How to remove spaces between the items of table of contents?

Question

I have compiled the following document.

My attempt is as follows:

\documentclass[oneside, 11pt]{article}
\usepackage[utf8x]{inputenc}
\usepackage[english]{babel}
\usepackage{amsmath}
\usepackage{amsfonts}
\usepackage{amssymb}
\usepackage{lmodern}
\usepackage{hyperref}
\usepackage[colorinlistoftodos]{todonotes}
\usepackage{blindtext}
\usepackage{textcomp}
\usepackage{xcolor}
\usepackage{enumitem}
\usepackage{setspace}
\usepackage{tocloft}
\usepackage[section]{placeins}
\usepackage{enumitem}
\usepackage{pdfpages}
\usepackage{sectsty}
\usepackage{lipsum}
\usepackage{titlesec}
\sectionfont{\centering}
\newcommand{\myRed}[1]{\textcolor{red}{#1}}
\newcommand{\myGreen}[1]{\textcolor{green}{#1}}
\newcommand{\myBlue}[1]{\textcolor{blue}{#1}}
\newtheorem{definition}{Definition}[section]
\newtheorem{example}{Example}[section]
\newtheorem{proposition}{Proposition}[section]
\newtheorem{corollary}{Corollary}[section]
\newtheorem{lemma}{Lemma}[section]
\newtheorem{theorem}{Theorem}[section]
\newtheorem{remarks}{Remarks}[section]
\titleformat{\section}[block]
  {\normalfont\scshape\filcenter}{\thesection}{0.5em}{}
\renewcommand*\contentsname{\hfill Contents \hfill}
\hypersetup{
    colorlinks,
    citecolor=black,
    filecolor=black,
    linkcolor=red,
    urlcolor=blue
}
%\singlespacing
\begin{document}
\font\myfont=cmr12 at 14pt
\title{\textbf{\myfont ARTICLE NAME}}
\author{\footnotesize MY NAME }
\date{}
\maketitle
\begin{abstract}
We will prove the abstract.
\end{abstract}
\begin{center}
    \tableofcontents
\end{center}
\section{Introduction}
jhuhrc 
\section{Topology of $\mathbb{R}^n$}
Hi, this is toplogy
\section{Surfaces}
\section{Classification of Surfaces}
\end{document}

I want to create the fonts of abstract and contents as the sections (e.g. Introduction, Surfaces etc.). Also, I cannot able the vertical distance between the items and boldness of table of contents.

Please help me.

Perhaps line spacing - How to change spaces between items in Table of Contents - TeX - LaTeX Stack Exchange — user202729, Nov 07 '21 at 16:21
Unrelated, but you should try and avoid loading same packages multiple times (enumitem, for example, here). A clean preamble is always a good thing to start with. — SebGlav, Nov 07 '21 at 16:34
don't use primitive font command such as \font\myfont=cmr12 at 14pt in latex, you can choose 14pt with \Large as you have it you have 14pt font on a 13.6pt baseline spacing which is not achievable so you will have uneven and inconsistent linespacing throughout the document. — David Carlisle, Nov 07 '21 at 18:59

Peter Wilson · Answer 1 · 2021-11-07T18:48:55.997

I see that you have \usepackage{tocloft} in your preamble but you do not use it in the MWE.

In your document before \tableofcontent insert (from the tocloft package)

\setlength{\cftbeforesecskip}{0pt}

to get the normal text spacing between the section entries. A negative length will move the section entries even closer together and a positive length will move them further apart.

You list a lot of packages in your MWE. Do you really need them all in your real document?

How to remove spaces between the items of table of contents?

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