Short title running and Author running in article class

Question

I try to add short title running on the even pages and author running on the odd page in a document, using this code:

\documentclass[11pt]{article}
\usepackage{lipsum}

\title{\bf THE TITLE}

\author{FIRST AUTHOR\footnote{{\tt [email protected]} Address} 
       \and SECOND AUTHOR\footnote{second author address}
       \and THIRD AUTHOR\footnote{third author address}}
\date{~}
\begin{document}

\maketitle

\pagestyle{myheadings}
\markboth{The short title}{F. Author S. Author T. Author}

\lipsum
\lipsum

\end{document}

The output is:

As can be observed, the author is inserted on the top of the even pages (as on the odd pages) and not the short title as I want.

I really don't know how to fix it, by keeping the same layout of the document (margins, width, length etc.) as for the article class.

Any help would be appreciated.

Answer 1

Set your headings using fancyhdr, and you can include ifoddpage to see whether you're on an odd or an even page (called runningheads below).

\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{lipsum}

\title{\bfseries THE TITLE}

\author{FIRST AUTHOR\footnote{\texttt{[email protected]} Address} 
       \and SECOND AUTHOR\footnote{second author address}
       \and THIRD AUTHOR\footnote{third author address}}
\date{~}

\usepackage{fancyhdr,ifoddpage}
\fancypagestyle{runningheads}{%
  \fancyhf{}% Clear header/footer
  \renewcommand{\headrulewidth}{0pt}% Remove header rule
  %\renewcommand{\footrulewidth}{0pt}% Remove footer rule (default)
  \fancyhead[L]{% Left header
    \checkoddpage% Update \ifoddpage
    \ifoddpage
      F.~Author, S.~Author, T.~Author% Odd pages
    \else
      The short title% Even pages
    \fi
  }%
  \fancyhead[R]{\thepage}% Right header
}

\pagestyle{runningheads}

\begin{document}

\maketitle

\lipsum
\lipsum

\end{document}

Answer 2

Here is a simplified version of Werner's solution, using fancyhdr E and O options instead of \ifoddpage. Also it doesn't define a new pagestyle as this isn't necessary in this example.

\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{lipsum}

\title{\bfseries THE TITLE}

\author{FIRST AUTHOR\footnote{\texttt{[email protected]} Address} 
       \and SECOND AUTHOR\footnote{second author address}
       \and THIRD AUTHOR\footnote{third author address}}
\date{~}

\usepackage[twoside]{fancyhdr}
  \fancyhf{}% Clear header/footer
  \renewcommand{\headrulewidth}{0pt}% Remove header rule
  %\renewcommand{\footrulewidth}{0pt}% Remove footer rule (default)
  \fancyhead[LO]{F.~Author, S.~Author, T.~Author} % Left header
  \fancyhead[LE]{The short title} % Left header
  \fancyhead[R]{\thepage}% Right header

\pagestyle{fancy}

\begin{document}

\maketitle

\lipsum
\lipsum

\end{document}