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Which journals accept LaTeX files?

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  1. dvw
    Member

    Can we produce a list here saying which journals accept LaTeX files and which ones do not, and which ones use LaTeX for the typesetting? (This is a follow-up to ".) Do publishers in the humanities like LaTeX?" Most journals accept PDF for submission (does anyone know a journal that does not PDF submissions?), but the question is whether afterwards, for typesetting, they require a RTF file or so. The 'instructions for authors' often do not say, so I would like to hear from everyone here who has tried. I start:

    There are many journals which accept PDF submissions but I do not know whether they require a RTF file if the article is accepted: MIND, Journal of Philosophy, Philosophy and Phenomenological Research, Nous.

    Synthese (Kluwer): accepts LaTeX files.

    Analysis: does NOT accept LaTeX.

    Dialectica (Blackwell): I think I read a while ago that they accept LaTeX files, but now I could not find it. My last LaTeX submission there I had to convert to RTF because the special editor wanted it, but that might not be a general policy.

    A related question: Is your experience that the editor makes no changes in a manuscript without telling the author, except uncontroversial spelling mistakes? Already commas are sometimes relevant to the content and, in my view, should not be changed without consulting the author. BTW, I find that PDFs (I use format A5 because Letter or A4 are half empty or have terribly long lines) with line numbers are ideal for the editing process. dvw

    Posted 9 months ago #

  2. Kevin Klement
    Key Master

    Most of the editors -- well probably the copyeditors not the general editors -- love to make all sorts of changes without consulting the author. Moving, adding, deleting, punctuation, changing "e.g." and "i.e." to "for example" and "that is", and other changes. One changed all my "since"s to "as". Annoying.

    A list of journals that accept LaTeX would be nice, but my memory is not so well. Anyway, the logic journals tend to, which definitely includes

    Bulletin of Symbolic Logic

    and

    Review of Symbolic Logic

    where I've published lately.

    Posted 9 months ago #

  3. Chris E
    Member

    DVW notes above that there are journals which accept PDFs for initial submissions, but may require RTF for final processing. There are also journals whose publishers who will accept LaTeX for final processing (e.g. Springer journals) but where the editors will not accept LaTeX or PDF for initial submission. In a way this might be preferable, since what goes in the journal in the end is what you coded in LaTeX, reducing errors in the final publication (from the process of typesetting from Word). But of course, it also requires TeX to RTF conversion for first submissions, and I have not been real pleased with the apps/workflows available to Mac users for doing that, especially to those users like me who aren't comfortable compiling their own apps from source code.

    Posted 7 months ago #

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