[Tex/LaTex] Springer LNCS Template: Same footnote for two authors

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To add footnotes to authors in the Springer LNCS template one should not use \footnote{}, but \thanks{}.

Source Code:

\author{Author 1\thanks{author footnote...}}

This results in the author looking like this:

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And the footnote looking like this:

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However, I would like to use the same footnote for two authors. My first try did not work:

\author{Author 1\thanks{author footnote...}
\and Author 2\thanks{author footnote...}}

This obviously creates another (second) footnote, just with the same text, looking like this:

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How can I create one author footnote which is referred to by two different authors?

Best Answer

In the lack of a MWE this is a quick and dirty solution using the article class …

\documentclass{article}

\newcommand{\repeatthanks}{\textsuperscript{\thefootnote}}

\begin{document}
\title{Title}
\author{Author1\thanks{Text}, Author2\repeatthanks}
\maketitle
\end{document}

It will only work if there’s no other \thanks in between.

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