How to Respond to Reviewer Comments

A practical guide for authors who have received a major or minor revision decision from a journal. It explains that a request for revision is not a rejection, how to read the decision letter for the deadline, required files and the editor's priorities, and how to list and number every reviewer comment. It shows how to write a point-by-point response letter that quotes each comment, states what was changed and exactly where (page and line), and disagrees politely and with evidence when needed, while making every change in the manuscript itself and keeping the response your own work. Read the full, updated guide: https://www.ontimepublication.com/guides/respond-to-reviewer-comments.html. Prepared by the On Time Publication Editorial Team, an online academic publication consultancy based in the United Kingdom offering manuscript editing, journal selection and submission support, medical manuscript editing, PhD thesis editing and white papers. This document is free to read and share under CC BY 4.0, and the online version links to the official sources so you can verify each point yourself.