{"id":1166,"date":"2013-09-27T10:57:40","date_gmt":"2013-09-27T14:57:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.nature.com\/methagora\/?p=1166"},"modified":"2014-03-25T13:41:57","modified_gmt":"2014-03-25T17:41:57","slug":"the-dos-and-donts-of-communicating-with-editors-and-reviewers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.nature.com\/methagora\/2013\/09\/the-dos-and-donts-of-communicating-with-editors-and-reviewers.html","title":{"rendered":"The dos and don&#8217;ts of communicating with editors and reviewers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Some thoughts and advice from the editors at <em>Nature Methods<\/em> on communicating with us and our reviewers, particularly on matters of disagreement.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>In the over nine years that we at <em>Nature Methods<\/em> have been interacting with authors and reviewers we have experienced a great variety of communication strategies. Some work well&#8230;others don&#8217;t. In our October <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nature.com\/nmeth\/journal\/v10\/n10\/full\/nmeth.2686.html\">Editorial<\/a> we discuss how neglecting to word criticism productively can undermine the value of the criticism and short-circuit this critical aspect of scientific discourse.<\/p>\n<p>In the three posts that follow we provide practical advice for communicating with editors and reviewers during three critical steps of the publication process.  These are: the <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.nature.com\/methagora\/2013\/09\/how-to-write-a-cover-letter.html\"><strong>cover letter<\/strong><\/a>, the <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.nature.com\/methagora\/2013\/09\/how-to-write-a-rebuttal-letter.html\"><strong>rebuttal letter<\/strong><\/a> and the <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.nature.com\/methagora\/2013\/09\/how-to-write-an-appeal-letter.html\"><strong>appeal letter<\/strong><\/a>. We hope you find these guides useful and encourage readers to comment on the points made and suggest dos and don&#8217;ts of their own.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.nature.com\/methagora\/2013\/09\/how-to-write-a-cover-letter.html\" title=\"How to write a cover letter\"><strong>How to write a cover letter<\/strong><\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.nature.com\/methagora\/2013\/09\/how-to-write-a-rebuttal-letter.html\" title=\"How to write a rebuttal letter\"><strong>How to write a rebuttal letter<\/strong><\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.nature.com\/methagora\/2013\/09\/how-to-write-an-appeal-letter.html\" title=\"How to write an appeal letter\"><strong>How to write an appeal letter<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Update:<\/strong> It has been suggested that we write a dos and don&#8217;ts for reviewers. We agree this could be just as useful for improving the peer review process, possibly more so, and hope to be able to provide this soon.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Some thoughts and advice from the editors at Nature Methods on communicating with us and our reviewers, particularly on matters of disagreement.&nbsp; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.nature.com\/methagora\/2013\/09\/the-dos-and-donts-of-communicating-with-editors-and-reviewers.html#more-1166\" class=\"more-link\">Read more<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.nature.com\/methagora\/2013\/09\/the-dos-and-donts-of-communicating-with-editors-and-reviewers.html\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":257,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[101,7,9],"tags":[65,132],"class_list":["post-1166","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-featured","category-general-interest","category-journal-policy","tag-peer-review","tag-publishing"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.nature.com\/methagora\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1166","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.nature.com\/methagora\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.nature.com\/methagora\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.nature.com\/methagora\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/257"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.nature.com\/methagora\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1166"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.nature.com\/methagora\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1166\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.nature.com\/methagora\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1166"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.nature.com\/methagora\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1166"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.nature.com\/methagora\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1166"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}