Create one column title in a two column article

Question

I have something like this in mind I am using the following class

\documentclass[twocolumn]{svjour}

\begin{document}

\title{Title of Article}

\author{Name of Authors}

How can I do this in latex?

Answer 1

Using the svjour3 class that is to download on Springer's website, following MWE shows that the title is already by default in one-column style only:

\documentclass[twocolumn]{svjour3}
    \usepackage{lipsum}

    \title{This is my title, it is a very long title and covers two columns!}
    \author{Me Myself}

\begin{document}
    \maketitle

    \lipsum
\end{document}

Note: I'm not quite sure what you want to achieve. But my out-of-topic two cents would be: do not fiddle with Springer's template. If they have a template, they want you to stick to it. (They have their reasons, e.g. standardization of reviewing process, etc.) So they wont accept that you modify (or "improve") it (as legitimate as it could be). Because in this case, you're using a new template... and it is not the rules they want you to follow!
This template has degrees of freedom (options) you can use (see user guide embedded in the .zip file), but that's all.

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Previous answer

article and its KOMA-Script variant scrartcl classes are smart enough to do what you want, if you use the \maketitle command:

\documentclass[twocolumn]{article}
%\documentclass[twocolumn]{scrartcl}
    \usepackage{lipsum}

    \title{This is my title}
    \author{Me Myself}

\begin{document}
    \maketitle

    \lipsum
\end{document}