Creating two columns in article, report or book

\documentclass[11pt,twocolumn]{article}

\setlength{\columnsep}{distance}

\setlength{\columnseprule}{thickness}

77 Responses to “Creating two columns in article, report or book”

• Víctor Poblete
  July 8th, 2008 at 3:08 pm

  Hi, many thanks for this space of big help for LaTeX. I want to wite a paper with two columns but I need to insert a table (a little bit big, horizontally full page) and next, I must continue with two columns. Is that possible?

  Thanks,

  Víctor

  Reply
• tom
  July 12th, 2008 at 10:22 pm

  Hi Victor,

  The following code might help you solving your problem. The command “\twocolumn”, “\onecolumn” respectively will allways insert a new page, which is probably not what you want. When using “multicols” instead, you can have different layouts on a single page:

  \documentclass{article}
  \usepackage{multicol}
  \usepackage[english]{babel}
  \usepackage{blindtext}
  \begin{document}
    \begin{multicols}{2}[\textbf{Example for a two column text}]
      \blindtext
    \end{multicols}
  \begin{table}[ht]
  \caption{default}
  \begin{center}
  \begin{tabular}{|c|c|c|c|c|}
  \hline
  onecolumn & onecolumn & onecolumn & onecolumn & onecolumn\\
  \hline
  onecolumn & onecolumn & onecolumn & onecolumn & onecolumn\\
  \hline
  \end{tabular}
  \end{center}
  \label{default}
  \end{table}%
    \begin{multicols}{2}
      \blindtext[10]
    \end{multicols}
  \end{document}

  Reply
  • Ben
    November 20th, 2011 at 10:16 am

    Thanks a lot Tom! It worked exactly as i wanted!

    Reply
  • Murat
    June 14th, 2012 at 10:45 pm

    Wonderful !!! worked great, thanks a lot for this really helpful site!

    Reply
    • tom
      June 15th, 2012 at 10:05 am

      You are very welcome! Tom.
• Christophe H.
  October 6th, 2008 at 8:44 am

  Hi,
  Thank you for this very useful tip. However, I think there a backslash missing in both commands: it shoud be:

  \setlength{\columnsep}{distance}

  and

  \setlength{\columnseprule}{thickness}

  instead of

  \setlength{columnsep}{distance}

  and

  \setlength{columnseprule}{thickness}

  Regards,
  Christophe

  Reply
• tom
  October 6th, 2008 at 10:34 am

  Hi Christophe,

  You are right, there was a typo and I corrected it. Thanks for your help, I appreciate it very much.

  Cheers,
  Tom

  Reply
• Novice
  July 29th, 2009 at 7:05 am

  Hi Victor,

  I am using math mode under two column format. Some of the lines are exceeding the column width. How can I break the line in math mode ?

  Reply
  • tom
    May 8th, 2010 at 9:13 pm

    You might want to try using the math mode ($$…$$) and manually split your formula. Whenever you close the math mode, a line break is automatically inserted.

    Tom.

    Reply
• Edgar
  August 23rd, 2009 at 1:39 am

  Tanks. Yours comands are very good and clear

  Reply
• sergio f.
  August 26th, 2009 at 1:38 pm

  hola tom muchas gracias por tu aporte a este lenguaje. llevaba bastante tiempo tratando solucionarlo, espero que sigas ayudando desde esta tribuna.

  Reply
• Monica
  December 10th, 2010 at 3:21 pm

  Thank you very much!!!!!!!

  Reply
• khalil
  January 3rd, 2011 at 7:15 am

  I want to have four or three table in one row. help me with one sample.

  Reply
  • tom
    January 3rd, 2011 at 5:37 pm

    Separating a document into several columns can be done using the “multicol”-package:

    \usepackage{multicol}
    \begin{document}
    \begin{multicols}{3}    % 3 columns
       ...
    \end{multicols}
    \end{document}

    Cheers, Tom.

