How to keep an Album together if Songs are by different Artists

Many albums include different artists or variations of artists (e.g. JohnSmith and JohnSmith & MaryJane). Currently, by "default," these such an album is split into two or more albums in the Library.
What steps/selections are necessary to keep albums as single units?
Thanks for your time.

Generally setting a common Album Artist will fix things.
For deeper problems see Grouping tracks into albums.
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