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1、组组 员：赵员：赵 军军 郑郑 猛猛 胡中元胡中元 徐鹏飞徐鹏飞 韦振菁韦振菁COVER LETTERCover letterFollow-up Correspondence（催稿信）（催稿信）Revised Manuscript ( (稿件退修稿件退修) )2Main contents3 1.The importance of a cover letterv(1) An outstanding cover letter can give the editor an excellent impression. It can be used as a prologue (or an openin

2、g remark).v(2) The cover letter is typically the initial communication which you have with the editor about your manuscript .Then, based on the letter and the abstract of the manuscript, the editor will decide if the article is worth sending to peers for scientific reviewing.v(3) For the cover lette

3、r can be seen as the abstract of your article, it can partly represent your writing standard. 2.How to write a cover lettervkeep it concise and clear and give prominence to the key points. vYour cover letter should be prepared less than one page.43.The information in a Cover Letter v(1)The informati

4、on of the correspondent; v(2)The title of the manuscript, the numbers of tables, figures, charts, plates and so on;v(3)The statement that this manuscript has never been partly or wholly published in or submitted to any other journals;v(4)The statement that all authors in the manuscript have agreed t

5、o submit it to this journal and its better to have each ones signature;5v(5)The statement that the research in the manuscript has been conducted under the guidance of international ethical standards if the research uses animals as experimental materials; v(6)Suggested reviewers you think that are ap

6、propriate for this manuscript;v(7)The statement on the inappropriate reviewers for this manuscript, and its better to state the reasons in concise words;v(8)Some journals require the authors to briefly introduce his research purposes, methods and results.6vDepartment of Publication, NSFCv83 Shuangqi

7、ng Road, Haidian DistrictvBeijing 100083, P R ChinavJuly 18, 2001vProfessor T. Braun, Editor-in-Chief of ScientometericsvInstitute of Inorganic and Analytical Chemistry vEtvs Lornd University vH-1443 Budapest-70, P.O. Box 123 vHungaryvDear Editor:vThis is a manuscript entitled “International visibil

8、ity of Chinese scientific journals” by Shengli Ren and Ronald Rousseau. It is submitted to be considered for publication as an “Article” in your journal. vAll authors have read and approved this version of the article, and due care has been taken to ensure the integrity of the work. Neither the enti

9、re paper nor any part of its content has been published or has been accepted elsewhere. It is not being submitted to any other journal.7The information of the correspondenceNever been published in any other journalsStatement of all authors vWe believe the paper may be of particular interest to the r

10、eaders of your journal as it .vCorrespondence should be addressed to Shengli Ren at the following address, phone and fax number, and email address:v vThank you very much for your attention to our paper. vSincerely yours,vShengli Ren (签名签名)vRonald Rousseau (签名签名)8The information of the correspondent4

11、. Things You Should Never Mention (1) Irrelevant personal information.(2) Announcements of your unprofessional or unpublished status.(3) Hype.(4) Apologies about your article (or yourself).(5) A description of the articles flaws.(6) Explanations of why you are sending material that doesnt match the

12、publications guidelines.9(7) Demands or expectations.(8) Opinions of your family, friends, or writing teachers.(9) A list of prior rejections.(10) Dont forget to check grammar and spelling. 10Follow-up CorrespondencevIf you do not receive acknowledgment within 2 weeks, call or write the editorial of

13、fice to verify that your manuscript was indeed received.11vDear editor,After the submission of our manuscript entitled Cancer classification by expression profiles: microRNA versus mRNA (tracking number: 2007-10-11332) to Nature, six weeks have passed. So I would like to inquire the status of our ma

14、nuscript.We think that our comments on the original paper of Nature will cause widespread interest to both experts and non-experts. This is because microRNA is a hot spot in life science; the author of the original paper is a VIP in cancer research based on gene expression profiles, with a SCI H ind

15、ex of 45, total citations more than 15,000 times, and this paper citied 365 times; and the algorithm we proposed outperforms the recent state-of-the-art algorithm. Moreover, by using other state-of-the-art algorithms, we can also prove that the original authors main conclusions are wrong.I am lookin

16、g forward to your reply. Thanks a lot.12Revised ManuscriptvWhen you receive a modify letter, examine it and the accompanying reviewers comments carefully.vIf the reviewers are right, you should follow their directions and rewrite the manuscript accordingly.vIf the reviewers and the editor seriously

17、misread or misunderstood your manuscript, you may explain it reasonably and logically. 13vDear editor:vThanks a lot for having reviewed our manuscript. Now we have revised the manuscript according to the reviewers comments. Most of the revisions are in the manuscript. Some explanations regarding the revisions of our manuscript are as follows. vDear Prof. XXXX,vThank you very much for your letter and the comments from the referees about our paper