Response letter的主要目的是回復(fù)你采納了審稿人哪些有助于提高論文質(zhì)量的意見，并表明做出了哪些修改,。所以這意味著不必同意審稿人所有建議的更改,，但是你需要知道如何以適當(dāng)?shù)姆绞秸f(shuō)明為什么拒絕修改。

在本文中,，小編將給大家分享如何有效地寫好一封Response letter,。

公眾號(hào)回復(fù)“response letter”即可獲得一些有用的表達(dá)和Response letter模板

第一個(gè)部分：General Response

除了開頭要提到的基本信息（如編輯姓名，期刊名字,，論文標(biāo)題,，Manuscript ID）之外，這個(gè)部分還需要總的表達(dá)一下對(duì)編輯和審稿人的感謝,，表示已經(jīng)解決了審稿人提出來(lái)的所有問(wèn)題與建議,，并表明下文回復(fù)審稿人意見的格式（加粗/斜體/字體顏色）。在感謝部分要注意的是,，盡量不要說(shuō)例如“Thank you for your comments, which have helped us to substantially/greatly improve the manuscript.” 的話,，評(píng)論稿件質(zhì)量是審稿人的工作，不要冒昧地夸贊自己做出的修改,。

• We appreciate all of the valuable comments from the reviewers of our work. We have revised our manuscript, according to the reviewers’ comments, questions, and suggestions.

• We highly appreciate the reviewers for their insightful comments and criticism, which have helped us improve both the content and the presentation of our work. We believe that the revised version of our paper addresses all concerns by the referees in detail.

• We greatly appreciate the thorough and thoughtful comments provided on our submitted article. We made sure that each one of the reviewer comments has been addressed carefully and the paper is revised accordingly.

• In what follows the referees’ comments are in black and the authors’ responses are in red.

• We have incorporated most of the suggestions made by the reviewers. Those changes are highlighted within the manuscript.[修改的部分高亮] Please see below, in blue, for a point-by-point response to the reviewers’  comments and concerns. [回復(fù)的部分用藍(lán)色字體]

如果根據(jù)審稿人的意見,，你有對(duì)稿件進(jìn)行大的修改,，不妨用一個(gè)簡(jiǎn)潔的段落總結(jié)一下所做的主要更改以及它們是否會(huì)影響你對(duì)研究結(jié)果的原始解釋。

We made three notable changes to the manuscript,...

第二個(gè)部分：Point-to-Point Response

• 在這個(gè)部分里,，一個(gè)清晰的格式和排版非常重要,。讓編輯看得省心，你的論文才能省心地順利發(fā)表,。首先要將段落式的評(píng)審意見拆成點(diǎn)列式,，然后編號(hào)逐點(diǎn)回復(fù)，推薦以下這個(gè)格式,。

Responses to the comments of Reviewer #1

1. [Comment]

Response: ...

[具體修改的內(nèi)容]

2. [Comment]

Response: ...

Responses to the comments of Reviewer #2
...

• 具體回復(fù)的時(shí)候要做到禮貌尊重,，理?yè)?jù)充分，逐點(diǎn)回復(fù),，清晰明了

• 禮貌尊重：所有的審稿人都花費(fèi)了一定時(shí)間精力來(lái)評(píng)估你的工作,，即使有些意見可能不是那么正面，但也不是針對(duì)個(gè)人,，只是為了給你的工作帶來(lái)附加價(jià)值,，當(dāng)你遇到不合理的意見和要求時(shí)，語(yǔ)氣還是應(yīng)該保持平和,。在某些情況下,，你可能會(huì)認(rèn)為審稿人是競(jìng)爭(zhēng)對(duì)手，他用別有用心的理由來(lái)延遲稿件,。在這種情況下,，不應(yīng)在回復(fù)中直接面對(duì)審稿人,，而應(yīng)在另一封信中將您的疑慮傳達(dá)給編輯,。

• 理?yè)?jù)充分：無(wú)論是同意還是拒絕做出審稿人建議的更改，一定要有理有據(jù),，一般來(lái)說(shuō)可以結(jié)合論文的研究實(shí)際,，實(shí)驗(yàn)條件，或者引用一些文獻(xiàn)來(lái)回應(yīng)審稿人的顧慮,。

