How to upload LaTeX manuscript, tables, figures, and auxiliary files to Elsevier's EES?

Question

Can someone who has successfully submitted a LaTeX-based paper to the Elsevier Editorial System please describe the detailed steps needed, so that the paper builds correctly on EES, and can be approved?

In particular, some or all of the following information (which I couldn't find in the EES help/documentation pages) would be helpful:

• Is there a minimum working example available somewhere, with a manuscript .tex file, separate table and figure files, and bibliography file? (plus whatever other files would be needed)
• Is there a way to test a document's build with one's local environment, such that if it works locally, will likely work at EES?
• If you start with a single my-paper.tex and my-bibliography.bib file and can build a PDF correctly from that, what's the process to break up those (two) files into the manuscript+tables+figures+aux pieces that EES can build from?

Answer 1

I submitted a manuscript written in LaTeX a few months ago to an Elsevier journal. I simply uploaded the pdf I had built as the main document and supplied the.tex and .bib files as "supplemental files not for publication and not for review". I'm not sure if this is the correct way to do it, but it worked without any problems and I've always sumbitted my LaTeX papers this way.

Answer 2

I could not make my .bib to be correctly compiled online. The solution I used was to compile it at home, then comment out the \bibliography{BIBLIO} line and copy and past the content of the .bbl file (same as cyberSingularity's comment).

This solution was suggested to me by a member of Elsevier staff on the help chat. You should try that feature ; hey can be really helpful. See here.

Figures were not a problem for me. Just adding them with something like

\begin{figure}
  \centering
  \includegraphics[width=\linewidth]{img01.pdf}
  \caption{A nice picture of an elephant.}
  \label{fig:elephant}
\end{figure}

worked properly. Figures can be uploaded in one go using a .zip file.

Answer 3

I struggled with this, but it turns out to be really easy.

Upload the following hypothetical items individually as "Manuscript"

Smith_paper.tex
Smith_paper.bib
Figure_1.pdf
Figure_2.pdf
Table_1.pdf

And then the EES should compile it properly (it worked for me).