Reviewing a revised manuscript

This is normally a quicker process than reviewing an original manuscript. The deadline for your comments will be 5–21 days, depending on the journal. If you need an extension please get in touch with the editorial office.

When reviewing a revised manuscript, you are checking that the revisions are satisfactory. You will receive a copy of the revised manuscript as well as the author’s response to the reviewer reports.

Please note that any author response attachments can be found by clicking on the “Details” tab above the PDF of the manuscript on the reviewer report:

You will then need to scroll down to “Version History”, and click the blue text next to “Response”:

If there is no link in this section, then the author response can be found in our initial invitation email with the previous reviewer reports.

It is generally not appropriate to request additional changes (not mentioned in your original reviewer report) at this stage.

If the author fails to answer your criticisms, please check the ‘Unsatisfactory Revision’ box on the reviewer report form and describe the areas that were not addressed in the revision in your comments.

You will be invited to update the original quality assessment scores you provided with your original review. If you feel the paper has been improved, your scores should increase.

You will be asked to give a recommendation. The editor will take into account your recommendation along with those provided by any other reviewers. Your recommendation should be either:

• Accept
• Amendments required before acceptance
• Unsatisfactory revision