Text Formatting ⇒ Custom author list in title

[albart]

Dear list,

for a publication in a BMC journal, I need to solve the following problem.

My article has several authors, which I introduce in the when making the title in the \@author variable and which I separate with \and. In the title, Latex then automatically places a comma between the authors to separate them. In the example there is no comma between these authors because I do not use the bmc_article class.

I would like to change the separation between the authors as follows. Between the authors exept the last I would like to write a comma, between the before-last and the last author I would like to write 'and'. I can remove the \and command and simply write a comma or an 'and' but this is the less beautiful solution and I look forward to other solutions.

A small example is:

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\documentclass{article}

\begin{document}
\title{This is a small example}
\author{First author \and second author \and third author}
\maketitle

\end{document}

Thanks in advance,

Albart Coster