Really no LaTeX? All these obscure formatting rules, and ban the one tool that can make sure everyone actually follows them consistently? Have they no love for ligatures?!
LaTeX is great for people doing their own typesetting (creating their own camera-ready copy) but if your work is going to be produced professionally, comp will be using something like 3B2 to lay it out. The folks who need to work on the manuscript before it gets laid out (copyeditors, development editors, rights and perms editors, and so on) don't work in LaTeX. It's easiest to work with one universal file type anyone can create easily (Word's not the best by a long shot but it's ubiquitous). The manuscript gets converted to XML on the backend anyhow and all the formatting the author put in it is stripped out and redone. The formatting asked for at submission is to make the file easy for the editor to read and manipulate, not for final publication. TL;DR your submission file (for pro pubs) is not for camera, it's for editors—and they by-and-large work in Word. I've produced math, stats, RSM, informatics, and comp sci publications and this has true for those. MathType is usually preferred for notation and equations over LaTeX.
Really no LaTeX? All these obscure formatting rules, and ban the one tool that can make sure everyone actually follows them consistently? Have they no love for ligatures?!
LaTeX is great for people doing their own typesetting (creating their own camera-ready copy) but if your work is going to be produced professionally, comp will be using something like 3B2 to lay it out. The folks who need to work on the manuscript before it gets laid out (copyeditors, development editors, rights and perms editors, and so on) don't work in LaTeX. It's easiest to work with one universal file type anyone can create easily (Word's not the best by a long shot but it's ubiquitous). The manuscript gets converted to XML on the backend anyhow and all the formatting the author put in it is stripped out and redone. The formatting asked for at submission is to make the file easy for the editor to read and manipulate, not for final publication. TL;DR your submission file (for pro pubs) is not for camera, it's for editors—and they by-and-large work in Word. I've produced math, stats, RSM, informatics, and comp sci publications and this has true for those. MathType is usually preferred for notation and equations over LaTeX.