I removed that option because i didn't want an extra page. Rename .gz files according to names in separate txt-file. For me this solution taken from here worked for an elsarticle document: Thanks for contributing an answer to TeX - LaTeX Stack Exchange! If it's relevant, I'll be using the titlepage option, as in \documentclass[titlepage]{article}. elsarticle . ]]> Here the subscripts a, b, and c were used to indicate the affiliation (information) of individual authors. //-->