Peer Review · Revise & Resubmit
Response to Reviewers
Copy editing and British English translation of response-to-reviewers letters and revised manuscripts—ensuring complete alignment between your rebuttal, the changes made in the text, and your target journal's guidelines.
What's Included
Clear, Diplomatic, and Rigorous Responses to Peer Reviewers
Five Levels of Review in Every Resubmission
• Diplomatic, Authoritative Academic Tone: Firm, courteous, point-by-point responses—even when pushing back against a reviewer's objection. • Exact Alignment Between Letter and Manuscript: Verifying that every revision promised in the rebuttal letter matches the updated text (page, line, table, or figure numbers). • Post-Revision Coherence: Checking that newly added paragraphs or data integrate seamlessly with the rest of the paper, tables, and figures. • Bibliography & DOI Updates: Checking newly added references introduced during revision and verifying their active DOI links. • Fast Turnaround for Resubmission Deadlines: Guaranteed delivery dates with full tracked changes so you can upload your revised package on time.
The Process
A rigorous, hands-on process
Scholarly publication requires absolute precision. I never simply run a text through a machine and send it back: I edit and check every line myself, and nothing leaves my desk without my full review. Every paper undergoes a thorough three-stage refinement cycle.
01. Send Your Anonymised Data
Email your anonymised clinical dataset, a brief outline of your core clinical findings, and your target journal to mark@markbyrnecopyeditor.com.
02. Fixed Quote Within 24 Hours
I send you a fixed fee and delivery schedule within 24 hours, including one revision round after team review and a second round following peer-reviewer comments.
03. Publication-Ready Delivery
I deliver both the response letter and the revised manuscript ready to upload, alongside tracked-changes copies and—where required by the journal—an updated editing certificate. All documents are treated in strict confidence.
Selected projects
Clinical case series in paediatric hepatology—medical writing in British English for Annals of Hepatology
François Ost, Legal Tales — translation (French → English), Brill
Paola Mittica, The Thinking That Feels — translation (Italian → English), Brill
Joaquín González Ibáñez, The Rule of Law as a Goal and Principle of International Human Rights Law — copyediting, University for Peace (UPEACE Press), 2025
Adolfo Estalella, Ethnographic Experimentation — copyediting, Routledge
Yolanda López-Muñiz Rodrigo, Voices of Route 66 — copyediting
Copyeditor and translator for Small Business International Review (Scopus-indexed) since 2021
Research articles and chapters for Brill, Routledge and the CSIC, across economics, law, archaeology, dentistry, philosophy and the social sciences
Publication and logistics
Which style guides do you support?
How do we handle specialized terminology?
I work with all the major academic style guides, including APA, Chicago, AMA, Vancouver and Harvard. Just tell me your target journal's requirements.
We collaborate closely. You can provide a glossary of preferred terms, and I verify every technical term against established peer-reviewed literature in your field.
How quickly can you deliver?
Do you offer publication guarantees?
Yes — including Horizon Europe and ERC applications. Grant proposals have their own conventions and hard deadlines, so I'd recommend contacting me as early as possible before your submission date to make sure I have capacity.
Yes. All documents are treated in strict confidence as standard, and I'm happy to sign an NDA for grant proposals, unpublished research, or any material your institution requires it for.
Do you edit grant or funding proposals?
Turnaround depends on the length and complexity of the text, and I'll always agree a deadline with you before starting. I'm known for being reliable — I've never missed a deadline in 35 years.
Do you sign confidentiality agreements?
No honest editor can guarantee acceptance — that depends on your research and the reviewers. What I can promise is that your English won't be the reason for rejection: your text will be clear, correct and idiomatic.
Ready to prepare your manuscript?
Send the reviewers' comments, your draft rebuttal letter, and the revised manuscript in Word to mark@markbyrnecopyeditor.com, stating the target journal and deadline. I will reply within 24 hours with a fixed quote covering native British copy editing or translation, cross-checking between letter and manuscript, table checks, and verification of new references.
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