General Procedure
To submit your reviews, please go to http://mc.manuscriptcentral.com/amle and log in to your account. Manuscripts assigned to you for review are listed in the "Awaiting Reviewer Scores" list below. You can view the manuscript by clicking on its title. To view reviewer instructions and access the score sheet, click on the "View Details" button.
Comments to Authors
- ALWAYS maintain a polite, professional, constructive tone.
- DO try to make your revisions developmental. We are trying to develop authors as well as evaluate their work.
- DO NOT give an editorial opinion about publication in these Comments (e.g., "this is a fine paper that should definitely be published"). Reviewers often disagree about the bottom line decision. The Editor must weigh all considerations voiced and then write an editorial decision.
- DO separate and number your comments, rather than writing them in straight narrative style. Then in communicating with authors, the editor can say things like "pay particular attention to points 2 and 5 raised by Reviewer #9999."
- DO cite page numbers when referring to specific sections of the manuscript.
- There is no clearly preferred strategy for organizing comments to the authors. Some reviewers organize their comments in terms of the rating dimensions. Others address points sequentially, as they appear in the paper. Still others organize their comments by importance: Most critical concerns first, followed by relatively minor points. Use the approach that best suits you.
Manuscript Evaluation Form, with Comments for Editor
Use this section sparingly. My preference is for you to communicate the same information to authors as you do the Editor. Occasionally, however, additional comments are appropriate, e.g.:
- A clarification of your recommendation, e.g., "If it were up to me, I'd publish this if the author successfully deals with the concerns raised in point 3 of my Comments to Authors."
- Contextual information, e.g., "Please interpret my comments in light of the fact that I have a strong bias against this general approach to the topic..."
- Issues about which you are uncertain, e.g. "I think there's a relatively large literature on this topic in sociology that the author is ignoring, but..."
