[Tex/LaTex] Multiple \thanks that refer to same text

affiliationfootnotes

I'd like to have three authors that use the same footnote for their \thanks identifier (they are at the same university, and don't need separate affiliation notes). I've read one of the solutions proposed in How to write a footnnote attached to the author in a LaTeX paper?, but the last solution (using recalled footnotes) only works for two authors.

So an example: I'd like to have

Author1* and Author2* and Author3*

  • University of Podunk, Timbuktoo.

Best Answer

How about the following?

\newcommand*\samethanks[1][\value{footnote}]{\footnotemark[#1]}
\author{Foo\thanks{University of Podunk, Timbuktoo}
\and Bar\samethanks
\and Baz\thanks{Somewhere Else}
\and Bof\samethanks[1]
\and Hmm\samethanks}

The \samethanks either duplicate the previous value or if you give it the optional argument, it uses that value. So Foo, Bar, and Bof have the same affiliation. Baz and Hmm have the same affiliation, different from Foo, Bar, and Bof's.

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