    Reply
• Tricia
  January 16th, 2011 at 5:01 am

  I am using two columns and was wondering if it was possible to have my title centered on the whole page not a column…

  Reply
  • tom
    January 18th, 2011 at 4:48 am

    This is how you can do it:

    \documentclass[11pt]{article}
    \usepackage{multicol}
    \begin{document}
    \begin{center}
    \bf{Two column}
    \end{center}
    \begin{multicols}{2}{
    ...
    }
    \end{multicols}
    \end{document}

    Cheers, Tom.

    Reply
• khalil
  January 19th, 2011 at 12:05 pm

  Thanks tom. But my problem is 3*3 squares. I want to have four 3*3 squares in each row.

  Best Wishes

  Reply
• Art
  February 27th, 2011 at 5:34 pm

  Is there any way to have footnotes as well as text appear in two columns with multicols? Using the twocolumn option does that but then one cannot have a title in one column followed by text in two columns. Multicols makes that possible but typesets the footnotes in one column across the bottom (which looks odd),

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  • tom
    March 1st, 2011 at 1:33 pm

    Hello,

    Hmm, not easy indeed. I could not find a solution to your multicolumn approach. What seems possible however is having a title span both columns, using the optional argument of the twocolumn environment:

    \documentclass[twocolumn]{article}
     \begin{document}
    \twocolumn[\centerline{\Large \bf This is a one column title} 
     \bigskip]
     \end{document}

    In case you are using maketitle, try this:

    \documentclass[...]{article}
      ...
      \begin{document}
      \twocolumn[{\csname @twocolumnfalse\endcsname
        \maketitle}]
      ...
      \end{document}

    I found this here.

    Cheers, Tom.

    Reply
    • Md.Shamsujjoha Disha
      April 24th, 2011 at 6:52 am

      Actually I want a Single page contain both abstract of my document in one column and remaining part in two column without new pages … can you help
    • tom
      April 24th, 2011 at 7:47 am

      Hello!
      This would be the standard way to have a one-column abstract and a two-column text:

      \documentclass[twocolumn]{article}
      \title{Title}
      \begin{document}
      \twocolumn[
        \begin{@twocolumnfalse}
          \maketitle
          \begin{abstract}
      	...
          \end{abstract}
        \end{@twocolumnfalse}
        ]
      \section{Two column section}
      ...
      \end{document}

      I found this here.

      Regards, Tom.
• Alex
  May 18th, 2011 at 10:37 pm

  Hi! I used two column style and I got a problem with Tables and Figures. How could I fit them to column?

  \usepackage{multicol}
  \begin{document}
  \begin{multicols}{2}
  ...
  ...
  \begin{table}
  \caption{Parameters of experiment} 
  \label{exp}
  \centering
  \begin{tabular}{l | c}
  Parameter & Value\\
  \hline
  Flow(injection) rate&4.0 ml/min\\
  \end{tabular}
  \end{table}
  \end{multicols}
  \end{document}

  Thanks for answer!

  Reply
  • tom
    May 19th, 2011 at 5:14 am

    Hi Alex,
    Apparently, floating environments like “figure” and “table” don’t work with multicol. Here is a possible solution.

    Other than that, you may also want to try to place your figure/table within a minipage environment…

    Cheers, Tom.

    Reply
    • Alex
      May 19th, 2011 at 6:15 am

      Thank you very much!
      I’ll try it tomorrow
  • Alex
    May 20th, 2011 at 3:20 pm

    It works, thank you
    By the way, I found that {tabulax} is much more useful for multicolumn regime.

    Reply
    • Alex
      May 20th, 2011 at 3:20 pm

      *{tabularx}
• Tina
  May 19th, 2011 at 8:22 am

  Hi Tom,
  I found many comments are very helpful here. can you please have a look at my questions? I want to set two colums in different width. The text content is in the main column (wider column) and the figures and tables are in the other column. Your prompt reply would be greatly appreciated.
  Many thanks.
  Tina

  Reply
  • tom
    May 20th, 2011 at 8:35 am

    Hi Tina,

    Unfortunately, the multicol package only supports equal column width. You may want to try the longtable or minipage package. Another possibility might be the parallel package, which does not seem to support figures, however. Finally, the most promising solution is to use the wrapfig package. Even though you will probably have to tweak her and there, it’s relatively straight forward. Here is an example:

