Respond to peer review comments and manage manuscript revisions. Use when drafting response letters, tracking changes across versions, or addressing reviewer concerns. Works well with scientific-style and human-writing skills.
This guide covers responding to peer review and managing the revision process.
Combine with: scientific-style for appropriate hedging, human-writing for clear prose.
Response to Reviewers
Manuscript ID: [ID]
Title: [Title]
Authors: [Authors]
We thank the editor and reviewers for their constructive feedback.
We have carefully considered each comment and revised the manuscript
accordingly. Our point-by-point responses are below.
Page and line numbers refer to the revised manuscript with track changes.
REVIEWER 1
Comment 1.1: [Quote or paraphrase the comment]
Response: [Your response]
Changes made: [Specific changes with page/line numbers, or "No changes made"]
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Comment 1.2: [Next comment]
...
We believe these revisions have substantially improved the manuscript
and hope it is now suitable for publication in [Journal].
Sincerely,
[Corresponding author]
| Comment Type | Strategy |
|---|---|
| Minor correction | Thank, agree, fix, cite location |
| Clarification request | Thank, explain, add text if needed |
| Additional analysis | Agree if feasible, explain if not, provide results |
| Methodological concern | Address directly, explain rationale, add detail |
| Interpretation disagreement | Acknowledge perspective, explain reasoning, modify if warranted |
| Literature gap | Thank, add citations, discuss relevance |
| Impossible request | Explain why, offer alternative |
| Instead of | Use |
|---|---|
| "The reviewer is wrong" | "We respectfully disagree because..." |
| "We already said this" | "We have clarified this point by..." |
| "This is beyond scope" | "While this is an important question, it is beyond the scope of the current study because..." |
| "We can't do this" | "Unfortunately, [reason]. As an alternative, we have..." |
We thank the reviewer for this suggestion. We have [made change] as
recommended. See page X, lines Y-Z.
We appreciate this comment. While we agree that [aspect], we believe
[other aspect] because [reasoning]. We have addressed this by [action].
We thank the reviewer for raising this point. We respectfully disagree
because [clear reasoning with evidence]. However, we have [action to
address underlying concern] to clarify our position.
We appreciate this suggestion. Unfortunately, [specific reason why not