Thanks Stefano, I now seem to be tantalizingly close to creating a zip folder (or zip archive?) to send to Philosophical Studies. I've created a .bib file that contains only the references I use in my paper, but this file is inside the Mendeley Desktop. And I *cannot* move it to any other location. So in particular I can't get it into the folder that contains the .tex file of my manuscript. If only I could do that, I think I would be able to apply WinZip to create the zipped entity (file?, folder?, archive?) I need, which I could then send to Philosophical Studies.
I'm in philosophy at the University of Minnesota in Minneapolis, by the way. I've met Chris only once or twice, but we've corresponded. I admire his work. Bill On Tue, Apr 17, 2012 at 6:01 PM, stefano franchi <stefano.fran...@gmail.com>wrote: > On Tue, Apr 17, 2012 at 2:23 PM, William Hanson <whan...@umn.edu> wrote: > > Stefano, > > > > I don't know what you mean when you say I should "run latex and then > bibtex > > on your > > file". I've already exported my original LyX file using your > > "File>>Export>>Latex(plain)" instruction. So I now have both a .lyx and > a > > .tex version of my file. I am using bibtex, by the way. > > > > I meant you need to run the latex program on the .tex file you > exported from Lyx. How to do that depends (slightly) on which platform > you work on. > But forget about that: I just checked the Springer instructions for > Philosophical studies, and, as I suspected, they accept multi-file > manuscript zipped into a single archive. So my suggestion is to avoid > the complications of extracting the references and instead pack both > your lyx-exported .tex file and your bibliography (in a bib file) into > a single archive and then upload that. > How to do that, again, depends on your platform. If you are on Windows > there are many utilities that allow you to create zip archives. I > don't use Windows, so I can't be precise, but I vaguely remember a > program called WinZip that did just that. Windows users on this list > may provide more specific advice. > On lInux, you'd just use the zip command from the command line. Open a > terminal window, move to the directory where your tex and bib files > are: > > $cd /my/working/directory > > and then issue the zip command: > > $zip my_manuscript_archive my_file.tex my_references.bib > > that will produce a file called my_manuscript_archive.zip, which you > can then upload to the Springer site > > On the Mac, you can do the same thing, I believe. Mac users may want > to provide more specific advice. > > Note that Springer usually requires that your .bib file contains only > the references you use in your manuscript. If you have a bib file > with other references (as most people do), you should save it as a new > file and then eliminate all the extra references (how to do that > depends on which software you use to manage your references). > > > > Since you're a philosopher and at Texas A&M, you must know Chris Menzel. > > I certainly do. We were even in the same dept for a few years. > > > Cheers, > > Stefano > > > -- > __________________________________________________ > Stefano Franchi > Associate Research Professor > Department of Hispanic Studies Ph: +1 (979) 845-2125 > Texas A&M University Fax: +1 (979) 845-6421 > College Station, Texas, USA > > stef...@tamu.edu > http://stefano.cleinias.org >
