  {\textbf{\@title} \par}
  \par\vspace{10pt}
  \textit{\@author}
 \end{flushleft}
 \par} \makeatother

Can anyone tell me what I'm doing wrong? Thanks!

[cgnieder]

Hi aanidaani,

Welcome to the LaTeX community!

Can anyone tell me what I'm doing wrong?

Your macro works:

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\documentclass{article}

\makeatletter
\renewcommand{\@maketitle}{%
  \begin{flushleft}
    \textbf{\@title}
    \par
    \vspace{10pt}
    \textit{\@author}
  \end{flushleft}
  \par
}
\makeatother

\author{Some cool author}
\title{An awesome title}

\begin{document}

\maketitle

\end{document}

The only thing I did was removing a superfluous \par and an unnecessary pair of braces and added some indentation.

This means you should prepare and post a minimal working example.

Regards

[aanidaani]

Thank you for the kind welcome!

I realized after staring at my code for a while that I was using the authblk package, which I think was overriding the formatting of the author list.

To solve the problem I defined each \author[*]{name} entry as being italic and that worked.