Even though american, english and USenglish are synonyms for babel package (according to https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/12775/babel-english-american-usenglish), the llncs document class is prepared to avoid the overriding of certain names (such as "Abstract." -> "Abstract" or "Fig." -> "Figure") when using english, but not when using the other 2.
Even though
american
,english
andUSenglish
are synonyms for babel package (according to https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/12775/babel-english-american-usenglish), the llncs document class is prepared to avoid the overriding of certain names (such as "Abstract." -> "Abstract" or "Fig." -> "Figure") when usingenglish
, but not when using the other 2.