response letter写法
Response-Letter-投稿回复信
Response LetterPaper number: NODY-D-15-00088Paper title: Event-Triggered Control for Multi-Agent Network with Limited Digital CommunicationAuthors:Dear Editor-in-chief, Associate Editor and Anonymous Reviewers,We would like to thank you for your efforts in reviewing our manuscript and providing many helpful comments and suggestions. Those comments are all valuable and very helpful for revising and improving our paper, as well as the important guiding significance to our researches. We have studied comments very carefully. Based on your criticisms, comments and suggestions, we have revised the manuscript accordingly. The details are explained below, where the number of the response is in correspondence with the number of the reviewers’ comments and su ggestions.Reply to the Associate EditorAccording to the AE’s and reviewers’ criticisms, comments and suggestions, we have modified the manuscript carefully. The description of a substantial revision and the detailed points to the review reports can be seen in the following responses and in the new revision. Moreover, we have also checked other derivations throughout the paper and some necessary explanations are also included.We would like to thank the reviewer’s great efforts in reading our manuscript and for your constructive comments and suggestions. Our responses to the comments and suggestions are listed as follows:1. Consensus with communication constraints is indeed a quite interesting topic in field of multi-agent systems, the following work on consensus of second-order multi-agent systems may be briefly mentioned: Int. J. Robust and Nonlinear Control, 22(2):170-182, 2012.Reply:The relevant works of communication constraints in Int. J. Robust and Nonlinear Control is really worth mentioning, and this reference has been added in new revision.2. The communication topology is assumed to be undirected, whether it is possible to do some further work on directed or switching topologies. One more remark may be added to the manuscript to state this issue.Reply:This suggestion is very nice and reasonable. The directed and switching topologies cases will be our future works, and the remark has been provided in the future works part of conclusion.We would like to thank the reviewer ’s great efforts in reading our manuscript and for your constructive comments and suggestions. Our responses to the comments and suggestions are listed as follows:1. The proof of Theorem 1 is not clear. It didn’t show what is the convergence setvery important obviously. Reply: This suggestion is very helpful, and I have rewritten the Theorem 1. I’m sure the new version is much clearer than the old one.2. There are some errors in the proof of Theorem 1. For example,(i) How to determine l in the last line of formula (16). There is no any constraint for l.(ii) The same problem appeared in the last line and previous line of formula (18).Reply: I am very sorry for my carelessness. The last expression ˆ(t )l ll k xin formula (16) and (18) should be replaced by ˆ(t )i ii k x. Now the total four mistakes in formula (16) and (18) have been corrected in revised version. To avoid the similar mistakes, I have also checked the other derivations throughout the manuscript. Again thanks for your carefulness and tolerance.3. What is the function of parameter i σ in the event triggering condition (8). Which performance does it affect? How to choose this parameter according to the demands of performance? The analysis should be given.Reply: This suggestion is very reasonable. Actually, this parameter’s main function is to adjust the performance of event triggering mechanism. Each agent’s event frequency has a great relationship with the parameter i σ. The larger i σ, the eventtimes are less and the performance is better. To obtain the best performance, we σ=in revised version, i.e., we no longer define this parameter directly set 1iexplicitly in revised version.Reply to Referees #3We would like to thank the reviewer ’s great efforts in reading our manuscript and for your constructive comments and suggestions. Our responses to the comments and suggestions are listed as follows:1. The main advantage of this work should be further strengthened in Introduction. Reply: Sincerely thanks for your helpful suggestion. I have rewritten the contribution part in Introduction, and I’m sure the new version is much clearer than the old one.2. What are the novelty in the proposed scheme in this paper?Reply: There are four main novelties in this paper. First, we designed an integrated communication framework for digital multi-agent network, in which the event-triggered strategy and dynamic encode/decode scheme play an important role in communication process. Second, a distributed triggering condition that only depends on local state information of neighbor agents is developed and the corresponding consensus analysis is provided. Third, we gave the specific communication algorithm considering dynamic encode/decode scheme under event-triggered strategy, and we also proposed a self-adaptive quantization algorithm that builds a connection between quantization level and quantization factor. Last, we proposed an improved communication strategy named one-bit quantized scheme such that the global consensus can still be achieved based on only one bit information exchange between agents at each quantized transmission.3. In this Reviewer's opinion, in (6), \hat{e}_i(t) is infeasible since there is both $t$ and $t_k$. The authors should explain this point.Reply: Actually, it is feasible. Here we give the detailed explanation. Just like the statements before the Algorithm 1, we assume each agent i has a memory that canstore its own instant state ()i x t , state estimate ˆ()i xt , and its all neighbor stateestimates ˆ(),j i xt j N ∈. Furthermore, the initial states of all agents are given as ()1(0)(0),,(0)TN x x x =⋯, the all initial event time 0i t and all state estimates ˆ(0),i 1,,i x N = are initialized to 0. Then the Algorithm 1 can be carried out step by step. According to the Algorithm 1 and Remark 1, we can know that the work time of encoder/decoder is only the event time of relevant agents, once the event is triggered, then the corresponding measurement state estimate is updated and rewritten to thememory. As a result, the actuator i can directly obtain ()i x t and ˆ()ii i k x t from its memory to compute the measurement error ˆ()i et .4. The authors should check some typos.Reply: I have checked the manuscript again, and found there really exists some typos. Besides, I have also made some corrections based on my friends’ suggestions. Again thanks for your carefulness and tolerance.Finally, we would like to thank the referees again for the careful reading of our paper. In addition, we have revised the manuscript carefully and believe that the new version is much better than the old one. Hope the revised version is acceptable.Best wishes,Your name,May 28, 2015.。
英文回复信范例ResponseLetter
Dear Editors and Reviewers,Thank you for your letter and comments on our manuscript titled “Temporal variability in soil moisture after thinning in semi-arid Picea crassifolia plantations in northwestern China” (FORECO_2017_459). These comments helped us improve our manuscript, and provided important guidance for future research.We have addressed the editor’s and the reviewers’ comments to the best of our abilities, and revised text to meet the Forest Ecology and Management style requirements. We hope this meets your requirements for a publication.We marked the revised portions in red and highlighted them yellow in the manuscript. The main comments and our specific responses are detailed below:Editor:Please explain how the results in this paper are significantly different from those in Zhu, X., He, Z.B., Du, J., Yang, J.J., Chen, L.F., 2015. Effects of thinning on the soil moisture of the Picea crassifolia plantation in Qilian Mountains. Forest Research. 28, 55–60.)Response:We apologize for our earlier lack of clarity about the differences between our study and those in “Zhu, X., He, Z.B., Du, J., Yang, J.J., Chen, L.F., 2015. Effects of thinning on the soil moisture of the Picea crassifolia plantation in QilianMountains. Forest Research. 