    \documentclass[a4paper]{report} 
    \usepackage[english]{babel}
    \usepackage{blindtext, graphicx} 
    \usepackage{wrapfig}
    \begin{document} 
    \begin{wrapfigure}{r}{0.3\textwidth}
    \centering
    \includegraphics[width=0.3\textwidth]{img1.jpg}
    \caption{cap1}
    \vspace{1cm}
    \includegraphics[width=0.3\textwidth]{img1.jpg}
    \caption{cap2}
    \end{wrapfigure}
    \blindtext
    \begin{wrapfigure}{r}{0.3\textwidth}
    \centering
    \includegraphics[width=0.3\textwidth]{img1.jpg}
    \end{wrapfigure}
    \blindtext
    \end{document}

    Cheers, Tom.

    Reply
• mathias
  June 4th, 2011 at 3:09 pm

  Thanks mate…

  Reply
• Isaac
  June 18th, 2011 at 9:47 pm

  Your website is very good to the latex users. Thanks, Tom.

  Reply
• Ahmed Salahhmed
  September 3rd, 2011 at 6:48 pm

  Thank you man. This is awesome, i wasted a lot of time pulling my hair off coz of the package ltxgrid. You saved my time.

  Thanks again.
  Ahmed,

  Reply
• hari
  October 11th, 2011 at 4:28 am

  m doing twocolumn article title make a problem they not equal to other column

  Reply
  • tom
    October 14th, 2011 at 5:52 am

    Please provide a minimal code example for me to reproduce you problem. Thanks, Tom.

    Reply
• Martin Ljungqvist
  October 28th, 2011 at 1:07 pm

  I would like to have a quite long and narrow table to continue from one page column to the other page column, so instead of it continuing to the next page it continues to the next column so I can have that long narrow table on one page instead of two. Like combining longtable and multicol, which is not possible unfortunately. This could otherwise be done using a normal table and having the double amount of table columns but that demands lots of re-structuring of the table-data. It would be interesting to hear if and how you think it would be possible to have one long narrow table in two sections (page columns or similar) on one page. Thanks /Martin

  Reply
  • tom
    October 31st, 2011 at 3:24 am

    Hi Martin,

    Thanks for your question. You may want to check out the supertabular package. I attached a minimal example below.

    \documentclass[12pt, twocolumn]{article}
    \usepackage{supertabular}
    \begin{document}
    \begin{center}
    \begin{supertabular}{|c|c|c|c|}
    \hline
    1 & 2 & 3 & 4 \\ 1 & 2 & 3 & 4 \\ 1 & 2 & 3 & 4 \\ 1 & 2 & 3 & 4 \\
    1 & 2 & 3 & 4 \\ 1 & 2 & 3 & 4 \\ 1 & 2 & 3 & 4 \\ 1 & 2 & 3 & 4 \\
    1 & 2 & 3 & 4 \\ 1 & 2 & 3 & 4 \\ 1 & 2 & 3 & 4 \\ 1 & 2 & 3 & 4 \\
    1 & 2 & 3 & 4 \\ 1 & 2 & 3 & 4 \\ 1 & 2 & 3 & 4 \\ 1 & 2 & 3 & 4 \\
    1 & 2 & 3 & 4 \\ 1 & 2 & 3 & 4 \\ 1 & 2 & 3 & 4 \\ 1 & 2 & 3 & 4 \\
    1 & 2 & 3 & 4 \\ 1 & 2 & 3 & 4 \\ 1 & 2 & 3 & 4 \\ 1 & 2 & 3 & 4 \\
    1 & 2 & 3 & 4 \\ 1 & 2 & 3 & 4 \\ 1 & 2 & 3 & 4 \\ 1 & 2 & 3 & 4 \\
    1 & 2 & 3 & 4 \\ 1 & 2 & 3 & 4 \\ 1 & 2 & 3 & 4 \\ 1 & 2 & 3 & 4 \\
    1 & 2 & 3 & 4 \\ 1 & 2 & 3 & 4 \\ 1 & 2 & 3 & 4 \\ 1 & 2 & 3 & 4 \\
    1 & 2 & 3 & 4 \\ 1 & 2 & 3 & 4 \\ 1 & 2 & 3 & 4 \\ 1 & 2 & 3 & 4 \\
    1 & 2 & 3 & 4 \\ 1 & 2 & 3 & 4 \\ 1 & 2 & 3 & 4 \\ 1 & 2 & 3 & 4 \\
    1 & 2 & 3 & 4 \\ 1 & 2 & 3 & 4 \\ 1 & 2 & 3 & 4 \\ 1 & 2 & 3 & 4 \\
    \hline
    \end{supertabular}
    \end{center}
    \end{document}

