Revised manuscript

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After external review, the editor would have gauged the revisions needed as being feasible and capable of being completed within three (3) months.  Revisions will be requested by the editor via email, with instructions on how to proceed to create and upload a revised submission on the book website. In your books personalised section your submission will move in the active table from having the status External Review: Revisions Required.

 

When you prepare a revised version of your manuscript, it is essential that you follow the instructions given in the editor’s letter and the reviewer comments (when provided) very carefully.

 

Time limits

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Authors must stay within the following time limits:

• Revisions received more than three months after being requested may be sent for another review cycle, at the editor’s discretion.
• Revisions received more than six months after being requested may be closed and considered withdrawn from consideration.

 

How to submit a revision

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Submit your revision by:

1. Preparing the required three documents for uploading.
2. Uploading the three documents.
3. Informing the editor via email of your submitted revision.

 

 1. Preparing the required three documents for uploading:

• DOCUMENT 1: The feedback summary to the Commissioning Editor: A complete and concise, point-by-point response specifying how you have addressed each of the editor’s and reviewer’s comments. Where suggestions have not been followed, you must explain and justify your decision. This should include specific references to sections, pages and paragraph numbers where alterations were made in the text.
• DOCUMENT 2: Annotated version of the revisions made on the original manuscript: The annotated copy should have highlights of the changes (either by using the track changes function in Microsoft Word or by highlighting or underlining text) with notes in the text referring to the editor’s or reviewer’s query. If references, tables or figures are moved, added or deleted during the revision process, renumber them to reflect such changes so that they continue to be cited in numerical order. Images need only be uploaded if changes have been made to them since the previous version.
• DOCUMENT 3: Clean version of the revised manuscript.

 

 2. Uploading the three documents:

• STEP 1: When you have addressed the comments and completed your revisions, log into your books personalised section and click on External Review.
• STEP 2: Once your revisions are correctly formatted and prepared, navigate to the table labelled Revisions and click on the Upload File link to begin uploading your revised manuscript from your desktop. Ensure that you upload a clean version, an annotated version and a point-by-point version as part of your revised manuscript submission.

 

 3. Informing the editor via email of your submitted revision: 
Once all three documents are uploaded, you will need to inform the Commissioning Editor via email of your submitted revision. Click on the Review Discussion and proceed to type up and send an email the editor.