HowTo_Abstract

How to add an abstract

Sometimes, in addition to the detailed motivation, a teaser text (aka summary or abstract) is desired. This is achieved with the classes scrartcl or scrreprt with

\begin{abstract}
  This is a teaser text, also known as an abstract. It is set in
  special formatting and should be placed before the table of contents.
  Although it can be considered part of the title, it is not generated
  by \verb|\maketitle|, but directly by the \texttt{abstract} environment.
\end{abstract}

immediately after \maketitle.

By the way, in my opinion the abstract environment is less useful when using a titlepage environment or when using option titlepage (default for scrreprt). In these cases, however, you can use the abstract option to slightly improve it. Instead, I recommend using an unnumbered heading (see \chapter*, \addchap, \section* and \addsec in the KOMA-Script manual) instead of the abstract environment. When using scrbook, such an unnumbered chapter is the means of choice anyway, since this class does not provide an abstract environment:

\addchap{Abstract}
This is a teaser text, also known as an abstract. It is used without
formatted specially as an unnumbered chapter and should be placed before
the table of contents. Alternative headings would be for example Motivation
or Overview.