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• Martin Ljungqvist
  November 4th, 2011 at 6:46 am

  Thank you for the help. I had not tested that combination. Nice.

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• Mohd Asrul Affendi Abdullah
  November 26th, 2011 at 1:43 pm

  i new in latex may someone give a beginning command to start write article in two column.

  thank u

  Reply
  • tom
    November 28th, 2011 at 3:42 am

    Hi there!

    It’s all in the post. You really only have to use the optional argument twocolumn of documentclass.

    \documentclass[11pt,twocolumn]{article}
    \begin{document}
    \section{Introduction}
    ...
    \end{document}

    Best, Tom

    Reply
• ikas
  November 28th, 2011 at 5:28 am

  hi Tom!
  i have to try make one column in two column’s template of my paper to put my tables (because my table size is so large, so it overlaps with the second column). How to solve this problem?could u?

  Cheers=)

  Reply
  • tom
    November 28th, 2011 at 9:30 am

    Please find a minimal example below that show how to have a single onecolumn page in a twocolumn document.

    \documentclass[11pt,twocolumn]{article}
    \usepackage[english]{babel}
    \usepackage{blindtext}
    \setlength{\columnseprule}{.3pt}
    \begin{document}
    \section{Introduction}
    \Blindtext
    \onecolumn
    \blindtext
    \newpage
    \twocolumn
    \Blindtext
    \end{document}

    Let me know if you need anything else. Cheers, Tom.

    Reply
• Mohd Asrul Affendi Abdullah
  November 28th, 2011 at 8:46 am

  thank u,,,tom really appreciate…and how to separate between two clomn

  Reply
  • tom
    November 28th, 2011 at 9:07 am

    Do you want a line separating the two columns?

    \setlength{\columnseprule}{.3pt}

    You can adapt the thickness by changing the second parameter.
    Please read the post above.

    Best, Tom.

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• Mohd Asrul Affendi Abdullah
  November 30th, 2011 at 6:57 am

  thank tom.. im already got insert table and figure…..

  my problem now
  1.how to insert math equation in two column..my equation to length and disturb other side column…

  2. Reference how to create by two column
  thank u

  Reply
  • tom
    November 30th, 2011 at 8:47 am

    Hi there,

    1. You can break an equation using eqnarray, e.g.:

    \begin{eqnarray}\nonumber
    f(x)&=&a_9x^9+a_8x^8+a_7x^7+a_6x^6+a_5x^5+\\
    &&a_4x^4+a_3x^3+a_2x^2+a_1x+a_0 \end{eqnarray}

    2. I’m not sure what you mean by reference. It would help if you provided a minimal example.

    Thanks, Tom.

    Reply
• Mohd Asrul Affendi Abdullah
  November 30th, 2011 at 3:59 pm

  thank tom..nice…very helpful….solved reference too

  Reply
• Mohd Asrul Affendi Abdullah
  December 1st, 2011 at 3:25 am

  \begin{eqnarray}\nonumber
  L_c(y_{dj}\gamma,\beta,\psi)&==0}^n}\ln[\exp(z'_i\gamma) + ( 1+\psi\exp(x'_\beta))^{-\psi}]+\\ &>0}^n}{\displaystyle\sum_{j=0}^{y_{dj}-1}}\ln(j+\psi^{-1})+\\
  &>0}^n} \{-\ln(y_{dj})!-(y_{dj}+ \psi^{-1})+\\
  &&ln (1+\psi\exp(x'_i\beta)) + y_{dj}\ln(\psi) + y_{dj}x'_\beta\} -\\ &^n}\ln[1+\exp(z'_i\gamma)]\end{eqnarray}

  this is my command,,,but still long and disturb other side column..but when i copy and paste using your example given above it to be ok …or i need use some package..i already use the \usepackage{amsmath}

