Today I had to submit a paper through the Editorial Manager (used by Springer) for the first time. Needless to say that it’s not as easy as it sounds. Therefore here some helpful links for everyone having to do the same. I ended up putting the references in the .tex file as nothing else worked for me. http://www.bartneck.de/2010/09/30/submitting-your-latex-manuscript-to-editorial-manager-springer-elsevier/ http://drezha.me.uk/post/22719621060/submitting-a-springerlink-elsvier-journal-using