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Submitting a Revision
Sending the revised anonymous manuscript and your response to the reviewers to the editors as a new round.
When the editor issues a revision decision, your submission moves to the Revision requested status. The Submit the revision section opens at the top of the submission's page, and you send your revision from there.
- On the Decisions & reviews tab, read the decision letter and the reviewer comments shared with you.
- In the Submit the revision section, upload the Revised anonymous manuscript file. If its text contains an author's name, e-mail address or ORCID iD, the warning "The text of the file names an author" appears under the file. Take these details out of the text and upload the file again.
- In the Response to the reviewers field, write how you responded to each reviewer comment. The text must be at least 20 characters long. Instead, you can also upload your response as a file in the Response file (optional) field.
- If you need to change the title or the abstract, press Update title / abstract and make the correction in the wizard.
- When the virus scan of the files has finished, press Submit the revision and confirm.
The revision goes to the editors as a new review round, and your submission moves to the Revision submitted status. The files and your response in this round cannot be changed later. The author list and the declarations do not change in a revision either.
Title, abstract and required fields
When you submit the revision, the information the first submission required is checked again. The title, the abstract, the keywords and the required fields of the work's type cannot be empty. If you cleared a field in the wizard to rewrite it, fill it in before you submit. While a field is missing, the Submit the revision section names it and the revision is not sent.
Response text
Do not reveal your identity in your response or in the revised manuscript, because the reviewers see these files. Your response text is kept as a draft in this browser until you send it.
Deadline and reminder
The revision deadline is shown at the top of the section. You receive one reminder e-mail and panel notification before the deadline. With the default setting, the reminder goes out 3 days before the deadline.
If you need more time, write to the editors on the Messages tab before the deadline. What happens when the deadline passes is described in The revision deadline has passed.