• 逐點(diǎn)回復(fù)：這意味著不能把審稿人的意見搪塞過(guò)去,，要認(rèn)真讀清楚審稿人的建議，一定要確認(rèn)編輯和審稿人提出的所有意見都有回復(fù)到,。而且要分別回應(yīng)每個(gè)審稿人,，不要用“請(qǐng)參閱我們對(duì)第2個(gè)審稿人的評(píng)論xx的回答”來(lái)回應(yīng)另一位審稿人。

• 清晰明了：除了大量修改后的文本太長(zhǎng)而無(wú)法引用,，盡可能地把修改的具體內(nèi)容在response letter里面提出來(lái),，讓審稿人或編輯不必閱讀稿件即可找到所做的更改。并應(yīng)該說(shuō)明這些修改的位置(i.e., page number, paragraph, and/or line),，但應(yīng)確保指定是引用原始手稿還是修訂稿中的位置,。

那么如何去具體地回復(fù)批評(píng)或意見呢,？下面列了幾種常見的情況供大家參考。
值得注意的是,，Response letter是發(fā)給編輯看的,，雖然其他審稿人也能看見你的Peer Review File，但還是應(yīng)該在回復(fù)的過(guò)程中使用第三人稱提及審稿人,，如“We agree with the reviewer”而不是“We agree with You”,。

• 增加數(shù)據(jù)/圖表

We have added a comment in the section “...” to point out the...
we have inserted two new figures to provide clear illustration of...

• 增加引用（如果有要求，盡量都要增加）

We added the two references and commented on them in Section 6.2.4 and Section 6.5.
These references have been added and discussed in the paper -- Sections 6.2.4 and 6.5.1

• 語(yǔ)言問(wèn)題

The paper is checked again to improve its Grammar.
The said sentence is rephrased to make the sentence easy to understand

• 審稿人提出了類似的意見

如果有多個(gè)注釋建議進(jìn)行類似的修訂,，例如特定的語(yǔ)法錯(cuò)誤或更改關(guān)鍵術(shù)語(yǔ),，則可以對(duì)所有此類注釋提供一般性答復(fù)。例如：
We have corrected the grammatical issues pointed out in the manuscript and accompanying figures and tables;
The suggested key terms have been used throughout the manuscript.

• 提出的問(wèn)題其實(shí)已經(jīng)在原稿中提到過(guò)

在這里你可以選擇滿足審稿人的要求,，簡(jiǎn)單地以不同表達(dá)在稿件的其他部分重復(fù)這些信息:
We mentioned there were 45 samples in total in the Methods (page 6, line 4), but we have now also added the following to the start of the Results section to avoid any potential confusion: 'Of the 45 samples tested, 9…' (page 8, lines 19-20).

There were 15 samples in each of the 3 groups (Methods, page 3, line 20). We have reworded the text to state the total of 45 samples explicitly.

The total sample number was 45, as mentioned in Table 1. We have now added this to the main text for clarity (Procedure, page 3, line 7).

We have mentioned the limitations in the paper. To reiterate(重復(fù)一下), ...

• 不同審稿人的意見有沖突時(shí)

在回復(fù)編輯處：
[提出沖突的地方]Reviewer 1 suggests that...,Reviewer 2, on the other hand, would like to see...
[提出你的看法]We considered...,so we are eager to know your perspective on the matter.
[兩個(gè)版本都可以提供] In fact, we tried the revisions that way at first and would be happy to send that version along as well if it might be helpful.

• 審稿人覺(jué)得你的研究沒(méi)有創(chuàng)新性

While we appreciate the reviewer’s feedback, we respectfully disagree. We think this study makes a valuable contribution to the field because [描述您的研究或其結(jié)果所獲得的知識(shí),、提供的見解、回答的問(wèn)題等].

• 需要拒絕審稿人的建議/無(wú)法增做實(shí)驗(yàn)

拒絕之前,，請(qǐng)首先考慮一下 1.審稿人的評(píng)論是否暗示您對(duì)工作的解釋不夠清楚,？2.評(píng)論是否涉及您之前未曾考慮過(guò)的重要觀點(diǎn)或觀點(diǎn)？3.滿足要求以便通過(guò)同行評(píng)審僅需要相對(duì)較小的更改,，而不會(huì)影響您的論文結(jié)果或聲譽(yù),？如果回答是的話，請(qǐng)老老實(shí)實(shí)地按要求修改吧~

