How can I have an abstract and introduction on the same page of a Latex document?

Question

I need to change the layout of my document to send my paper to a conference. My abstract is currenly on a separate page. The introduction should be straight after the abstract, not on the separate pages.

How can I have an abstract and an introduction on the same page?

Answer 1

This is a function of the document class, so it really depends.

Some info on the behavior of the standard classes (article, report, book,...) (PDF),

Good general advice: consider using the memoir class, which is vastly configurable. All the answers are in the docs (PDF).

Answer 2

The conference should provide with at least information on how to format your paper, and often they have LaTeX styles ready, for instance at IEEE, or at ACM (btw, the IEEEtran class is bundled in TeXlive).

They are pretty standard customizations of the basic article class from LaTeX and actually I never saw one format the abstract on a separate page.

Answer 3

(Your conference is probably long due but maybe someone else can use this.)

You can put this before your abstract:

\def\abstract{
   \vfil
\begin{center}%
{\bfseries \abstractname\vspace{-.5em}}%
\end{center}
\quotation
}

\def\endabstract{\par
\endquotation
}

This way you can customize your abstract like you want it, without having it on a separate page.