28, 55–60” (named “previous article” below). Specifically, we found three main differences in the temporal variability and hydrological responses of soil moisture between our study and the “previous article”.First, the scope of data analysis and use were different:The “previous article” just applied the one growing season data (from June 28th to October 25th 2013) from the natural forest and the plantations with no thinning and thinned in 20% intensity. In addition, the “previous article” also has not considered the effect of 40% thinning on the soil moisture of the Picea crassifolia plantation. However, in the present study, we applied four years data (from June 27th2012 to October 30th2015 in HD and NF; from January 1th 2014 to October 29th 2015 in MD and LD) from the natural forest and the plantations with no thinning, thinned in 20%, and thinned in 40% intensity to analysis the temporal variability and hydrological responses of soil moisture in semi-arid Picea crassifolia plantations in northwestern China.Second, the content of the research was different: The “previous article” only considered the spatial and temporal dynamic changes of soil moisture, but did not involve the inter-annual, and seasonal dynamic changes of the soil moisture. In the present study, however, not only did we considered the effects of thinning on the spatial and temporal dynamic changes,the inter-annual changes, and seasonal dynamic changes of the soil moisture; but we also considered the changes in soil hydrological response after thinning.Our goals were to understand the changes in soil hydrological response and soil moisture dynamics, and to determine whether thinning management can effectively improve the state of soil moisture in the subalpine Piceacrassifolia plantations in the Qilian Mountains.Third, the research purpose and the result were also different: The mainly purpose of the “previous article” was to preliminary explore the thinning on the plantation forest soil moisture, and they found that the intermediate thinning can significantly increase soil moisture content at the depth of 60 cm. However, they didn’t point out that which or what the thinning intensity or plantation density can be benefit to sustainability of planted forests in these water-limited regions. In this study, not only we did confirmed that the intermediate thinning can significantly increase soil moisture content at the deep soil layer, but we also found that high planting density was the main cause of severe soil moisture deficits in the long-term, and it could be mitigated by 20 -40% thinning (~3139 trees ha-1).In addition, by investigating the effect of thinning on the soil hydrological response, we found that soil hydrological response may be temporarily modified by thinning according to changes in canopy structure, precipitation properties, and antecedent soil moisture conditions. Soil moisture in natural forest rapidly infiltrated into deep soil, which greatly improved the efficiency of precipitation use. Thinning significantly increased the capacity for soil infiltration, and moderate thinning intensity may be conducive to deep soil-water recharge. Further, according to the global circulation prediction models and trend analysis results and weather patterns, deep VSWC may increase if precipitation patterns shift to produce larger but less frequent rainfall events during the growing season, and this change will benefit growth of the vegetation planted at higher density in this semi-arid region.Reviewer 1I found the topic very interesting. The scientific (experimental) set-up is valid and the data is presented clearly, and analyzed in detail. My detailed comments are all in the attached pdf-file.Response: Thank you for your encouraging remarks and valuable comments. We corrected our text according to your comments submitted in the attached pdf-file. Our responses to your comments are as follows:Comments in attached pdf-file1. Keywords: maybe re-consider “Rainfall”Response:We fully agree that it is necessary to re-consider “Rainfall” in the Keywords section. In addition, the statement of “Rainfall” was corrected as “Soil hydrological response” (L31).2. Ln. 37: Expand, i.e. why are these specific regions water-limited.Response: We apologize for our earlier lack of clarity. To increase clarity, we havere-written this sentence accordingly, and we have corrected “Grassland afforestation is critical in efforts to prevent wide-spread land degradation in arid and semi-arid regions of China (Chen et al., 2008a; Yang et al., 2014). However, sustainability of planted forests is severely limited by soil moisture conditions. Soil moisture is fundamental to sustainability in water-limited ecosystems (Newman et al., 2006; Yang et al., 2014).” as “Grassland afforestation is critical in efforts to prevent wide-spread land degradation in arid and semi-arid regions of China (Chen et al., 2008a; Yang et al., 2014), where rainfall is the main source of soil moisture, and where many vegetation restoration projects were implemented (Li, 2004). However, soil moisture is the most crucial factor to sustainability of planted forests in these water-limited ecosystems (Newman et al., 2006; Yang et al., 2014). (L35-40)”.3. Ln. 47: What is meant by “statistical moments of soil moisture, such as mean and variance”?Response: It is meant that changes to canopy structure due to large-scale clearings or intermediate disturbance events may lead to changes in the mean and the variance of the soil moisture. We amended our text to clarify, and now it reads: “Changes to forest canopy structure due to large-scale harvesting may lead to changes in soil properties, residual tree growth, and the mean and the variance of the soil moisture (Chen et al., 1993; Olchev et al., 2009; He et al., 2013; Kaarakka et al., 2014).” (L48-51).4. Ln. 60: add “ecosystems” (instead of cosystem)Response:The statement of “cosystem” was corrected as “ecosystems” (L62).5. Ln. 68: change “determining” to “affecting”Response:The statement of “determining” was corrected as “affecting” (L71).6. Ln. 71: Expand this sentence a bit. Growing season – where? At the studied region/area?Response: To increase clarity, we have re-written this sentence accordingly (L71-75). And our studied region/area is also experiencing this precipitation patterns, with larger but less frequent rainfall events during the growing season, and more frequent extreme hydrological events.7. Ln. 74–80: Heisler-White, He et al. and Sun et al. →showed where, in what type of ecosystem, how does it relate to the studied one, i.e. elaborate more on how these studies relate to the current one.Response:That was an excellent suggestion, and we have made revisions according to your comments (L78-80, L83, L85-86).The study of Heisler-White et al. (2008)provides a background knowledge of the supply of the precipitation on soil profile. The studies of He et al. (2012) and Sun et al. (2015)investigated the soil moisture dynamics of typical ecosystems (forestland, shrubland, grassland, and meadows) in response to precipitation, which can provide a reference for our research.提供背景知识，了解降水对土壤的补给情况；He et al. and Sun et al.的研究研究了祁连山天然植被（林地、草地和灌丛）的土壤水分情况，是本文章研究的基础。
Response letter
Dear Editors and Reviewers,开始：On behalf of all the contributing authors, I would like to express our sincere appreciations of your letter and reviewers’ constructive comments concerning our article entitled “Solving Data Imbalance for Multy-Class Activity Recognition”. These comments a re all valuable and helpful for improving our article. According to the editor and reviewers’ comments, we have made extensive modifications to our manuscript. In this revised version, changes to our manuscript are all highlighted within the document by using red colored text. Point-by-point responses to the niceeditors and reviewers are listed below this letter.（最开始向审稿人表示谢意并表明改稿的方式：修改的部分用红色标出，对于每条建议的应对如下）1.Response to comment:（这里表述一下第一个建议：需要增添作者信息）Response: （这里表述一下作者的信息：具体的添加内容、添加方式、添加位置等的详细描述）老师，我不太清楚你的文章的作者信息加在哪里，以什么样的方式加的，这个需要您自己补充一下~~2.Response to comment:（这里表述一下第二个建议：语法错误需改正）Response: （这里表述一下如何进行的改正）如：Thanks for your suggestion. We feel sorry for our poor writings, however, we do invite a friend of us who is a native English speaker from USA to help polish our article. We tried our best to improve the manuscript and made some changes in the manuscript. These changes will not influence the content and framework of the paper. And here we did not list the changes butmarked in red in revised paper（可以将修改版语法修改的部分用红色标注）. We appreciatefor editors and r eviewers’ warm work earnestly, and hope that the correction will meet with approval.结束：According to the reviewer’s comments, we have revised the manuscript extensively. Ifthere are any other modifications we could make, we would like very much to modify them and we really appreciate your help. We hope that our manuscript could be considered for publication in your journal. Thank you very much for your help again.。
ResponseLetter写法（三）：分享一些常见语句
ResponseLetter写法（三）：分享一些常见语句撰文：ZSH 编辑：ZSH前期相关内容链接：1. 从Nature Commun.发表文章学习文章审稿意见回复2. 精品推荐：Response Letter的格式以及相关写法前言：前期的分享中主要强调了一些回答问题的格式与基本原则，今天再具体分享一些可能会用到的回复意见的回答语句，希望对大家有所帮助，也欢迎大家指正。
