Title page with the LaTeX article class

Use the titlepage class option.

\documentclass[titlepage]{article}

\usepackage{lipsum}

\begin{document}

\title{(title)}
\author{(author)}
\maketitle

\begin{abstract}
\lipsum[1]
\end{abstract}

\lipsum[1]

\end{document}

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