  Reply
  • tom
    December 1st, 2011 at 3:51 am

    Make sure you set the parentheses right and use eqnarray as follows:

    \begin{eqnarray*}
    left-side &=& right-side \\
    && right-side only no sign \\
    &>& right-side only with sign \\
    left-side only && \\
    \end{eqnarray*}

    Best, Tom.

    Reply
• Mohd Asrul Affendi Abdullah
  December 2nd, 2011 at 12:16 am

  thank tom..will try

  Reply
• mohd asrul
  December 4th, 2011 at 11:52 pm

  tom can i got your email, i need mail some coding latex for your help

  Reply
  • tom
    December 5th, 2011 at 7:07 am

    Hi there,

    Please describe your problem and provide a minimal example in order for me to reproduce it.

    Thank you,
    Tom.

    Reply
• Mohd Asrul Affendi Abdullah
  December 5th, 2011 at 10:26 am

  thank u..

  how to create a normal table 5 column n 8 row in two column article

  Reply
  • tom
    December 6th, 2011 at 7:49 am

    It works exactly the same way as for a table in a single-column article. You may have to reduce the width in case the table is too wide. This can either be done by decreasing the font size (e.g. to tiny) or by using a fixed column width (e.g. p{2cm}).
    Best, Tom.

    Reply
• Simon
  December 18th, 2011 at 10:27 pm

  If I write \documentclass[11pt,twocolumn]{article} the title page, abstract an the contents are divided into two columns, which I don’t want. If I use \begin{multicols}{2} inside the document instead the title page is not affected, but the columns get too slim. I tried using \setlength{\textwidth}{distance} but the text isn’t centered that way, and the header rule is not adapted accordingly. Is there another, better way when multicols is used? Or is there a way to use “twocolumn” without changing the title page?

  All best,
  Simon

  Reply
  • tom
    December 23rd, 2011 at 11:48 am

    Hi Simon,

    Here is a minimal example that produces the title page, abstract and contents in a single column and the rest in two columns.

    \documentclass[11pt, twocolumn]{article}
    \usepackage{blindtext}
    \begin{document}
    \title{Bla bla title}
    \author{tom}
    \date{\today}
    \twocolumn[
      \begin{@twocolumnfalse}
        \maketitle
        \begin{abstract}
    	\blindtext
        \end{abstract}
        \tableofcontents
        \vspace{2cm}
      \end{@twocolumnfalse}]
    \section{Introduction}
    \blindtext
    \section{Methods}
    \blindtext
    \end{document}

    Hope it helps. Best, Tom.

    Reply
• sesinka
  January 25th, 2012 at 11:07 am

  Hi, I’m having an issue with multicol environment and too much space beween the title an name of the first section and \vspace{-3cm} does not work. Please help.

  Reply
  • tom
    January 26th, 2012 at 3:40 am

    Hi Sesinka,

    Here is a quick fix. If this is not what you were looking for, please provide a minimal example for illustration.

    \documentclass[11pt, twocolumn]{article}
    \begin{document}
    \title{This is a title}
    \date{\vspace{-2cm}}
    \maketitle
    \section{Introduction}
    \end{document}

    Best, Tom.

    Reply
    • sesinka
      January 26th, 2012 at 10:38 am

      Hi Tom. Thanks for the advice, but I used twocolumn before and it doens’t look as nice as when using multicol environment. (So I was trying to fix it in multicol) In the meantime I found sort of fix of the gap. In my document, there was first column almost empty and at the bottom there was paragraph. That was ugly. in the second column there was a long table. I figured out, when I divided the table into two, the first half appeared in the bottom of the first column and the first paragraph was finally placed just after the name of the section. Anyways, thank you.

