[Tex/LaTex] Format IEEE Tran Itemizethanks

Question

I am writing a paper using IEEE Tran (bare_jrnl_compsoc). When I added the following code I have a blank page in the beginning.

\author{Md~Osman~Gani, Taskina~Fayezeen, Sheikh~Iqbal~Ahamed,
    Richard~J.~Povinelli, Roger~O.~Smith, Muhammad~Arif, and~Ahmed~J.~Kattan}
    % <-this % stops a space
\IEEEcompsocitemizethanks{\IEEEcompsocthanksitem M. O. Gani, T. Fayezeen,and S. I. Ahamed are with the Department of Mathematics, Statistics, and Computer Science, Marquette University, Milwaukee, WI, USA 53233.\protect\\
E-mail: md.gani@mu.edu, taskina.fayezeen@mu.edu, sheikh.ahamed@mu.edu}
\IEEEcompsocitemizethanks{\IEEEcompsocthanksitem R. J. Povinelli is with the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Marquette University, Milwaukee, WI, USA 53233.\protect\\
E-mail: richard.povinelli@mu.edu}

\thanks {Manuscript received April 25, 2016; revised August 26, 2016.}
% The paper headers
\markboth{IEEE Transaction on Mobile Computing, ~Vol.~14, No.~8, August~2016}%
{Shell \MakeLowercase{\textit{et al.}}: Bare Demo of IEEEtran.cls for Computer Society Journals}

I have the following output and the article starts from the 2nd page.

First Page:

Second Page:

Would you please let me know what am I doing wrong or how to fix it?

Answer 1

The problem is due to using \IEEEcompsocitemizethanks twice.

Try the following -

\IEEEcompsocitemizethanks{\IEEEcompsocthanksitem <Author 1> 
                      \IEEEcompsocthanksitem <Author2>}