BMC Journal template only showing first author, editor requires all

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I recently submitted my first paper to BMC Bioinformatics journal and had formatted everything according to their author guidelines, using their own template (Overleaf, Their own page). Then, my submission got declined because the pdf produced by their own template doesn't show all author affiliations on the title page, but only the first author's affiliation. The rest of the affiliations is shown after the main part of the manuscript. They somehow require all authors' affiliations to be shown on the title page, even though their own template does not allow this. I asked the assistant editor twice how to resolve this problem, but got no answer for a month and counting.

My question is: can I somehow tweak the template so it shows all authors on the first page or should I just reformat my paper to use the article class?

Thanks in advance for your help/advice!

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Using BioMed_Central_Tex_Template_v1.06 provided by BioMedCentral LaTeX template

(1) For one column add before \end{fmbox}%

% ********************************** % added <<<<<
\begin{artnotes}  
\printaddress{aff1}

\printaddress{aff2}
\end{artnotes}
% **********************************

\end{fmbox}% comment this for two column layout

(2) For two column add before %\end{fmbox}}% comment this for two

% **********************************  % added <<<<<
\begin{artnotes}
    \printaddress{aff1}
    
    \printaddress{aff2}
\end{artnotes}
% **********************************

%\end{fmbox}% comment this for two column layout

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[Tex/LaTex] How to add author an affiliation and their email address and all left aligned

For a single application it's rather pointless defining an appropriate \maketitle command.

\documentclass[a4paper]{article}

\newcommand{\affilmark}[1]{\rlap{\textsuperscript{\itshape#1}}}
\usepackage{lipsum}

\begin{document}

\vspace*{3ex}
\begin{center}\LARGE
  The title of this paper, long enough to break over two lines
\end{center}
\vspace*{2ex}
\begin{flushleft}\large
A. N. Author\affilmark{a},\quad
B. P. Another\affilmark{b},\quad
C. Q. Third\affilmark{c}\\[2ex]
\normalsize\itshape
\textsuperscript{a,b}\,Department of Cuisine, University of Nowhere\\
\textsuperscript{c}\,Department of Departmentalization, University of Somewhere\\[1ex]
\upshape Corresponding author's email: \texttt{A.N.Author@nowhere.edu}
\end{flushleft}
\vspace*{3ex}

\begin{abstract}
\lipsum[1-2]
\end{abstract}

\section{Introduction}
\lipsum
\end{document}

I would have also the title flush left.

[Tex/LaTex] Remove affiliation from author

The entire list of authors is stored in \AB@authlist, while the superscripted affiliations are provided by \textsuperscript (note the trailing space!). As such, you can use \printauthorlist:

\newcommand{\printauthorlist}{{%
  \expandafter\let\csname textsuperscript \endcsname\@gobble% Remove \textsuperscript 
  \AB@authlist}% Print list
}

It temporarily sets \textsuperscript to \@gobble, which just gobbles its argument (thereby removing the superscripted notation).

Here's a complete MWE:

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\documentclass{article}
\usepackage[noblocks]{authblk}% http://ctan.org/pkg/authblk
\usepackage{fancyhdr}% http://ctan.org/pkg/fancyhdr
\makeatletter
\newcommand{\printauthorlist}{{%
  \expandafter\let\csname textsuperscript \endcsname\@gobble% Remove \textsuperscript 
  \AB@authlist}% Print list
}
% Define \institutes command    
\def\@institutes{}
\renewcommand\@institutes{\AB@affillist}
%   HEADERS AND FOOTERS
\renewcommand{\headrulewidth}{0pt}% No header rule
\fancyfoot{}% Clear footer
\fancyfoot[R]{\printauthorlist}
\pagestyle{fancy}
\makeatother
\title{Title}
\author{author1}\author{author2}\affil{affil1}
\author{author3}\author{author4}\affil{affil2}
\begin{document}
\maketitle\thispagestyle{fancy}

This is some text.
\end{document}

You are required to use \csname textsuperscript \endcsname in order to capture the trailing space in the control sequence definition.

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