How do I put multiple lines in a title when using the apa6 class?

Question

Right now I'm using \title to define a title and \maketitle to display it. How do I put multiple lines in the title? I need to adhere to APA 6th edition format, and according to the book I'm using, I need a simple title page with multiple lines, all of the same font and size. I'm using the apa6 document class.

Answer 1

You can use a protected \parbox with centered contents; inside this \parbox, you can use \\ to introduce line breaks:

\documentclass{apa6}

\title{\protect\parbox{\textwidth}{\protect\centering A title\\ spanning\\ three lines}}
\author{The Author}

\begin{document}

\maketitle

\end{document}

The \maketitle command might result too restrictive for your purpose, so you can simply design your own titling information from scratch without using \title, \author, \maketitle, etc.; in the following example code I used a simple center environment to center the information and inside this environment you can format the information according to your specific needs:

\documentclass{apa6}

\begin{document}

\thispagestyle{empty}
\begin{center}
\fontsize{12}{14}\selectfont
A title\\ 
spanning\\ 
three lines

\vspace{1ex}

The Author
\end{center}

\end{document}