1. 审稿人对语言不满意怎么办？The paper is poorly written, the use of English need to be improved all over the manuscript.个人意见：回复简单一点没有关系，重点是让审稿人看到你确实对论文的语言做出了相应的修改，下面是一些实例：A: We tried our best to improve the manuscript and made some changes in the manuscript. These changes will not influence the content and framework of the paper. And here we did not list the changes but marked in red in revised paper. We appreciate for Editors/Reviewers’ warm work earnestly, and hope that the correction will meet with approval.B：Thanks for your suggestion. We feel sorry for our poor writings, however, we do invite a friend of us who is a native English speaker from USA help polish our article. And we hope the revised manuscript could be acceptable for you.C. Thanks for your suggestion. We have tried our best to polish the language in the revised manuscript.2. 单词拼写错了怎么办？On page X, line Y, 'XXX' should be'YYY'.A：We sincerely thank the reviewer for careful reading. As suggested by the reviewer, we have corrected the “___” into “___”.B. We feel sorry for our carelessness. In our resubmitted manuscript, the typo is revised. Thanks for your correction.C. We have carefully checked the manuscript and corrected the errors accordingly.3. 审稿人让加文献怎么办？Ref. 14, e.g., is certainly not the only paper on XXX but there is tons of papers on this very subject! Please check the literature!A：We sincerely appreciate the valuable comments. We have checked the literatures carefully and added more references on ___ and___ into the INTRODUCTION part in the revised manuscript.On XXX，Chen et al., J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2011, 2, 34-56; Li et al., Science. 2011, 2, 34-56;On YYY, Chen et al., J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2011, 2, 34-56; Li et al., Science. 2011, 2, 34-56;B. As suggested by the reviewer, we have added more references to support this idea (Chen et al., J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2011, 2, 34-56; Li et al., Science. 2011, 2, 34-56). According to Chen et al., ___ is ...4. 审稿人让补实验怎么办？It would be nice to see what happens to the catalytic system after the first run.A. 如果能补：We have investigated the recyclable property for ___ by using ___ that have the best activity. Figure 1 reveals only slight decrease in the ___ after the three-run test, indicating very good stability of ___ in photocatalytic reactions.The manuscript has been revised accordingly to clarify the above concerns.B. 如果补的实验没有得到预期的结果（一般应该找文献来支撑相应结果）：As suggested by the referee, we have tried our best to verify XXX by____. However, no ___ signal has been detected in our synthesis system. Other researchers also found that it is very difficult to obtain a well-resolved hyperfine structure for ___. As suggested in the literatures, ____; Some researchers even think that it is impossible to obtain a well-resolved hyperfine structure by ___.C. 如果实验条件或者客观条件不允许(上次已更新)：We agree that more study would be useful to understand details of interaction and enhancement. At this point we do not have the necessary tool-set to study the ___. We hope, in the future, to employ ___ techniques to determine ___. This study is beyond the scope of this report which focuses on answering critical questions regarding the ___. We note also that since submission of our manuscript there has been apublication by Alex Bell and Martin Head-Gordon at Berkeley showing that Fe on Au2O3 has enhanced OER activity with DFT calculations (Ref.79). We have added this citation and reference to the manuscript.5. 一些体现对审稿人表示尊敬的套话总结（部分内容来源于网络）：A. general response：示例1：We sincerely thank the editor and all reviewers for their valuable feedback that we have used to improvethe quality of our manuscript. The reviewer comments are laid out below in italicized font and specific concernshave been numbered. Our response is given in normal font and changes/additionsto the manuscript are given in blue text.类似的：On behalf of all the contributing authors, I would like to express our sincere appreciations of your letter and reviewers’ constructive comments concerning our article ent itled “XXX文章” (Manuscript No.:XXXX). These comments are all valuable and helpful for improving our article. According to the associate editor and reviewers’ comments, we have made extensive modifications to our manuscript and supplemented extra data to make our results convincing. In this revised version, changes to ourmanuscript were all highlighted within the document by using red colored text. Point-by-point responses to the nice associate editor and two nice reviewers are listed below this letter.B. We feel great thanks for your professional review work on our article. As you are concerned, there are several problems that need to be addressed. According to your nice suggestions, we have made extensive corrections to our previous draft, the detailed corrections are listed below.C.According to the reviewer’s comments, we have revised the manuscript extensively. If there are any other modificationswe could make, we would like very much to modify them and we really appreciate your help. We hope that our manuscript could be considered for publication in your journal. Thank you very much for your help.D. Thank you again for your positive comments and valuable suggestions toimprove the quality of our manuscript.E. We were really sorry for our careless mistakes. Thank you for your reminding.F. If there are any other modifications we could make, we would like very much to modify them and we really appreciate your help. Thank you very much for your help.下期内容预告：Cover Letter的简单写法分享鸟语虫声总是传心之诀，花英草色无非见道之文！随手点点下方广告，无需下载即可帮研之成理创收哦。
ResponseLetter的格式以及相关写法
ResponseLetter的格式以及相关写法首先，还是重申下Response Letter回复的几个基本原则：回复审稿人意见时，要把握的几个基本原则是：1)态度和善，措辞诚恳，不要激怒审稿人；2) 回答问题时，层次要分明，抓住审稿人问题的重点，直面审稿人的问题，不要妄想着绕圈圈搪塞过去；3) 回答问题不是光嘴上说说就好，要有理有据，需要补充实验的，要用实验结果来说明，需要引用文献的，找到合适的文献进行阐述；4) 尽可能让审稿人轻松起来，所以格式很关键，不要偷懒，文章中哪些地方进行了修改，在Response letter里面要指明，并最好列出来；如果对正文或者SI里面的图表进行了修改，在response letter里面也要同步贴上去，不要将审稿人的时间浪费在帮你找文件当中；应该适当地使用粗体斜体或者下划线，帮助审稿人抓住你回答问题的重点；5) 审稿人的意见并不总是对的，所以不要别人说啥就是啥，科学原则不能违背。
如果审稿人的意见有误，应该委婉地利用充实的证据来坚持自己的观点，请不要使用过激的语言。
重点推荐下面这种格式：1) General response: 在逐条回复每个审稿人的意见之前，先总体回复一下，感谢编辑和审稿人对文章提出的宝贵意见，同时对response letter的格式进行简单说明，具体如下：General response:We sincerely thank the editor and all reviewers for their valuable feedback that we have used to improvethe quality of our manuscript. The reviewer comments are laid out below in italicized font and specific concernshave been numbered. Our response is given in normal font and changes/additionsto the manuscript are given in blue text.请注意：这里在格式上非常明确的一点就是：将审稿人的意见一条条编号，并用斜体标记出来，这样一目了然，审稿人可以很轻松地区分问题和回复意见；此外，对于文章中做出的标记，用不同颜色的字体标记出来，这样审稿人不需要再回到论文中去找，非常方便。
response_letter写法
We are truly grateful to the reviewers’ suggestions on English. Based on these comments, we have made careful modifications on the manuscript.Dear Editor:We are truly grateful to yours and other reviewers’ critical comments and thoughtful suggestions. Based on these comments and suggestions, we have made careful modifications on the original manuscript. All changes made to the text are in red color. In addition, we have consulted native English speakers for paper revision before the submission this tim e. We hope the new manuscript will meet your magazine’s standard. Below you will find our point-by-point responses to the reviewers’ comments/ questions: 1234...Yours sincerely******Dear Prof.****:Thank you very much for your kindly comments on our manuscript (No******). Based on your and reviewer’s suggestions, we carefully revised the manuscript.We are now sending the revised article for your re-consideration to publish in Journal of Plant Physiology. Please see our point to point responses to all your comments below, and the corresponding revisions in the body of manuscript, both marked in blue. We look forward to hearing form you soon for a favorable 8 decision.Thank you again for your time and consideration.Sincerely,****1. *****2.*****3.*****Below, the original comments are in black, and our responses are in blue.