怎样写好国外期刊修改稿的Cover_Letter

Cover Letter是一篇文章的外衣,对国外投稿能否成功很关键,一般投稿时的Cover Letter并不是很重要,只要说明你稿件的研究方向及创新点,并声明没有在其他期刊发表过.最难写的就是Revised Manuscript中的Cover Letter,这将关系到是否录用你的稿件,或要进一步审稿.国外专家讲求的是精益求精,老外们对文章都很严谨的,一个单词哪怕是一个介词的使用都是很有考究的,因此会提出很多似乎对文章无关紧要的修改意见,但是这你要给予充分的重视.通过国外发表几篇文章后,开始一直失败,但是我没有放弃,通过总结现在将一些经验和大家分享,以免大家走很多不必要的弯路.

为了更好理解,我用我发的一篇文章作为例子来说明:

这里是期刊审稿人的修改意见:

Dear *****,

The review of your manuscript, Thermal Decomposition and Kinetics Studies on 1, 4-dinitropiperazine (DNP), submitted to Journal of Hazardous Materials has been completed. The reviewers recommend the need for minor revisions. Please revise your manuscript according to the reviewers' comments attached, and re-submit to me your revised version of the manuscript including an itemized response to each reviewer's comments.

Please submit your revised submission before Jul 11, 2007. I will then begin the re-review process.

Please note that revised manuscripts will be sent for review because revising a manuscript does not automatically mean it will be accepted for publication.

For your guidance, reviewers' comments are appended below.

On your Main Menu page is a folder entitled "Submissions Needing Revision". You will find your submission record there.

Please ensure that the article conforms to the format of the Journal. In particular make sure that all the articles in your references have titles included. The Journal Guide for Authors is available on the Journal homepage

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When submitting your revised manuscript, please ensure that you upload the source files (e.g. Word). Uploading a PDF file at this stage will create delays should your manuscript be finally accepted for publication. If your revised submission does not include the source files, we will contact you to request them.

Once again, thank you for your interest in Journal of Hazardous Materials.

Yours sincerely,

Merv Fingas, PhD

Editor

Journal of Hazardous Materials

Reviewers' comments:

Reviewer #1: The paper reports on the thermal decomposition and kinetics of DNP.

It is a welcome addition to the literature and appectable for publication after some revision:

(i) Please provide large basis-set DFT calculations to support the assignment of the IR bands of DNP.

(ii) Please assign ALL IR bands of Fig. 5

Reviewer #2: authors have carried out work on the thermal analysis of the dinitropiperazine. The new information reported in the paper is scanty. The large amount of data has been already reported by the several researchers on the thermal analysis of dinitropiperazine (See the reference section of the paper and also reviewer has done the scopus search). The only new information reported in this paper is of the