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You can define a title for your document using \title{} and then create the title itself using \maketitle . You can also add other information such as the author(s) and the date, e.g. Note the use of \today to automatically insert the date you created the document. Of course you can just write a date if you prefer!

The \maketitle command generates a title on a separate title page - except in the article style, where the title normally goes at the top of the first page. Information used to produce the title is obtained from the following declarations, which should precede the \maketitle command.

You can define a title for your document using \title{} and then create the title itself using \maketitle . You can also add other information such as the author(s) and the date, e.g. Note the use of \today to automatically insert the date you created the document. Of course you can just write a date if you prefer!

Alignment. If you want to center some text just use \centering . If you want to align it differently you can use the environment \raggedleft for right-alignment and \raggedright for left-alignment.

\documentclass{} The first command in any document. Used to specify what type of document is being made. Some common arguments are article (common for scientific journals), book, IEEEtran (for IEEE transaction format), slides, beamer (for presentations).

\maketitle In the topmatter of your article you need to include the command \maketitle immediately before the\begin{abstract} command if you are using the LaTeX document class or immediately after the \begin{abstract} command if you are using the AmS-LaTeX document class amsart.

The \author command declares the author(s), where names is a list of authors separated by \and commands. Use \\ to separate lines within a single author's entry -- for example, to give the author's institution or address.