sectioningspacing
I am trying to define the spacing between the section name and section title in latex to get something like this . How can I do it?
Also how can I define the margin and all at the first page to get the margin of the title of the paper from the top followed by the authors like this.
This adjusts the space for all section headings, and also for sub(sub)sections to 1cm:
\makeatletter
\renewcommand*{\@seccntformat}[1]{\csname the#1\endcsname\hspace{1cm}}
\makeatother
You can modify this redefinition as you desire. It works with KOMA-Script classes as well, as I notice your koma-script tag.
As has been pointed out in the comments, changing the appearance of a journal template is discouraged. A journal wants to have a consistent look.
If you are absolutely sure you want to change something, you can do some kind of a hack (Dr. Christian Hupfer pointed it out). In the example below, i introduced some positive space to get the text away from the title; using negative space you get the text closer to the title.
\documentclass[10pt,conference]{IEEEtran}
\title{Some Title\vspace{6em}}
\author{}
\usepackage{blindtext}
\begin{document}
\maketitle
\begin{abstract}
\blindtext
\end{abstract}
\blindtext[2]
\end{document}
If you want to know more about changing the apppearance of titles of own documents, have a look at Customize a titlepage.
Best Answer
The distance is defined (in the standard classes and so those that load them) by
\@seccntformat, whose usual definition isSo the space is a quad (1em) in the current font. If you want a normal interword space, put the following magic in your preamble: