Respond to Reviewers

There are two ways to handle an Author’s response to Reviewers:

1)     Authors ‘respond’ to Reviewer comments by typing their responses in a Word document (or some other format) and uploading the file as part of the submission.  The responses are then built into the PDF, but are not explicitly stored in the database for further viewing in the system.

2)     A ‘Respond to Reviewers’ Submission Step (configurable by Article Type) can be displayed on the ‘Submit Revision’ interface.  The Author can click the ‘View Decision Letter’ link to view the decision letter, which includes the blinded comments from each Reviewer.  The Author can then respond to each Reviewer’s comments, by typing (or copy and pasting) responses into the textbox. 

If the ‘Respond to Reviewers’ step is ‘Required’ on the 'Edit Article Type' page, the Author cannot build the revision PDF until text has been entered in the ‘Respond to Reviewers’ textbox.

The Author has access to his own responses to Reviewer Comments in the ‘Revisions Being Processed’ and ‘Submissions with Decision’ folders in the Author Main Menu.