****Following typographical and grammatical errors in original manuscript have been removedand corrected:(1) Line 20 page 1 in the original manuscript: the drag…..Revised in the revised manuscript: The drag……RESPONSES TO REVIEWERS’ COMMENTSDear Dr:We are truly grateful to yours and other reviewers’ critical comments and thoughtful suggestions. Based on these comments and suggestions, we have made careful modifications on the original manuscript. All changes made to the text are in red color. In addition, we have consulted native English speakers for paper revision before the submission this time. We hope the new manuscript will meet your magazine’s standard. Below you will find our point-by-point responses to the reviewers’ comments/ questions: Comments from the Editor-in-Chief:回复后1月，要求小休，并认为英文水平已经大大提高，要求明确我下一步想如何研究，因此老外由帮我写了回复信，如下是第二封信的开场白：Dear Dr. Chernick:We must thank you and all other reviewers for the critical feedback. We feel lucky that our manuscript went to these reviewers as the valuable comments from them not only helped us with the improvement of our manuscript, but suggested some neat ideas for future studies. Please do forward our heartfelt thanks to these experts.Based on the comments we received, careful modifications have been made to the R1 manuscript. All changes were marked in red text. In addition, we also have a native English speakers double-checked the English for the revised R2 version. We hope the new manuscript will meet your magazine’s standard. Below you will find our point-by-point responses to the reviewers’ comments/ questions:Dear Editor:Thank you very much for your supervision of the reviewing process of my manuscript (Ref. No. of XXXXXXX). We also highly appreciate the reviewer’s carefulness, conscientious, and the broad knowledge on the relevant research fields, since they have given me a number of beneficial suggestions. According to the reviewer’s instructions, we have made the following revisions on this manuscript:1. After examining the reviewer’s comments carefully, we must admitthat we havenot expressed our meaning correctly in the previous manuscript. Sorry for this confusion. In the revised version, t he “rougher” has been corrected as “weaker andbroader”. (See Line 7 from top, 3.1 Phase identification).2. As suggested by the reviewer, Fig. 3a has been referred into the revised manuscriptto reveal flattening of the milled powders. (See Line 4 from top, 3.2 Microstructure)3. In the review comments, the reviewer has pointed out that “The particle size of thepowders in Fig. 3b&c appear to be comparable?” We have again examined Fig. 3band 3c carefully. Compared with the particle size of powders in Fig. 3b, the particlesize of particles in Fig. 3c showed a very slight increase. (See Line 17 from top, 3.2Microstructure)4. As suggested by the reviewer, we have outlined the operating mechanism in the revised manuscript for the sake of better understanding and clarity. (See Lines 7-11 from top, 4.Conclusions)5. In the review comment, we are very appreciated to know that a marked hardcopy ofthe manuscript has been sent by post concerning additional corrections of Englishlanguage. We have waited the hardcopy for more than 2 months since May 9, 2008.However, we have not yet received the hardcopy till now, due to some unknownreasons. With the permission of XXXXXXX (Email: XXXXXXX), we have invited another native English speaker in our university, who is a visiting professor from USA engaged in the research field of Materials Science and Engineering, to go through the whole manuscript. The English language in the current manuscript has been polished and improved.We hope that these revisions are satisfactory and that the revised version will beacceptable for publication in XXXXXXX.Thank you very much for your work concerning my paper.Wish you all the best!Sincerely yours,XXXXXXX一篇稿子从酝酿到成型历经艰辛，投出去之后又是漫长的等待，好容易收到编辑的回信，得到的往往又是审稿人不留情面的一顿狂批。
论文返修（responseletter）一些很有用的套话III
论文返修（responseletter）一些很有用的套话III总结了一部分万能的套话，以体现我们对杂志社编辑和审稿人的尊重。
1、Thank you foryour email dated xxxxxx[[1 June 2016]] enclosing the reviewers’ comments. We have carefully reviewed the comments and have revised the manuscript accordingly.Our responses are given in a point-by-pointmanner below. Changes to the manuscript are shown in underline/red/bold.2、I very much appreciate the time and effort you’ve put into your comments. Your advice aboutthe formatting, structure and referencing style of my paper is most helpful.3、Further to ourcorrespondence a couple of weeks ago, I’m attaching the revised version of my articleentitled “XXXX”I have now completed all of the changes you requested: （改格式）The numerical style of in-text referencinghas been changed to author-date referencing in APA style.The list of references has been arrangedalphabetically by the last names of authors instead of numerically, and otherchanges to conform to APA style have been made to the references.The article has been restructured toinclude separate Limitations and Conclusions sections.All headings and subheadings have beenadjusted to conform to the requirements indicated in the Journal of ChangingWeather author guidelines, including the removal of numbers.All nonstandard abbreviations and acronymsused in the paper have been defined on first use and used consistentlythereafter.Abbreviations used in each table have beendefined in a note at the bottom of the table.The vertical rules/lines have been removedfrom all three tables.The tables are now attached as a separatefile instead of embedded in the paper.4、I hope that the changes I’ve made resolve all your concerns about the article. I’m more thanhappy to make an y further changes that will improve the paper and/or facilitatesuccessful publication.5、Thank you once again for your time and interest. I look forward to hearing from you.6、We thank reviewers fortheir constructive criticism, and time spent to analyze this manuscript, Theresponses, and explanations related to their comments are listed below:7、We agree with the reviewer’s comment concerningthis issue. However, …….8、As a response to the reviewer’s comment we ……..9、We thank the reviewer for the kind comments.10、we thank the reviewer for pointing this out. We havecorrected it to “XXXXX”11、We agree with the reviewer. In respond to thiscomment and to a comment raised by the other reviewer, we have revised the textas follows.12、Based on these comments and suggestions, we have made careful modifications to the original manuscript,and carefully proof-read the manuscript to minimize typographical andgrammatical errors. We believe that the manuscript has been greatly improved and hope it has reached you r magazine’s standard.13、Once again, weacknowledge your comments very much, which are valuable in improving thequality of our manuscript.14、We are verygrateful to your comments on the manuscript.15、We thank youvery much for your comments for pointing out this omission. Now, in the revisedmanuscript, we have corrected……16、We are verygrateful to your comments and thoughtful suggestions. In the revisedmanuscript, we have modified……17、In conclusion, according to the comments, we give a detailedrevision on the original manuscript. At the same time, we have thoroughlyrevised the manuscript in order to express the idea more clearly. The majorrevision are listed in the following.We believe the manuscript has beengreatly improved. Once again, thank you for the kind advice.18、thanks for your suggestions. We feel sorry for our poor writings, however, we do invite a friend of us who is a native English speaker from USA help polish our article. Due to our friend’s help, the article was edited extensively. And we hope the revised manuscript could be acceptable for you.好啦今天就策到这里吧，希望对大家有帮助。
coverletter和responseletter写法(投稿)
Dear Editor，We are truly grateful to yours and other reviewers’ critical comments and thoughtful suggestions on our manuscript(********). Based on these comments and suggestions, we have made careful modifications on the original manuscript. All changes made to the text are in red color. We hope the new manuscript will meet your magazine’s standard.Below you will find our point-by-point responses to the reviewers’ comments/ questions.We hope that these revisions are satisfactory and that the revised version will be acceptable for publication in *********.Thank you very much for your work concerning our paper.Wish you all the best!Sincerely yours,************************Response letter写法We are truly grateful to the reviewers’ suggestions on English. Based on these comments, we have made careful modifications on the manuscript.Dear Editor:We are truly grateful to yours and other revie wers’ critical comments and thoughtful suggestions. Based on these comments and suggestions, we have made careful modifications on the original manuscript. All changes made to the text are in red color. In addition, we have consulted native English speakers for paper revision before the submission this time. We hope the new manuscript will meet your magazine’s standard. Below you will find our point-by-point responses to the reviewers’ comments/ questions: 1234...Yours sincerely******Dear Prof.****:Thank you very much for your kindly comments on our manuscript (No******). Based on your and reviewer’s suggestions, we carefully revised the manuscript.We are now sending the revised article for your re-consideration to publish in Journal of Plant Physiology. Please see our point to point responses to all your comments below, and the corresponding revisions in the body of manuscript, both marked in blue. We look forward to hearing form you soon for a favorable 8 decision.Thank you again for your time and consideration.Sincerely,****1. *****2.*****3.*****Below, the original comments are in black, and our responses are in blue.