IEEEtran – How to Align Five Authors Properly in IEEEtran Document Class

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How do I align author names such that the first three authors appear in 3 column format and the last two in two column?

\author{\IEEEauthorblockN{1\textsuperscript{st} Given Name Surname}
\IEEEauthorblockA{\textit{dept. name of organization (of Aff.)} \\
\textit{name of organization (of Aff.)}\\
City, Country \\
email address}
\and
\IEEEauthorblockN{2\textsuperscript{nd} Given Name Surname}
\IEEEauthorblockA{\textit{dept. name of organization (of Aff.)} \\
\textit{name of organization (of Aff.)}\\
City, Country \\
email address}
\and
\IEEEauthorblockN{3\textsuperscript{rd} Given Name Surname}
\IEEEauthorblockA{\textit{dept. name of organization (of Aff.)} \\
\textit{name of organization (of Aff.)}\\
City, Country \\
email address}
\and
\IEEEauthorblockN{4\textsuperscript{th} Given Name Surname}
\IEEEauthorblockA{\textit{dept. name of organization (of Aff.)} \\
\textit{name of organization (of Aff.)}\\
City, Country \\
email address}
\and
\IEEEauthorblockN{5\textsuperscript{th} Given Name Surname}
\IEEEauthorblockA{\textit{dept. name of organization (of Aff.)} \\
\textit{name of organization (of Aff.)}\\
City, Country \\
email address}
}

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Best Answer

The construction of the author block is contained within an @IEEEauthorhalign environment that has \hfills on either end. This allows the author block to be centred in general. For multiple authors, each \and (in conference mode) closes the @IEEEauthorhalign environment, issues an \hfill and then opens @IEEEauthorhalign again.

In order to introduce a line break and have the author content still be aligned properly, I've defined a new command called \linebreakand. It does what every \and does, excepts introduces a \par and a new \hfill for the new line start.

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\documentclass[conference]{IEEEtran}

\title{A title}

\makeatletter
\newcommand{\linebreakand}{%
  \end{@IEEEauthorhalign}
  \hfill\mbox{}\par
  \mbox{}\hfill\begin{@IEEEauthorhalign}
}
\makeatother

\author{
  \IEEEauthorblockN{1\textsuperscript{st} Given Name Surname}
  \IEEEauthorblockA{\textit{dept. name of organization (of Aff.)} \\
    \textit{name of organization (of Aff.)}\\
    City, Country \\
    email address}
  \and
  \IEEEauthorblockN{2\textsuperscript{nd} Given Name Surname}
  \IEEEauthorblockA{\textit{dept. name of organization (of Aff.)} \\
    \textit{name of organization (of Aff.)}\\
    City, Country \\
    email address}
  \and
  \IEEEauthorblockN{3\textsuperscript{rd} Given Name Surname}
  \IEEEauthorblockA{\textit{dept. name of organization (of Aff.)} \\
    \textit{name of organization (of Aff.)}\\
    City, Country \\
    email address}
  \linebreakand % <------------- \and with a line-break
  \IEEEauthorblockN{4\textsuperscript{th} Given Name Surname}
  \IEEEauthorblockA{\textit{dept. name of organization (of Aff.)} \\
    \textit{name of organization (of Aff.)}\\
    City, Country \\
    email address}
  \and
  \IEEEauthorblockN{5\textsuperscript{th} Given Name Surname}
  \IEEEauthorblockA{\textit{dept. name of organization (of Aff.)} \\
    \textit{name of organization (of Aff.)}\\
    City, Country \\
    email address}
}

\begin{document}

\maketitle

\end{document}
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