\center environment centers the whole document in LaTeX

Question

I have the following line between my \maketitle and my \begin{abstract}:

\center{ \textsc{Some text here} }  

This seems to cause the ENTIRE DOCUMENT to be formatted as centered. Why is this and how should I get around it?

Answer 1

Try

\begin{center}     \textsc{Some text here} }    \end{center} 

instead. center is an environment, meaning it needs to be used with \begin and \end.

Furthermore there is the \centering command which turns on centered alignment for the rest of the block. I assume \center is a similar command from plain TeX.