      Ses
• Dr. UTTAM KUMAR BERA
  February 21st, 2012 at 11:57 am

  creating two cloumn format , starting with first page . I used tis command. But unfortunitaly the paper start with blank page. please solve my problem
  I used the following command.

  \documentclass[8 pt,twocolumn]{article}
  %\documentclass[conference]{IEEEtran}
  %\documentclass[10 pt,twoside,reqno,fleqn]{amsart}
  \setlength {\topmargin}{0.01 in} \textwidth 16 cm \textheight 17 cm
  %\oddsidemargin 0 in \evensidemargin 0 in \setcounter {page}{1}
  %\setlength{\columnseprule}{0.5cm}
  %\def\pn{\par\noindent}
  \def\cen{\centerline}
  \usepackage{geometry}
  \usepackage{float}
  \usepackage{graphicx}
  \usepackage[]{amsmath}
  \usepackage[american]{babel}

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  • tom
    February 21st, 2012 at 1:09 pm

    Hi!

    Thanks for your comment.
    Please provide a working minimal example and not just the preamble e.g.:

    \documentclass[10pt,twocolumn]{article}
    \usepackage[american]{babel}
    \usepackage{blindtext}
    \begin{document}
    \blindtext[8]
    \end{document}

    I will then compile it in my editor and try to help you.

    By the way, the minimum font size for article is 10pt. If you need a smaller font size, e.g. 8pt like in your example, try:

    \documentclass[8pt,twocolumn]{extarticle}

    Best,
    Tom.

    Reply
• Mohsen
  February 22nd, 2012 at 2:48 am

  Hi Tom,
  I want to set two colums text but in right to lef ordert. Your reply would be greatly appreciated.
  Many thanks.
  Mohsen

  Reply
  • tom
    February 22nd, 2012 at 3:19 am

    Hey Mohsen,

    The multicol package implements a command to typeset right-to-left (RTL) documents with multiple columns. If you want to add figures/tables (floats), try this (multicol doesn’t allow floats). Here is a minimal example:

    \documentclass[11pt]{article}
    \usepackage[english]{babel}
    \usepackage{blindtext, multicol, float}
    \begin{document}
    \RLmulticolcolumns
    \begin{multicols}{2}
    \blindtext[1]
    \begin{figure}[H]
      \centering
    	\rule{4cm}{3cm}
      \caption{Figure in two columns}
    \end{figure}
    \blindtext[4]
    \end{multicols}
    \end{document}

    Best, Tom.

    Reply
• Manu
  March 2nd, 2012 at 7:34 pm

  Hi Tom,

  Here is another question for you! I am writing a journal article using elsarticle.cls with two columns. I would like to get a bibliography (end of my article) that finishes off with the same level, that is to say:
  ——- ——-
  ——- ——-
  ——- ——-

  instead of:
  ——- ——-
  ——-
  ——-
  ——-
  ——-
  I have seen this before. I think this layout should be possible whatever the document class and the text (in my case bibliography) I use. But how to do this?

  Thank you in advance for your help.

  Manu

  Reply
  • tom
    March 5th, 2012 at 2:23 pm

    Hi Manu,

    If you use the multicol package rather than the twocolumn option, the text of the final page will be balanced.

    Here is a minimal working example:

    \documentclass{article}
    \usepackage[english]{babel}
    \usepackage{multicol, blindtext}
    \begin{document}
    \begin{multicols}{2}
    \blinddocument
    \end{multicols}
    \end{document}

    Best, Tom.

    Reply
    • Manu
      March 5th, 2012 at 5:32 pm

      Hi Tom,

      Thanks for your answer. I appreciate it.

      You are right: multicol balances the columns on the final page by default.

      However, the elsarticle class uses the twocolumn option by default. A new search with better keywords leads to the following solution: http://www.tex.ac.uk/cgi-bin/texfaq2html?label=balance
      I have not tried it yet, but that should work.

