\maketitle

LaTeX2e help 1.6

### 2.15.1: \maketitle

`\maketitle`

The `\maketitle` command generates a title on a separate title page - except in the `article` class, where the title normally goes at the top of the first page. Information used to produce the title is obtained from the following declarations:

See Page Styles for the commands to give the information.

- \author Who wrote this stuff?
- \date The date the document was created.
- \thanks A special form of footnote.
- \title How to set the document title.