Q: The journal has returned my resubmitted manuscript. What should I do?
I submitted a manuscript, and I got the peer review comment. I resubmitted the revised manuscript, but it cannot be received at the journal. I got the following message from the journal: “Please include with your resubmission a clean and track changed version of your revised submission”. What action should I take?
What the journal means is that you have to send a new copy of your revised manuscript using track changes. This is a tool in Microsoft Word which allows you to show any markups, changes or comments made to a document. This resource will help you understand how to use track changes on a word document. Use the original version of the manuscript that you first sent to the journal and make all the changes suggested by the reviewers using track changes. That way it will be easier for the journal editor to compare the original and the revised versions.
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