      Regards, Manu.
    • tom
      March 6th, 2012 at 11:06 am

      Thanks for posting your solution. Appreciate it! Tom.
• ideree
  March 19th, 2012 at 8:04 am

  thank you tom two columns is now very easy kkk

  Reply
• aya2002
  July 25th, 2012 at 5:59 pm

  Hello Tom, please help me, this is the 13th day I can not solve my problem, I must follow the template of the journal which is given in this link: http://www.springer.com/cda/content/document/cda_downloaddocument/LaTeX.zip?SGWID=0-0-45-468198-0

  However, I must use the

  \documentclass[twocolumn]{svjour3}% twocolumn

  so that, the problem is that I can not insert a table which is almost as wide as the two columns. When I put my code (given below), I can not find my table in the next page because it has two large figures, but I can find it at the end of the document (after the references). I am also new to latex. please help me.

  \begin{table}[p]
  % table caption is above the table
  \caption{Summery for all scenarios}
  \label{tab:7}       % Give a unique label
  % For LaTeX tables use
  \begin{tabular}{l  l  l  l|  l  l  l  |l  l  l  |l  l  l}
  \hline %
  \multirow{2}{*}{scheme}&\multicolumn{3}{c|}{scen. $1$}&\multicolumn{3}{c|}{scen. $2$}&\multicolumn{3}{c|}{scen. $3$}&\multicolumn{3}{c}{scen. $4$}\\
  
   & C & SI & PAPR & C& SI & PAPR & C& SI & PAPR & C& SI & PAPR  \\
  \hline
  CSLM&\textendash& $5$ & $10.5$ &\textendash& $5$ & $10.5$ &\textendash& $5$ & $10.5$ &\textendash& $5$ & $10.5$ \\
  SSLM	&$44$&	$5$  &  $9.5$  &	$70$ & $4$ & $9.75$ &$83$&$3$&$9.75$&$90$&$2$&$9.8$\\
  \hline \hline
  \multicolumn{13}{l}{C $\colon$ Complexity reduction (percentage)}\\
  \multicolumn{13}{l}{SI $\colon$ Side Information (number of bits) }\\
  \multicolumn{13}{l}{PAPR$\colon$ Peak \textendash to \textendash Average Power Ration Reduction (dB)}\\
  \multicolumn{13}{l}{Note$\colon$ this table build on the best results of the CSLM and the SSLM techniques respectively}\\
  \multicolumn{13}{l}{Note$\colon$ , i.e., $U = 32$ for the CSLM, and $z = 48$, at $r =8$ for the SSLM.}\\
  %\noalign{\smallskip}\hline
  \end{tabular}
  \end{table}

  Note Please: when I remove the option [p] , the table will appear after the page of the figures but in the beginning of the second column, therefore, it will cutoff because it is very wide (approximately 90% of the two columns).
  Thank you in advance.

  Reply
  • tom
    July 27th, 2012 at 4:06 am

    Hi there,

    See the example below. The table is placed on the second page, not at the end of the document.

    \documentclass[twocolumn]{svjour3}
    \usepackage{multirow, blindtext}
    \begin{document}
    \begin{table*}[h!t]
    % table caption is above the table
    \caption{Summery for all scenarios}
    \label{tab:7} % Give a unique label
    % For LaTeX tables use
    \begin{tabular}{l l l l| l l l |l l l |l l l}
    \hline %
    \multirow{2}{*}{scheme}&\multicolumn{3}{c|}{scen. $1$}&\multicolumn{3}{c|}{scen. $2$}&\multicolumn{3}{c|}{scen. $3$}&\multicolumn{3}{c}{scen. $4$}\\
    & C & SI & PAPR & C& SI & PAPR & C& SI & PAPR & C& SI & PAPR \\
    \hline
    CSLM&\textendash& $5$ & $10.5$ &\textendash& $5$ & $10.5$ &\textendash& $5$ & $10.5$ &\textendash& $5$ & $10.5$ \\
    SSLM	&$44$&	$5$ & $9.5$ &	$70$ & $4$ & $9.75$ &$83$&$3$&$9.75$&$90$&$2$&$9.8$\\
    \hline \hline
    \multicolumn{13}{l}{C $\colon$ Complexity reduction (percentage)}\\
    \multicolumn{13}{l}{SI $\colon$ Side Information (number of bits) }\\
    \multicolumn{13}{l}{PAPR$\colon$ Peak \textendash to \textendash Average Power Ration Reduction (dB)}\\
    \multicolumn{13}{l}{Note$\colon$ this table build on the best results of the CSLM and the SSLM techniques respectively}\\
    \multicolumn{13}{l}{Note$\colon$ , i.e., $U = 32$ for the CSLM, and $z = 48$, at $r =8$ for the SSLM.}\\
    %\noalign{\smallskip}\hline
    \end{tabular}
    \end{table*}
    \Blindtext
    \Blindtext
    \end{document}

    Also, you may use the starred table environment for the it to span two columns.