****Following typographical and grammatical errors in original manuscript have been removed and corrected:(1) Lin e 20 page 1 in the original manuscript: the drag…..Revised in the revised manuscript: The drag……RESPONSES TO REVIEWERS’ COMMENTSDear Dr:We are truly grateful to yours and other reviewers’ critical comments and thoughtful suggestions. Based on these comments and suggestions, we have made careful modifications on the original manuscript. All changes made to the text are in red color. In addition, we have consulted native English speakers for paper revision before the submission this time. We hope the new manuscript will meet your magazine’s standard. Below you will find our point-by-point responses to the reviewers’ comments/ questions: Comments from the Editor-in-Chief:回复后1月，要求小休，并认为英文水平已经大大提高，要求明确我下一步想如何研究，因此老外由帮我写了回复信，如下是第二封信的开场白：Dear Dr. Chernick:We must thank you and all other reviewers for the critical feedback. We feel lucky that our manuscript went to these reviewers as the valuable comments from them not only helped us with the improvement of our manuscript, but suggested some neat ideas for future studies. Please do forward our heartfelt thanks to these experts.Based on the comments we received, careful modifications have been made to the R1 manuscript. All changes were marked in red text. In addition, we also have a native English speakers double-checked the English for the revised R2 version. We hope the new manuscript will meet your magazine’s standard. Below you will find our point-by-point responses to the reviewers’ comments/ questions:Dear Editor:Thank you very much for your supervision of the reviewing process of my manuscript (Ref. No. of XXXXXXX). We also highly appreciate the reviewer’s carefulness, conscientious, and the broad knowledge on the relevant research fields, since they have given me a number of beneficial suggestions. According to the reviewer’s instructions, we have made the following revisions on this manuscript:1. After examining the reviewer’s comments carefully, we must admit that we havenot expressed our meaning correctly in the previous manuscript. Sorry for this confusion. In the revised version, t he “rougher” has been corrected as “weaker andbroader”. (See Line 7 from top, 3.1 Phase identification).2. As suggested by the reviewer, Fig. 3a has been referred into the revised manuscriptto reveal flattening of the milled powders. (See Line 4 from top, 3.2 Microstructure)3. In the review comments, the reviewer has pointed out that “The particle size of thepowders in Fig. 3b&c appear to be comparable?” We have again examined Fig. 3band 3c carefully. Compared with the particle size of powders in Fig. 3b, the particlesize of particles in Fig. 3c showed a very slight increase. (See Line 17 from top, 3.2Microstructure)4. As suggested by the reviewer, we have outlined the operating mechanism in the revised manuscript for the sake of better understanding and clarity. (See Lines 7-11 from top, 4.Conclusions)5. In the review comment, we are very appreciated to know that a marked hardcopy ofthe manuscript has been sent by post concerning additional corrections of Englishlanguage. We have waited the hardcopy for more than 2 months since May 9, 2008.However, we have not yet received the hardcopy till now, due to some unknownreasons. With the permission of XXXXXXX (Email: XXXXXXX), we have invited another native English speaker in our university, who is a visiting professor from USA engaged in the research field of Materials Science and Engineering, to go through the whole manuscript. The English language in the current manuscript has been polished and improved.We hope that these revisions are satisfactory and that the revised version will beacceptable for publication in XXXXXXX.Thank you very much for your work concerning my paper. Wish you all the best!Sincerely yours,XXXXXXX。
英文回复信范例 Response Letter知识交流
英文回复信范例R e s p o n s e L e t t e rDear Editors and Reviewers,Thank you for your letter and comments on our manuscript titled “Temporal variability in soil moisture after thinning in semi-arid Picea crassifolia plantations in northwestern China” (FORECO_2017_459). These comments helped us improve our manuscript, and provided important guidance for future research.We have addressed the editor’s and the reviewers’ comments to the best of our abilities, and revised text to meet the Forest Ecology and Management style requirements. We hope this meets your requirements for a publication.We marked the revised portions in red and highlighted them yellow in the manuscript. The main comments and our specific responses are detailed below:Editor:Please explain how the results in this paper are significantly different from those in Zhu, X., He, Z.B., Du, J., Yang, J.J., Chen, L.F., 2015. Effects of thinning on the soil moisture of the Picea crassifolia plantation in Qilian Mountains. Forest Research. 28, 55–60.)Response:We apologize for our earlier lack of clarity about the differences between our study and those in “Zhu, X., He, Z.B., Du, J., Yang, J.J., Chen, L.F., 2015. Effects of thinning on the soil moisture of the Picea crassifolia plantation in QilianMountains. Forest Research. 28, 55–60” (named “previous article” below). Specifically, we found three main differences in the temporal variability and hydrological responses of soil moisture between our study and the “previous article”.First, the scope of data analysis and use were different: T he “previous article”just applied the one growing season data (from June 28th to October 25th 2013) from the natural forest and the plantations with no thinning and thinned in 20% intensity. In addition, t he “previous article” also has not considered the effect of 40% thinning on the soil moisture of the Picea crassifolia plantation. However, in the present study, we applied four years data (from June 27th 2012 to October 30th 2015 in HD and NF; from January 1th 2014 to October 29th 2015 in MD and LD) from the natural forest and the plantations with no thinning, thinned in 20%, and thinned in 40% intensity to analysis the temporal variability and hydrological responses of soil moisture in semi-arid Picea crassifolia plantations in northwestern China.Second, the content of the research was different: The “previous article” only considered the spatial and temporal dynamic changes of soil moisture, but did not involve the inter-annual, and seasonal dynamic changes of the soil moisture. In the present study, however, not only did we considered the effects of thinning on the spatial and temporal dynamic changes, the inter-annual changes, and seasonal dynamic changes of the soil moisture; but we also considered the changes in soil hydrological response after thinning. Our goals were to understand the changes in soil hydrological response and soil moisture dynamics, and to determine whether thinningmanagement can effectively improve the state of soil moisture in the subalpine Picea crassifolia plantations in the Qilian Mountains.Third, the research purpose and the result were also different: The mainly purpose of the “previous article” was to preliminary explore the thinning on the plantation forest soil moisture, and they found that the intermediate thinning can significantly increase soil moisture content at the depth of 60 cm. However, they didn’t point out that which or what the thinning intensity or plantation density can be benefit to sustainability of planted forests in these water-limited regions. In this study, not only we did confirmed that the intermediate thinning can significantly increase soil moisture content at the deep soil layer, but we also found that high planting density was the main cause of severe soil moisture deficits in the long-term, and it could be mitigated by 20 - 40% thinning (~3139 trees ha-1). In addition, by investigating the effect of thinning on the soil hydrological response, we found that soil hydrological response may be temporarily modified by thinning according to changes in canopy structure, precipitation properties, and antecedent soil moisture conditions. Soil moisture in natural forest rapidly infiltrated into deep soil, which greatly improved the efficiency of precipitation use. Thinning significantly increased the capacity for soil infiltration, and moderate thinning intensity may be conducive to deep soil-water recharge. Further, according to the global circulation prediction models and trend analysis results and weather patterns, deep VSWC may increase if precipitation patterns shift to produce larger but less frequent rainfall events duringthe growing season, and this change will benefit growth of the vegetation planted at higher density in this semi-arid region.Reviewer 1I found the topic very interesting. The scientific (experimental) set-up is valid and the data is presented clearly, and analyzed in detail. My detailed comments are all in the attached pdf-file.Response: Thank you for your encouraging remarks and valuable comments. We corrected our text according to your comments submitted in the attached pdf-file. Our responses to your comments are as follows:Comments in attached pdf-file1. Keywords: maybe re-consider “Rainfall”Response: We fully agree that it is necessary to re-consider “Rainfall” in the Keywords section. In addition, the statement of “Rainfall” was corrected as “Soil hydrological response” (L31).2. Ln. 37: Expand, i.e. why are these specific regions water-limited.Response: We apologize for our earlier lack of clarity. To increase clarity, we have re-written this sentence accordingly, and we have corrected “Grassland afforestation is critical in efforts to prevent wide-spread land degradation in arid and semi-arid regions of China (Chen et al., 2008a; Yang et al., 2014). However, sustainability of planted forests is severely limited by soil moisture conditions. Soil moisture is fundamental to sustainability in water-limited ecosystems (Newman et al., 2006; Yang et al., 2014).” as “Grassland afforestation is critical in efforts to prevent wide-spread land degradation in arid and semi-arid regions of China (Chen et al., 2008a; Yang et al., 2014), where rainfall is the main source of soil moisture, and where many vegetation restoration projects were implemented (Li, 2004). However, soil moisture is the most crucial factor to sustainability of planted forests in these water-limited ecosystems (Newman et al., 2006; Yang et al., 2014). (L35-40)”.3. Ln. 47: What is meant by “statistical moments of soil moisture, such as mean and variance”?Response: It is meant that changes to canopy structure due to large-scale clearings or intermediate disturbance events may lead to changes in the mean and the variance of the soil moisture. We amended our text to clarify, and now it reads: “Changes to forest canopy structure due to large-scale harvesting may lead to changes in soil properties, residual tree growth, and the mean and the variance of the soil moisture(Chen et al., 1993; Olchev et al., 2009; He et al., 2013; Kaarakka et al., 2014).” (L48-51).4. Ln. 60: add “ecosystems” (instead of cosystem)Response: The statement of “cosystem” was corrected as “ecosystems” (L62).5. Ln. 68: change “determining” to “affecting”Response: The statement of “determining” was corrected as “affecting” (L71).6. Ln. 71: Expand this sentence a bit. Growing season – where? At the studied region/area?Response: To increase clarity, we have re-written this sentence accordingly (L71-75). And our studied region/area is also experiencing this precipitation patterns, with larger but less frequent rainfall events during the growing season, and more frequent extreme hydrological events.7. Ln. 74–80: Heisler-White, He et al. and Sun et al. → showed where, in what type of ecosystem, how does it relate to the studied one, i.e. elaborate more on how these studies relate to the current one.Response: That was an excellent suggestion, and we have made revisions according to your comments (L78-80, L83, L85-86). The study of Heisler-White et al. (2008) provides a background knowledge of the supply of the precipitation on soil profile. The studies of He et al. (2012) and Sun et al. (2015) investigated the soil moisture dynamics of typical ecosystems (forestland, shrubland, grassland, and meadows) in response to precipitation, which can provide a reference for our research.提供背景知识，了解降水对土壤的补给情况；He et al. and Sun et al.的研究研究了祁连山天然植被（林地、草地和灌丛）的土壤水分情况，是本文章研究的基础。
response letter写法
写论文如导大片, 投论文如谈恋爱精选已有5767 次阅读 2011-4-24 08:26 |个人分类:论文写作|系统分类:论文交流|关键词:manuscript submission, in love标题中的前半部分，我已经在另外一个博文中谈过（参见：治大国如烹小鲜，写论文如导大片），本文就谈后本半部分。
谈恋爱和论文投稿（本文主要谈英文论文投稿）看起来是风马牛不相及的两个事情，但是两者都需要两情相悦，互相欣赏，两者还是许多相通之处的，下面就结合恋爱这件事，谈谈自己对论文投稿的“一忌两要”，但愿这个“一忌两要”，您看了之后等真正成为您论文投稿的“一剂良药”。
1.“忌早恋”：对于谈恋爱而言，早恋的危害，在知名作家肖复兴先生写的小说《早恋》已有深刻描述。
未成年人过早谈恋爱可能会危害人的一生，同样的道理，一篇文章，其实很多情况下就相当于一个故事，故事还没有讲完，还不完整，还没有发育成熟，就由于种种原因（比如急着毕业、职称晋升等）仓促投出去，这样做的害处是很明显的，和早恋类似，有点自己作践自己，因为这样的稿件，投出去，往往都过不了编辑部内审这一关，现在象样点的SCI期刊都是先将投稿初步筛选一下，像这样明显不完整、有硬伤的稿件不经外审就直接据稿了。
当然这样的稿件也许最终还是会在影响因子(impact factor, IF)很低的期刊上发表，这就像有些未成年少女早恋，少不更事失了身，最后草草把自己嫁给了一个自己不满意的男人。
2. “要门当户对”：此言一出，估计会惹板砖无数，认为我现在都什么年代了，还在提封建社会那一套，我所说的“门当户对”是指大致的门当户对，不但包括家庭条件，更包括自身条件。
古今中外，甚至上朔至古埃及时代，一直以来都有各种版本的有关灰姑娘的故事（当然这也包括男版灰姑娘的故事，英语都是Cinderella）,就是现在这个社会还有N多的靓女想嫁入豪门（当然也有不少男人也想入赘豪门）。
对于科研人员而言，著名刊物Science、Nature等牛刊无疑就是“豪门”，多少人想将自己的稿件能嫁入这样的豪门。
投稿必备：如何写好responseletter？（内附写作模板）
投稿必备：如何写好responseletter？（内附写作模板）Response letter的主要目的是回复你采纳了审稿人哪些有助于提高论文质量的意见，并表明做出了哪些修改。
所以这意味着不必同意审稿人所有建议的更改，但是你需要知道如何以适当的方式说明为什么拒绝修改。
在本文中，小编将给大家分享如何有效地写好一封Response letter。
公众号回复“response letter”即可获得一些有用的表达和Response letter模板第一个部分：General Response除了开头要提到的基本信息（如编辑姓名，期刊名字，论文标题，Manuscript ID）之外，这个部分还需要总的表达一下对编辑和审稿人的感谢，表示已经解决了审稿人提出来的所有问题与建议，并表明下文回复审稿人意见的格式（加粗/斜体/字体颜色）。
在感谢部分要注意的是，尽量不要说例如“Thank you for your comments, which have helped us to substantially/greatly improve the manuscript.” 的话，评论稿件质量是审稿人的工作，不要冒昧地夸赞自己做出的修改。
•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 thateach one of the reviewer comments has been addressed carefully and the paper is revised accordingly.•In what follows the referees’ comment s 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 reviewer s’comments and concerns. [回复的部分用蓝色字体]如果根据审稿人的意见，你有对稿件进行大的修改，不妨用一个简洁的段落总结一下所做的主要更改以及它们是否会影响你对研究结果的原始解释。
SCI修改稿Responses letter范文模板
SCI修改稿Responses letter范文模板（可按照模式套用，必中）1、修改稿回答审稿人的意见List of ResponsesDear Editors and Reviewers:Thank you for your letter and for the reviewers’comments concerning our manuscript entitled “Paper Title”(ID: 文章稿号). Those comments are all valuable and very helpful for revising and improving our paper, as well as the important guiding significance to our researches. We have studied comments carefully and have made correction which we hope meet with approval. Revised portion are marked in red in the paper. The main corrections in the paper and the responds to the reviewer’s comments are as flowing:Responds to the reviewer’s comments:Reviewer #1:1. Response to comment: (……简要列出意见……)Response: ××××××2. Response to comment: (……简要列出意见……)Response: ××××××。
商务写作（respondletters）回复函
商务写作（respondletters）回复函Response LetterEach request letter means a chance for you to expand your business. Therefore, you should give prompt, clear and polite replies to such inquiries.1. Responding to requests for detailed information about a product1) The basic elements in such lettersA) a polite, thankful beginning, mentioning the receipt of the letter;B) a few words emphasizing the advantages of your product;C) a sincere and courteous conclusion to induce an action out of the potential customer; andD) necessary materials concerned if possible.2) Often-used structure of such lettersA) The letter may begin with one of the following sentences:a) Thank you very much for your inquiry.b) We are delighted to receive your letter of 12 May 2004.c) Thank you for your request for samples and prices quotations(报价单) on our products.B) The middle section of the response letter may elaborate on or explain in detail the positive points of your product. (You may recommend a specific model for the potential customer.)C) In the concluding paragraph, you need to express your sincere expectation of further contact or even an order courteously. This is the last chance to build goodwill and induce the reader to make a purchase.Examples:a) We are convinced that you won’t miss the opportunity of joining us at the seminar(研讨会), and look forward to meeting you there.b) I am looking forward to the pleasure of receiving your first order.c) May I hear from you again very soon?d) If you have any other questions, don’t hesitate to contact us. We are at your service all the ti me.3) Sample letters2. Responding to requests for detailed information about a service1) Basic rules: You may follow the same rules as you do when responding to a request about a product.)2) Sample letters3. Responding to requests for the availability of a product or service1) Basic rulesA) If your reply is yes, you should tell the reader the good news quickly and clearly;B) When your answer is not satisfying, you need to convey this message skillfully, in order not to hurt the reader. You should not say “No” at the very beginning. Rather, you’d better explain why you are not able to provide the product or the service. 2) Sample lettersSample Response LettersSample Letter 1: Responding to requests for information about a product21 May 2004Ms. Helen GarnerPurchasing ManagerSpark Co., Ltd.124 La Trobe StreetMelbourne, Victoria 3000AustraliaDear Ms. Garner,We are delighted to receive your letter dated 12 May 2004.You wrote to the right washing machine manufacturer. The Company has taken a five-year-long quality guarantee, longer than that of most other manufacturers. Enclosed here is the catalogue of the latest series of micro-computer automatic washing-machines.Considering yours is a company aiming at small households, we strongly recommend the model XOB38-99. Based on our latest market survey, this model is the most popular one among households of 3-5 people in most regions at home and abroad.We are looking forward to your first order.Yours sincerely,Ni YafengSales ManagerSample Letter 2: Responding to requests for information about a product23 July 2004Mr. Ma Baotong, ExecutiveDalian zhongshan Trade Firm38 Ganzijing Rd. Ganzijing DistrictDalian, Laioning 116031ChinaDear Mr. Ma,It’s so nice to receive your letter dated 1 July 2004. Thank you for your interest in our product.Our products include fa?ade boards（墙⾯板）of fiber cement with natural surface, polyurethane-coated （涂有聚氨酯）fiber cement board （纤维⽔泥板）and acrylate-coated （涂有丙烯酸）fiber cement boards.With a long history of and high reliability, this company has established a good reputation at home and abroad. Our products are always very popular in Europe and Japan. With your help, we are hoping to penetrate the huge market in China.We have enclosed a catalogue of all the specifications and varieties of our products.We are awaiting the opportunity of cooperation with you.Yours faithfully,Mr. Ari KoskiMarketing ManagerEncl.AK/svSample Letter 3: Responding to requests for information about a serviceHuli Trade CorporationZuiyi, Guizhou 563000People’s Republic of ChinaAttention: Mr. Ren Guoping, General ManagerDear Sir,Thank you very much for your interest in our services of project management.We provide consulting, training, contracting and other services specifically designed for the public sector in New Zealand, and the Pacific and Asia.For public sector managers, we are able to provide contractors with extensive experience, knowledge and skills. We are particularly strong in project management support. You can trust our service will definitely increase the efficiency and reduce the cost a great deal.Enclosed are the quotations of our service of product management. Since you are our first client in China, a discount of 10% will be offered.If you have any questions, don’t hesitate to contact us. We are at your service all the time.Yours sincerely,Freemen Cook, ManagerInternational DivisionSample Letter 4: Responding to requests for information about a service5 September 2004Ms. Monika Wagner, ManagerMarketing DepartmentCystec Technology Trading GMBHBachstrasse 3, D-84524Neuotting, Germany (Munich Area)Dear Ms. Wagner,Thank you very much for your interest in our business.We have a highly qualified staff for market survey, including dozens of professional questionnaire designers, market investigators and analysts. Through years of rapid development, we have become a leading firm in our field. Our clients are from all over the world, including Siemens from Germany.We are ready to conduct the survey of the demand of semiconductor（半导体）in northern China for you. Surely we’ll satisfy your needs with our first-rate service.You may find the price list and the various services we’d like to provide in the catalogue enclosed.We look forward to an opportunity to cooperate with you. Thank you!Yours sincerely,Lu HaiPresidentSample Letter 5: Responding to requests for the availability of a product or a serviceAugust 1st, 2004Mr. Krishna, ManagerPurchasing DepartmentMaharani Imp. & Exp. Corporation6, Dhirpur, Main RoadKingsway, Dehli-110009IndiaDear Mr. Shah,I am glad to inform you that Haier refrigerator BCD-219B is available and we are able to supply 550 this month.Due to the high demand at home, we have a tight capacity for foreign customers. Considering the good cooperation between our two firms, however, we are making every effort to meet your needs.We are looking forward to your order.Sincerely yours’Wang BingzhangSales ManagerSample Letter 6: Responding to requests for the availability of a product or a serviceNovember 11, 2004Ms. Xie WeilanDeputy General ManagerPuyang Friendship Corporation120 Zhongyuan RoadPuyang, Henan Province 457001 ChinaDear Ms. Xie,I am pleased to tell you that we are able to provide you with 300 GL980 heat exchangers and 1,000 XCD-450 air dryers. Enclosed are the price list and the payment terms. If you have any questions, please let us know.Your prompt reply would be appreciated. Thank you!Faithfully yours,Bill JoyceMarketing DirectorSample Letter 7: Responding to requests for the availability of a product or a service25 August 2004Mr. Kapa Singh, General ManageBombay Trading CorporationT. G. 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英文回复信范例 Response Letter之欧阳学文创作
Dear Editors and Reviewers,欧阳学文Thank you for your letter and comments on our manuscript titled “Temporal variability in soil moisture after thinning in semi-arid Picea crassifolia plantations in northwestern China” (FORECO_2017_459). These comments helped us improve our manuscript, and provided important guidance for future research. We have addressed the editor’s and the reviewers’ comments to the best of our abilities, and revised text to meet the Forest Ecology and Management stylerequirements. We hope this meets your requirements for a publication.We marked the revised portions in red and highlighted them yellow in the manuscript. The main comments and our specific responses are detailed below:Editor:Please explain how the results in this paper are significantly different from those in Zhu, X., He, Z.B., Du, J., Yang, J.J., Chen, L.F., 2015. Effects of thinning on the soil moisture of the Piceacrassifolia plantation in Qilian Mountains. Forest Research. 28, 55–60.)Response:We apologize for our earlier lack of clarity about the differences between our study and those in “Zhu, X., He, Z.B., Du, J., Yang, J.J., Chen, L.F., 2015. Effects of thinning on the soil moisture of the Picea crassifolia plantation in Qilian Mountains. Forest Research. 28, 55–60” (named “previous article” below).Specifically, we found three main differences inthe temporal variability and hydrological responses of soil moisture between our study and the “previous article”.First, the scope of data analysis and useweredifferent:The “previous article”just appliedthe one growing season data (from June 28th to October25th 2013) from the natural forest and the plantations with no thinning and thinned in 20% intensity. In addition, the “previous article” also has not considered the effect of 40% thinning on the soil moisture of the Picea crassifolia plantation. However, in the present study, we applied four years data (from June 27th2012 to October 30th 2015 in HD and NF;from January1th 2014 to October 29th 2015 in MD and LD) from the natural forest and the plantations with no thinning,thinned in 20%, and thinned in 40%intensity to analysis the temporal variability and hydrological responses of soil moisturein semi-arid Picea crassifolia plantations in northwestern China.Second, the content of the research was different: The “previous article” only considered the spatial and temporal dynamic changes of soil moisture, but did not involve the inter-annual, and seasonal dynamic changes of the soil moisture. In the present study, however, not only did we considered the effects of thinning on the spatial and temporal dynamic changes,the inter-annual changes, and seasonal dynamic changes of the soil moisture; but we also considered the changes in soil hydrological response after thinning.Our goals were to understand the changes in soil hydrological response and soil moisture dynamics, and to determine whether thinning management can effectively improve the state of soil moisture in the subalpine Picea crassifolia plantations in the Qilian Mountains.Third, the research purpose and the result were also different: The mainly purpose of the “previous article” was to preliminary explore the thinning on the plantationforest soil moisture, and they found that the intermediate thinning can significantly increase soil moisture content at the depth of 60 cm.However, theydidn’t point out that which or what the thinning intensity or plantation density can bebenefit to sustainability of planted forests in these water-limited regions.In this study, not only we did confirmed that the intermediate thinning can significantly increase soil moisture content at the deep soil layer, but we also found that high planting density was the main cause of severe soil moisture deficits in the long-term, and it could be mitigated by 20 - 40% thinning (~3139 trees ha-1).In addition,by investigating the effect of thinning on the soil hydrological response,we found that soil hydrological response may be temporarily modified by thinning according to changes in canopy structure, precipitation properties, and antecedent soil moisture