Title page in LaTeX

A lab report title page is easiest to lay out by hand in the titlepage environment. You get full control: the university name at the top, the experiment title in the middle, the author and date at the bottom.

\begin{titlepage}
  \centering
  {\large University of Technology \par}
  \vspace{4cm}
  {\LARGE\bfseries Measuring the gravitational acceleration \par}
  \vspace{1cm}
  {\large Lab report, experiment 3 \par}
  \vfill
  John Smith, group 2\par
  \today
\end{titlepage}

Common mistakes

• Spacing with empty lines: it does not work. Vertical space comes from \vspace and \vfill.
• A page number on the title page: titlepage hides it, \maketitle in the article class does not.

See also

• Accented characters in LaTeX
• Bibliography in LaTeX
• Table in LaTeX