I think I have found the answer as far as Elsevier articles are concerned (I am using elsarticle.cls). elsarticle-num.bst requires entries in the BibTeX database to be preceded with a \bibitem tag, e.g.

\bibitem{
 @article{Bridgman1914,
  author = {P. W. Bridgman},
  title = {A complete collection of thermodynamic formulas},
  journal = {Physical Review},
  year = {1914},
  volume = {3},
  issue = {4},
  pages = {273--281},
 }
}


If this is done the references should appear sorted in the article.

Set natbib options after loading natbib package
I have a drive on my Ubuntu machine shared over a network, and one of the computers that can access it is a Windows 7 computer.

Whenever I am on my Windows computer and I copy a file to the Ubuntu shared folder, it appears as owned by nobody, and with limited permissions:

-rwxr--r--  1 nobody nogroup


I always have to go to the command line on the Ubuntu side and issue a chown command to make it so that I have permissions to edit the file. Until I do, I can't move or copy it, and it won't sync with Dropbox.

How can I make it so that when I copy files from my Windows machine they automatically are owned by me (I only have one user account on my Ubuntu machine) and I have the permission to edit and move them freely?
