How can the section alignment in IEEEtran be adjusted for left alignment?

Question

I want to put our section in center to left

How could I possible achieve this in this kind of TeX document?

\documentclass[conference,a4paper,10pt]{IEEEtran}

I have put this fragment into my TeX document:

\section{INTRODUCTION}

The result looks like this (centered instead of left aligned):

Thanks in advance

Answer 1

The IEEEtran class explicitly sets \centering.

If you want to risk rejection of your paper, you can use a patch.

\documentclass[conference,a4paper,10pt]{IEEEtran}

\usepackage{etoolbox}

% remove \centering from \section
\patchcmd{\section}{\centering}{}{}{}

\begin{document}

\section{Introduction}

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\end{document}

Answer 2

Try titlesec package

\usepackage[explicit]{titlesec}
\titleformat{\section}[hang]{\filright\raggedright}
{\thesection.}
{6pt}
{\fontsize{12pt}{13pt}\selectfont{\sc #1}}
[]

copy the above code inside your preamble.

Hope this works