Navigating the Peer Review Process 11-13
The letter below asks for minor revisions. Note that the editor says that the manuscript was well received but that some changes need to be made.
Dear Dr. X:
Thank you for submitting your manuscript to [name of journal]. The manuscript has been reviewed favorably and tentatively accepted pending satisfactory completion of minor revisions. We have included comments we consider to be relevant for revision. Your resubmission should be accompanied by a point-by- point response to the reviewer comments, as well as a copy of the revised manuscript on which you highlight the areas where revisions have been made. It is essential that authors consider and respond to the comments and recommendations. The updated Instructions to Contributors (which can also be found at [journal’s URL])…. To facilitate the editorial process, we ask that you revise and return your manuscript as soon as possible. Should you have any questions, please do not hesitate to contact our editorial office.
Yours truly, Editor-in-Chief
Reviewers’ Comments and Authors’ Responses
Some authors see a decision letter asking for revisions as the next best thing to an acceptance, and in some ways, it is. However, whether the manuscript is accepted depends on how well you re vise the manuscript in accordance with the reviewers’ comments. These comments therefore need to be taken very seriously. View the comments as an opportunity to make your data shine and really make them worthwhile to the scientific community. Here is an ex ample of a thoughtful reviewer’s comments on a manuscript accepted pending revisions. It is customary to include with a revised manuscript a letter or list that includes point-by-point responses to each comment by each reviewer, and after the comments belo w is an example of an author’s response to them.
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