I love TeX, LaTeX and other scripting and markup languages.

I have strong feeling about all publishers! I have spend days and weeks fighting submission systems. I remember once it was about choosing between some version 2 and 3. This time I had to upload bbl file. Why can not I simply submit from overleaf.com to editorialmanager (like to arXiv)?

In overleaf it is “vital” to set your main document as the main document in the settings! – that was not intuitive at all. Still, overleaf did not show compilation files. So I had to fake submission to arXiv to download the zip with all files, including bbl, like in this instruction – that was not obvious at all.

What I have learned today is this way of submitting a LaTeX source. Start submission to arXiv, get the zip file, remove unnecessary files, upload this refined zip to editorialmanager or other platform. Save your time and nerves!