    Hope that helps, Tom.

    Reply
• aya2002
  July 27th, 2012 at 7:41 am

  Hi Tom,
  really you are very good man,
  thank you very much. It is working now.
  Thanks again

  Reply
  • tom
    July 27th, 2012 at 7:58 am

    You are welcome. Happy to help! Best, Tom.

    Reply
• Jo
  August 27th, 2012 at 3:51 pm

  Hi,

  Thank you so much for this post, but I’m having a hard time setting up a two-column document with a landscape layout.

  Here’s a snippet of the code:

  \documentclass[11pt,twocolumn]{article}
  \usepackage{pdflscape}
  \usepackage{fancyhdr}
  
  \setlength{\columnseprule}{0.5pt}
  
  \fancyhead{My header}
  \renewcommand{\headrulewidth}{0.4pt}
  \pagestyle{fancy}
  
  \begin{document}
  \landscape
  
  [...]
  
  \end{document}

  I get a single column with this, and besides, the header is not properly displayed (they need to be rotated), but that’s yet another problem.

  Thanks in advance !

  Reply
  • tom
    August 28th, 2012 at 1:55 am

    Hi Jo,

    This should work:

    \documentclass[11pt,twocolumn, landscape]{article}
    \usepackage{fancyhdr, blindtext, pdflscape}
    \setlength{\columnseprule}{0.5pt}
    \fancyhead{My header}
    \renewcommand{\headrulewidth}{0.4pt}
    \pagestyle{fancy}
    \begin{document}
    \blindtext
    \end{document}

    Best, Tom.

    Reply
    • Jo
      August 28th, 2012 at 5:17 pm

      Hi,

      Thank you very much! This worked really well!
    • tom
      August 29th, 2012 at 12:24 am

      You are welcome! Best, Tom.
• Pablo Acuña
  November 22nd, 2012 at 5:29 pm

  Thanks man, pretty useful

  Reply
• muhammadalzaidi1
  April 30th, 2013 at 1:01 pm

  Hi Tom,
  Thank you so much for your wonderful information and this interesting lesson.. I am wondering if you could help me please,
  I am using the two culomn page template you provided. But I need to set some measurement including this
  Reference list needs to be set in 10 pt Times Romans

  The paper size for submitting the manuscript is European A4 (20.99 × 29.70 cm)

  The distance between the top of the page and the top of header, as well as from the bottom of the page to the bottom of the footer should be set at 2.5 cm.

  The first tab position in the main text and in the notes is at 0.5 cm, consecutive tab stops are spaced 0.5cm apart.

  These are the requirements that I have to follow in my paper submitted to the journal. How can I do these measurements?

  Thank you for your help

  Reply
  • tom
    May 3rd, 2013 at 2:20 am

    Hi!

    Firstly, if you are submitting a paper, journals often have their own LaTeX template/class for download.

    I wasn’t quite sure what you meant by tab position. Do you mean side margins and space between columns?
    Here is some code for the document layout you describe above:

    \documentclass[10pt,a4paper,twocolumn]{article}
    \usepackage{mathptmx} % Times New Roman font
    \usepackage[T1]{fontenc}
    \usepackage[top=2.5cm, bottom=2.5cm, left=0.5cm, right=0.5cm]{geometry} % top and bottom 2.5cm margin
    \setlength{\columnsep}{0.5cm} % space between columns
    \usepackage{blindtext}
    \begin{document}
    \Blindtext\blindtext
    \end{document}

    HTH,
    Tom

    Reply

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