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I would like to make the titles of the sections of my paper and subtitles, have the same formatting as the American Economic Review. Here's an example:

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The section titles should be centered, start with I, II, III, and subsections with A, B, C ...

While they do provide a .cls class, I cannot figure out which lines I should put in my preamble as I would like to avoid using the whole thing. Does anyone know which lines should suffice and modifications needed (if any?)

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It is simple with titlesec:

\documentclass[12pt, twoside]{article}
\usepackage[utf8]{inputenc}
\usepackage{lipsum}%
\usepackage{titlesec}%

\renewcommand{\thesection}{\Roman{section}}
\titleformat{\section}[block]{\normalsize\bfseries\filcenter}{\thesection.}{1em}{}
\titlespacing*{\section}{0pt}{11pt plus 2pt minus 2pt}{11pt plus 2pt minus 2pt}
\renewcommand{\thesubsection}{\Alph{subsection}}
\titleformat{\subsection}{\normalsize\itshape\filcenter}{\thesubsection.}{1em}{}
\titlespacing*{\subsection}{0pt}{11pt plus 2pt minus 2pt}{11pt plus 2pt minus 2pt}

\begin{document}

\section{A Delightful Section}
\lipsum[1]
\subsection{A Lovely Subsection}
\lipsum[2-3]

\end{document}

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  • Hi @Bernard, thanks for the reply. This is almost what I am looking for. The only thing is that if one adds another section and subsection to the text, the subsection indexing does not restart. I.e. a subsection of section II starts being numbered at B. How can I solve that?
    – phdstudent
    Jul 21, 2017 at 9:47
  • @phdstudent: It's my fault: I copy-pasted the redefinition of \thesection to redefine \thesubsection, but forgot to change the name of the counter accordingly. The code has been fixed. Thank you for pointing it!
    – Bernard
    Jul 21, 2017 at 9:58

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