Submission to Information Sciences Uploading Latex experience:

Submission to Information Sciences and experience in uploading LaTex:

Foreword:

Since *Information Sciences does not support PDF, you can only submit the word version or LaTex version.

1. Directly download the Elsevier official Laxtex template and import the template into the Overleaf online compiler.

• Place the pictures, tables, etc. used in your Latex source code and the tex files in the same flat folder, that is, do not create special folders for pictures and tables, as shown in the right picture below, all files are flat together. Note: At this time, the path to load the image in fig1.tex or Table1.tex should be set to such as: ./fig1.pdf instead of fig/fig1.pdf;
• Compile the Latex manuscript and make sure there are no errors as much as possible, and the warnings can be ignored;
• In short, all the files need to be flattened without creating additional folders, and then compiled.
  

2. There are still some differences between Information Sciences ' own online compiler and Overleaf. In order to prevent the local Overleaf compiler from successfully compiling but failing after uploading, we have solved two problems in advance:

   Direct reference is as follows: Elsevier latex submit article pdftex.def Error: File `thumbnails/cas-email.jpeg' not found: using draf , where the thumbnails folder is deleted directly, cas-email.jpeg is in the online compiler of Information Sciences It will also be provided, so you don’t need to submit this file. In short, just organize all the files into the right part as shown above.

3. After the Latex manuscript is compiled correctly in the Overleaf online compiler, as shown below, click the Menu button
   

As shown in the picture below, click Tex version in turn and select 2022 (I used the local software TeXstudio to compile before, and the upload system would report an error! The reason may be that my TeXstudio is the 2020 version, which is inconsistent with the one in the system!!); finally click Source, and the upload system will report an error! All files are downloaded locally in the form of compressed packages.

4. Unzip the compressed package to get the final file to be uploaded to the system, as shown in the figure below
   
5. Prepare to upload system:

• Upload the four files template.tex, .sty, .cls, and .bib in order, with the label Manuscript (some posts say that blb files need to be uploaded. When I upload the bbl file compiled with Texstudio software, an error will be reported when uploading it. Later, I directly used The project compiled by Overleaf is uploaded directly, even if the bbl file is not uploaded, it is successful)

• Upload all .tex files to the system, still labeled Manuscript

  

• Upload the picture, label it Figure, and upload the rest of the files in sequence.
  

Additional:

• The following error is the result of the error after uploading the file compiled with Texstudio software. I suspect it is due to the version. After uploading it to Overleaf, this problem disappears.
  

• If there are still errors, you can Ctrl+F in the final generated document and search for Error: Search and solve specific errors.

reference:

• https://zhuanlan.zhihu.com/p/399798087

• If it can be compiled normally in overleaf, but if the PDF generated in the submission system reports "! LaTeX Error: Environment graphicalabstract undefined." and other similar errors, the reason is that the "elsarticle.cls" file is missing. You need to generate "elsarticle.cls" and then upload it in step "Attach Files". The way to generate it is to open the latex directory of the paper in cmd and then execute latex elsarticle.ins. It took me an afternoon to figure it out.

• https://zhuanlan.zhihu.com/p/384139917

• https://zhuanlan.zhihu.com/p/384139917

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