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      Fifteen examples of editorial managers used for manuscript submission to 14 Elsevier journals for which submission of the manuscript file was not indicated as a mandatory item, discovered during submissions by the author to these journals. (a) Educational Research Review; (b) The Leadership Quarterly; (c) Journal of Plant Physiology; (d) Biochemical and Biophysical Research Communications; (e) International Journal of Information Management; (f) Diabetes & Metabolic Syndrome: Clinical Research & Reviews; (g) Plant Stress; (h) Journal of Business Venturing; (i) Progress in Neurobiology; (j) Emotion, Space and Society; (k) Neuroscience & Biobehavioral Reviews; (l) Journal of Business Research; (m) Journal of Plant Physiology; (n) Early Human Development. Editorial manager: Editorial Manager® (Aries Systems Corporation). Data collected (i.e., discovery and accompanying screenshots) between 31 January and 22 April 2023. Screenshots (Fair Use) trimmed to include only basic relevant information, so not all items in all drop-down menus are displayed. In one case (e), the author had already uploaded the mandatory files when the screenshot was taken, explaining the green text and ticks not present in the other screenshots (in which mandatory items are listed to the left of the drop-down menu as red text and bullets). In two cases (j, k), 'Required for Submission' is missing. Even though (c) and (m) are the same journal (Journal of Plant Physiology), the content of their drop-down menus changed considerably between sampling dates: 27 February 2023 and 16 April 2023, respectively.