conditions. Soil moisture in natural forest rapidly infiltrated into deep soil, which greatly improved theefficiency of precipitation use. Thinning significantly increased the capacity for soil infiltration, and moderate thinning intensity may be conducive to deep soil-water recharge. Further, according to the global circulation prediction models andtrend analysisresults and weather patterns, deep VSWC may increase if precipitation patterns shift to produce larger but less frequent rainfall events during the growing season, and this change will benefit growth of the vegetation planted at higher density in this semi-arid region. Reviewer 1I found the topic very interesting. The scientific (experimental) set-up is valid and the data is presented clearly, and analyzed in detail. My detailed comments are all in the attached pdf-file. Response:Thank you for your encouraging remarks and valuable comments. We corrected our text according to your comments submitted in the attached pdf-file. Our responses to your comments are as follows:Comments in attached pdf-file1. Keywords: maybe re-consider “Rainfall”Response:We fully agree that it is necessary to re-consider “Rainfall” in the Keywords section. In addition, the statement of “Rainfall” was corrected as “Soil hydrological response” (L31).2. Ln. 37: Expand, i.e. why are these specific regions water-limited. Response:We apologize for our earlier lack of clarity. To increase clarity, we have re-written this sentence accordingly, and we have corrected “Grassland afforestation is critical in efforts to prevent wide-spread land degradation in arid and semi-arid regions of China (Chen et al., 2008a; Yang et al., 2014). However, sustainability of planted forests is severely limited by soil moisture conditions. Soil moisture is fundamental to sustainability in water-limited ecosystems (Newman et al., 2006; Yang et al., 2014).” as “Grassland afforestation is critical in efforts to prevent wide-spread land degradation in arid and semi-arid regions of China (Chen et al., 2008a; Yang et al., 2014), where rainfall is the main source of soil moisture, and where many vegetation restoration projects were implemented (Li, 2004). However, soilmoisture is the most crucial factor to sustainability of planted forests in these water-limited ecosystems (Newman et al., 2006; Yang et al., 2014).(L35-40)”.3. Ln. 47: What is meant by “statistical moments of soil moisture, such as mean and variance”?Response:It is meant thatchanges to canopy structure due to large-scale clearings or intermediate disturbance events may lead to changes in the mean and the variance of the soil moisture.We amended our text to clarify, and now it reads: “Changes to forest canopy structure due to large-scale harvesting may lead to changes in soil properties, residual tree growth, and the mean and the variance of the soil moisture (Chen et al., 1993; Olchev et al., 2009; He et al., 2013; Kaarakka et al., 2014).” (L48-51).4. Ln. 60: add “ecosystems” (instead of co system) Response:The statement of “cosystem” was corrected as “ecosystems” (L62).5. Ln. 68: change “determining” to “affecting”Response:The statement of “determining” was corrected as“affecting” (L71).6. Ln. 71: Expand this sentence a bit. Growing season – where? At the studied region/area?Response: To increase clarity, we have re-written this sentence accordingly(L71-75).And our studied region/areais also experiencing this precipitation patterns, with larger but less frequent rainfall events during the growing season, and more frequent extreme hydrological events.7. Ln. 74–80: Heisler-White, He et al. and Sun et al. → showed where, in what type of ecosystem, how does it relate to the studied one, i.e. elaborate more on how these studies relate to the current one.Response:That was an excellent suggestion, and we have made revisions according to your comments (L78-80, L83, L85-86).The study ofHeisler-White et al. (2008) provides a background knowledge of the supply of the precipitation on soil profile.The studies of He et al. (2012) and Sun et al. (2015) investigated the soil moisture dynamics of typical ecosystems (forestland,shrubland, grassland, and meadows) in response to precipitation, which can provide a reference for our research.提供背景知识，了解降水对土壤的补给情况；He et al. and Sun et al.的研究研究了祁连山天然植被（林地、草地和灌丛）的土壤水分情况，是本文章研究的基础。
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写论文如导大片, 投论文如谈恋爱精选已有5767 次阅读 2011-4-24 08:26 |个人分类:论文写作|系统分类:论文交流|关键词:manuscript submission, in love标题中的前半部分，我已经在另外一个博文中谈过（参见：治大国如烹小鲜，写论文如导大片），本文就谈后本半部分。
谈恋爱和论文投稿（本文主要谈英文论文投稿）看起来是风马牛不相及的两个事情，但是两者都需要两情相悦，互相欣赏，两者还是许多相通之处的，下面就结合恋爱这件事，谈谈自己对论文投稿的“一忌两要”，但愿这个“一忌两要”，您看了之后等真正成为您论文投稿的“一剂良药”。
1.“忌早恋”：对于谈恋爱而言，早恋的危害，在知名作家肖复兴先生写的小说《早恋》已有深刻描述。
未成年人过早谈恋爱可能会危害人的一生，同样的道理，一篇文章，其实很多情况下就相当于一个故事，故事还没有讲完，还不完整，还没有发育成熟，就由于种种原因（比如急着毕业、职称晋升等）仓促投出去，这样做的害处是很明显的，和早恋类似，有点自己作践自己，因为这样的稿件，投出去，往往都过不了编辑部内审这一关，现在象样点的SCI期刊都是先将投稿初步筛选一下，像这样明显不完整、有硬伤的稿件不经外审就直接据稿了。
当然这样的稿件也许最终还是会在影响因子(impact factor, IF)很低的期刊上发表，这就像有些未成年少女早恋，少不更事失了身，最后草草把自己嫁给了一个自己不满意的男人。
2. “要门当户对”：此言一出，估计会惹板砖无数，认为我现在都什么年代了，还在提封建社会那一套，我所说的“门当户对”是指大致的门当户对，不但包括家庭条件，更包括自身条件。
古今中外，甚至上朔至古埃及时代，一直以来都有各种版本的有关灰姑娘的故事（当然这也包括男版灰姑娘的故事，英语都是Cinderella）,就是现在这个社会还有N多的靓女想嫁入豪门（当然也有不少男人也想入赘豪门）。
对于科研人员而言，著名刊物Science、Nature等牛刊无疑就是“豪门”，多少人想将自己的稿件能嫁入这样的豪门。
有这样的想法很正常，但是，问题是：我们投稿是否都要先往这些牛刊撞撞大运？！Science的现任主编（即：Dr.Bruce Alberts）曾经在中国访问时就曾公开说来自中国的稿件（指投向Science）的据稿率是最高的，说明有这种想法的人不是少数，现在我们国家一切都看IF的奖励政策，就更加加剧了许多人的灰姑娘的梦想，“有枣没枣来一杆”，先投一把再说，一般而言，高IF的期刊一般要首先由专业学术编辑对稿件进行初审，初审通过后，一般还要邀请至少两位（当然，有的只有一位，有的期刊则高达8位）审稿人外审，通过这样的专家评审，一篇明显很烂的文章想蒙混过关的很能性很小。
一位有经验的科研人员对于的稿件是何水平，有几斤几两会有比较清楚的判断，比如他/她如果认为自己的文章大致是IF=5的水平，可能会先投稍微IF稍微高一些的期刊，比如6-8分的，最多不超过10分的，一般不会不自量力的去投Science、Nature。
这就像江苏卫视《非诚勿扰》曾经的一位女嘉宾，其貌不扬、家境也很一般，却扬言月收入10万以下的男人免谈（这个收入即使是在发达国家也是高收入），除了被人耻笑，没有多大用处，这样自视甚高的男女嘉宾最后挑来挑去就成了剩男剩女，投稿也是如此，最后一路被拒（杯具）期间，可能别的研究组抢了先，发表了类似的论文，本来还可以发IF=5左右的期刊，结果不得不降价处理，最后蜗居在一个IF低的可怜的期刊上。
所以，论文投稿，豪门梦适可而止。
不然，下场可能会很惨。
3.“要培养感情”:“一见钟情”对于恋爱和投稿（比如主编看稿后直接接受了）都可能会发生，但是毕竟这种概率并不太高，谈恋爱更多的是一个培养、加深感情的过程。
而投稿对于感情培养，虽然没有谈恋爱期间那么重要，但是也是值得重视的，这个培养贯穿于整个投稿的全过程，比如：初投稿时，稿件是否符合期刊的格式，期刊的投稿须知部分是否读了，一篇明显不符合期刊格式，稿件内容有许多明显错误的稿件是很容易让编辑上火的，觉得自己没被尊重，问题严重时，如上所述，直接被被拒了。
另外，在稿件修回时，修回稿的回复信（即response letter）更是培养感情的一个绝佳机会（我不日将会有博文专门讨论这个话题），本文就不多谈了，总的原则是：要充分尊重编辑和审稿人。
一个课题组如果经常在某个期刊发高质量的论文，建起了信誉，也和编辑/主编建立了感情，以后在该期刊发表论文就会越来越容易，这是一个良性循环的过程。
再牛的作者，如果太“拽”了，也照样“杯具”。
比如Nature的一个子刊(Nature Review系列)的编辑就曾发文谈到，有的作者在投稿的cover letter中想仗势欺人或者耍大牌，有的作者就写到：本文主要内容已在某个国际会议上交流时被某诺贝尔奖得主所肯定、赞赏（言外之意：诺贝尔奖得主都放话肯定了，你们看着办！），像这样的牛刊的编辑可不是吓大的（当然，哪个期刊的编辑都不是，照样还要经过常规的同行评审），人家见的诺贝尔奖得主多的去了，作者这种“拽”法，只能导致自己的稿件死的快！总之：论文投稿至少要注意上述的“一忌两要”，最终才会进入婚姻的殿堂（论文发表）。
也顺祝科学网的年轻网友恋爱、投稿两不误，爱情、事业双丰收！Ｐ.S.上述三点的都还算不上大问题，我们知道，恋爱中的一个大忌是脚踏两只船（甚至N只），投稿同样的道理，好女不可多嫁，一稿也不可多投，这是严重学术不端行为，尽管在我国有许多人这么干，但在欧美可能会导致严重后果，就是在我国，由于一稿多投被撤稿的也有不少案例了。
所以希望刚入科研这条道的网友重视这一点。
回复要“周全”: SCI英文论文修回稿回复信常见问题和错误分析精选已有9642 次阅读 2011-4-25 01:58 |个人分类:论文写作|系统分类:论文交流|关键词:response letter, polite, detailed本文可以说是我的另一博文的续篇（参见：写论文如导大片, 投论文如谈恋爱），在该文中，我提到：“在稿件修回时，修回稿的回复信（即response letter）更是培养感情的一个绝佳机会。
”论文投出后，经过忐忑不安地（甚至有的作者是焦虑地）等待，如果幸运，就会有修回的机会，当然也有可能是杯具，但是直接接受的可能性非常的低（当然，极个别期刊如BBRC除外，参见我的另一博文）。
恰好近期有机会审了一些来自国内的英文论文投稿，发现在修回稿的回复信有不少共同的问题，值得网友，尤其是新手注意，下面就response letter这个话题谈谈自己的一些看法。
当然如果您已经有N篇SCI文章，下面的内容也许就不用浪费您时间了，对于SCI 老手而言，下述内容应该都是常识了。
标题为何强调“周全”？先按下不表，文末您就会知道答案。
现结合自己的经验和体会，分述如下：1. “礼”不够：下面图片中的response letter的要点来自理文编辑网站，前面两点都是关于礼貌的，国际学术期刊的审稿人都是义务（无任何报酬）审稿的，人家辛辛苦苦审完稿，指出投稿的问题，自然会理所当然的会希望作者的肯定和感谢，这应该是起码的基本常识，我国又是N年的礼仪之邦，但是，我见过的相当多的论文修回回复信中没有看到对编辑/主编和审稿人有任何的感谢、感激的字眼。
俗话说，“礼多人不怪”，这可以说是放之四海而皆准的真理，反过来说，礼少，人必怪！多说你个谢字，不花作者一个大子，于人于己都有利何乐而不为呢？惹得编辑/主编和审稿人不爽，那是想让自己的文章死的快！２.回复信的开头要先写上文章的基本信息：如manuscript tracking number, title, author等，另外还要加上是投给哪个期刊的。
3.对编辑/主编的称呼：许多信的抬头是“Dear Editor”,这种通用的格式，会使编辑/主编感觉作者对自己不尊重，在文章修回后，处理的编辑/主编的名字肯定是已经知道的，所以此时应该称呼编辑的名字（姓即可），即：Dear Dr. xxx(the family name of the editor)。
我自己曾经做过某SCI期刊的兼职编辑，对此有切身体会，我明明都注明自己的名字并是Ph.D.,但是不少作者还是称呼俺“Dear Editor”,当然作者的本意可能觉得这样是为了尊重编辑，但是，可以换位思考一下，如果您是王姓教授，别人不叫您王教授，只是称呼“教授”，您有何感？有的网友对此，不以为然，认为自己一直就是这样称呼的，文章也都发表了许多，当然，任何一位负责任的编辑/主编都不会因为这样的“小节”而据稿，但是，如果这样的“不拘小节”多了，也许…. (您懂得)。
4.回复信要详细：这一点非常重要，很多作者不知道这一点。
那么回复信要详细到什么程度呢？基本原则是：所有的审稿人不用看修改稿，只需看回复信即可清楚了解作者几乎所有的修改。
所修改过的内容，包括图表都要放到回复信中，如果关于文字修改太多，无法一一展示，也要举几个改动大的例子。
即使有的审稿人的问题和另外一个审稿人的问题重复，也要分别回答，别怕回复信长，我就见过３０多页的回复信。
另外审稿人的问题和作者的回答要显著区分开，比如用黑体等方式，总之，要让审稿人阅读方便、一目了然。
当然也不能走向另外一个极端，认为是回复信越长越好，用超长的回复信将审稿人砸晕，我们写回复信不是为了挣按字数计算的稿费，说话也要到点子上，审稿人大都是忙人，东拉西扯很可能会误事。
5.要认真：有位牛人说“共/产／党最怕认真二字”，审稿人也最怕作者认真，最上火的大概就是作者粗心了。
举个例子来说，审稿人要求作者更正某笔误或大小写等小问题，这类的问题往往不至一处，很可能文章的许多地方都需要做相应的修改，作者在回复信中说我们都做了修改，但是审稿人一看修改稿，发现还有不少没有改过来，试想，审稿人忙了一天了，晚上加班加点审修改稿，本来对作者蹩脚的英语已经整得一头火了，现在又看到作者如此粗心，当然会很不爽，另外作者这方面的粗心，很容易使审稿人造成这样一种印象：作者写个response letter都如此粗心，想必做实验也是如此，实验结果也就不可靠，所以，有人说态度决定一切，有一定道理，认真可能成就一篇文章，粗心几乎可以肯定会毁掉一篇文章。
综上所述，修回稿的回复信主要要注意：“礼”要周，修改的内容要“全”，简称“周全”。
请问，您的回复信周全了吗？P.S.另外，特别推荐一篇科学网有关response letter的出色博文，标题为：“如何回应审稿人的批评？”，博主为香港大学的金冬雁教授（这个名字，估计搞分子生物学的不知道的不多）（王守业草于2011年2月，修改于2011年4月2４日，本文初稿曾贴于丁香园论文版。