對(duì)于增加實(shí)驗(yàn),，你可以揣摩審稿人的態(tài)度的強(qiáng)硬,，并考慮其他審稿人的好評(píng)程度，編輯的傾向性,。如果總體比較樂(lè)觀,，其他審稿人和編輯也傾向于修，那么盡量小補(bǔ)實(shí)驗(yàn) + 增加一些思路上的分析,。如果總體意見不太樂(lè)觀,，編輯也不太看好本文，那么還是要盡全力補(bǔ)充實(shí)驗(yàn),，畢竟補(bǔ)了后發(fā)表機(jī)會(huì)會(huì)更大些,。

1. 要求你進(jìn)行新的研究
   你可以說(shuō)：我們同意這么做非常重要，鑒于這次的研究范圍和重點(diǎn)/實(shí)驗(yàn)條件技術(shù),，我們無(wú)法實(shí)施,，我們會(huì)在討論部分提到這部分內(nèi)容/會(huì)以后的研究中進(jìn)行考慮。還可以找相關(guān)的文獻(xiàn)（近年發(fā)表的,、分?jǐn)?shù)稍高于你所投雜志）來(lái)說(shuō)明他們也是這樣進(jìn)行實(shí)驗(yàn)的/他們都是這個(gè)角度來(lái)解釋的,。
   可以使用這些關(guān)鍵詞："follow-up study," "future research/consideration," "new direction," "outside the scope of the study this time," "We agree …, but we prefer to focus on,"

   We would also be interested in the effect on xxx. The data that we have cannot reveal this, but our protocols could be modified for a follow-up study.

   We agree that the effect on xxx is an important line of study. We have now acknowledged this and suggested it as a topic for further research in the Discussion section of the revised manuscript (page 12, lines 24–29).

   We agree that the effect on xxx would be interesting to know. Our study was designed to focus specifically on xxx this time and we'd like to keep the focus intact, but we have included your point as a consideration for future study (page 15, lines 9–12). Thank you for the suggestion.

   [指出困難]There is a number of complications/ It clearly goes beyond the state of the art. （超出了技術(shù)水平）, which prevent a further and more detailed analysis of these processes within the scope of this manuscript. 

2. 你不同意審稿人對(duì)你論文的理解
   你可以說(shuō)：謝謝你提出來(lái)的建議，但是我們強(qiáng)調(diào)的是...；為了避免誤會(huì),，我們已經(jīng)在xxx改寫了相關(guān)表述
   可以使用這些關(guān)鍵詞："clarify", "ambiguity", "could be understood in this way," "Thank you for pointing out the potential for misunderstanding"

   Several statements that we made were more ambiguous than intended, and we have adjusted the text to be clearer.

   Thank you for pointing out that our statement could be understood in this way. We did not mean that the results apply to all computers but only to single-core computers. We have clarified the explanation in Section 2 to highlight why our results are limited to single-core computers.

   Our data do not support the statement that our results apply to all computers at this stage. To avoid potential misunderstanding, we have reworded our hypothesis statement to focus on single-core computers only.

   We have reworded the text to state the scope of our research was focused on single-core computers, rather than all computers. Thank you for pointing out the ambiguity of our statement.

   We mostly agree. Where we differ is with the idea that there is nothing wrong with the risk factor approach. As we describe in the paper,

第三部分：結(jié)束語(yǔ)

注意信的結(jié)尾,，像 “Since all the corrections have been made, we hope the manuscript will now be accepted without any further changes” 這樣的結(jié)尾可能會(huì)過(guò)于自負(fù)。

我們可以這么說(shuō)：“We look forward to hearing from you regarding our submission. We would be glad to respond to any further questions and comments that you may have”,，這樣的結(jié)尾有禮貌也表達(dá)了愿意在必要的情況下進(jìn)行更多修改的意愿,。

• TIPS：

有的期刊部分文章，如PeerJ(https:///reviews/),，nature research的Supplementary information里的Peer Review File都有公開同行評(píng)議的過(guò)程,，大家可以進(jìn)一步了解審稿人問(wèn)了什么問(wèn)題，作者是如何回復(fù)的,。

最后,，務(wù)必要檢查退還修訂論文的截止日期，要在編輯指定的時(shí)間內(nèi)返回修改后的稿件和response letter,。一些期刊編輯在給你的信中指出了這一點(diǎn),。如果沒(méi)有，很可能會(huì)錯(cuò)過(guò)提交日期,。如果在任何階段你認(rèn)為無(wú)法按照規(guī)定的期限提交重新提交,，請(qǐng)務(wù)必告知期刊編輯。

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