[Tex/LaTex] Multiple authors with affiliations in ACL style

affiliationauthblk

I'm currently stuck at using a particular two column LaTeX style with multiple authors and two affiliations.

I want the author formatting to look like this:

The style file is the following: http://acl2015.org/files/acl2015.sty

Minimal example for using the style guide:

\documentclass[11pt]{article}
\usepackage{acl2015}
\usepackage{times}
\usepackage{url}
\usepackage{latexsym}

\title{My title}
\date{}

\begin{document}
\maketitle
\begin{abstract}
  ..
\end{abstract}

\section{Credits}
...

\end{document}

I tried to use authblk to insert multiple authors but there seems to an error which doesn't allow me to produce a pdf anymore.
To use authblk, I tried to use the code from https://tex.stackexchange.com/a/9598/8850

This results in the following code:

\documentclass[11pt]{article}
\usepackage{acl2015}
\usepackage{times}
\usepackage{url}
\usepackage{latexsym}
\usepackage{authblk}

\title{More than one Author with different Affiliations}
\author[*]{Author A}
\author[**]{Author B}
\author[*]{Author C}
\affil[*]{Department of Computer Science, \LaTeX\ University}
\affil[**]{Department of Mechanical Engineering, \LaTeX\ University}

\renewcommand\Authands{ and }
\date{}

\begin{document}
\maketitle
\begin{abstract}
  ..
\end{abstract}

\section{Credits}
...

\end{document}

Upon trying to compile the LaTeX code, I get the following error message:

("C:\Program Files\MiKTeX 2.9\tex\latex\psnfss\ot1ptm.fd")

! LaTeX Error: Something's wrong--perhaps a missing \item.

See the LaTeX manual or LaTeX Companion for explanation.
Type  H <return>  for immediate help.
 ...                                              

l.21 \maketitle

?

I guess there is a clash between the style file and authblk? I'm sorry for posting such a basic question, but I've wasted a couple of hours trying to get multiple affiliations and multiple authors running with this style.

(The code I posted above with separate the authors with commas. Is there a way to separate by a longer space, like in the image posted above?)

Best Answer

Try loading the authblk package before the acl2015 package.

Worked for me (I'm using acl2016 package and I was facing the same error you reported).

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[Tex/LaTex] Revtex 4.1 multiple affiliations

Works for me. I am using

Document Class: revtex4-1 2010/07/25/20:33:00 4.1r

which fixes a number of bugs in the affiliation code.

Testcase:

\documentclass[superscriptaddress]{revtex4-1}
\begin{document}
\author{J. T. Ripper}
\affiliation{Bethlem Royal Psychiatric Hospital}
\author{Bugs Bunny}
\affiliation{Looney Tunes}
\author{Daffy Duck}
\affiliation{Looney Tunes}
\affiliation{Warner Brothers}
\maketitle
\end{document}

Result: alt text

[Tex/LaTex] Author affiliations and date formatting

Here is a simple method to achieve this. We need to do the following:

Empty the macros \@setdate which prints the date in the title page.
Add a newly created macro (viz \@Setdate) to \enddoc@text which prints the affiliation at the end of the document.
Set the font style of affiliation to italic and font size to 8pt in the \@setaddresses macro which puts affiliation, current address and email at the end of the document using \enddoc@text hook.

These hacks are now added between \makeatletter and \makeatother in the sample amsart template given below:

%-----------------------------------------------------------------------
% Beginning of amsart.template
%-----------------------------------------------------------------------
%
%     AMS-LaTeX v.2 template for use with amsart
%
%     Remove any commented or uncommented macros you do not use.

\documentclass{amsart}

\usepackage{lipsum}

\newtheorem{theorem}{Theorem}[section]
\newtheorem{lemma}[theorem]{Lemma}

\theoremstyle{definition}
\newtheorem{definition}[theorem]{Definition}
\newtheorem{example}[theorem]{Example}
\newtheorem{xca}[theorem]{Exercise}

\theoremstyle{remark}
\newtheorem{remark}[theorem]{Remark}

\numberwithin{equation}{section}

\makeatletter
\let\@setdate\@empty
\def\date#1{\gdef\@Date{#1}}\let\@Date\@empty
\def\@Setdate{\datename\ \@Date\@addpunct.}
\def\enddoc@text{\ifx\@empty\@Setdate \else\par\addvspace\bigskipamount\indent%
  {\footnotesize\@Setdate}\fi
  \ifx\@empty\@translators \else\@settranslators\fi
  \ifx\@empty\addresses \else\@setaddresses\fi}
\def\@setaddresses{\par
  \nobreak \begingroup
\footnotesize
  \def\author##1{\nobreak\addvspace\bigskipamount}%
  \def\\{\unskip, \ignorespaces}%
  \interlinepenalty\@M
  \def\address##1##2{\begingroup
    \par\addvspace\bigskipamount\indent
    \@ifnotempty{##1}{(\ignorespaces##1\unskip) }%
    {\fontsize{8}{10}\selectfont\itshape\ignorespaces##2}\par\endgroup}%
  \def\curraddr##1##2{\begingroup
    \@ifnotempty{##2}{\nobreak\indent\curraddrname
      \@ifnotempty{##1}{, \ignorespaces##1\unskip}\/:\space
      ##2\par}\endgroup}%
  \def\email##1##2{\begingroup
    \@ifnotempty{##2}{\nobreak\indent\emailaddrname
      \@ifnotempty{##1}{, \ignorespaces##1\unskip}\/:\space
      \ttfamily##2\par}\endgroup}%
  \def\urladdr##1##2{\begingroup
    \def~{\char`\~}%
    \@ifnotempty{##2}{\nobreak\indent\urladdrname
      \@ifnotempty{##1}{, \ignorespaces##1\unskip}\/:\space
      \ttfamily##2\par}\endgroup}%
  \addresses
  \endgroup
}
\makeatother

\begin{document}

\title{Sample title}

%    Remove any unused author tags.

%    author one information
\author{First Name}
\address{Sample, Affiliation}
\curraddr{Current, Address}
\email{someone@somewhere.com}
\thanks{Sample template downloaded from ftp://ftp.ams.org/pub/tex/amslatex/classes/amsart.template.}

%    author two information
\author{Second Author}
\address{Second, Affiliation}
\curraddr{Address, Second}
\email{anybody@somewhere.com}
\thanks{This is the second author}

\subjclass[2000]{Primary 0000, 1111}
%    For articles to be published after 1 January 2010, you may use
%    the following version:
%\subjclass[2010]{Primary }

\keywords{template, amsart}

\date{24 July 2013}

\dedicatory{Blah blah blah.}

\begin{abstract}
\lipsum[4]
\end{abstract}

\maketitle

\section{Introduction}

\lipsum

\begin{thebibliography}{9}
\bibitem{1} First reference.

\bibitem{2} Second reference.

\end{thebibliography}



\end{document}

%-----------------------------------------------------------------------
% End of amsart.template
%-----------------------------------------------------------------------

Hope this helps.

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