Revising Your Manuscript

Submission Instructions

If you are submitting a revised manuscript, upload your revised submission to the submission system and include the following items:

• Response to reviewers: Address the specific points made by each reviewer. Include your responses to all the reviewers’ and editors’ comments and list the changes you have made to the manuscript. Remember, if you choose to publish the peer review history of your manuscript, your response to reviewers will appear online alongside the final article. Upload this document as a “Response to reviewers” file.

• Revised manuscript (clean copy): Upload a clean copy of your revised manuscript. Upload this as your “Manuscript” file.

• Revised manuscript (marked-up copy): Include a marked-up copy of your manuscript file showing the changes you have made since the original submission. The best way to show these changes is the “Track Changes” option in Microsoft Word. Upload this as a "Revised Article with Changes Highlighted” file.
• Figure and supporting information files: Upload separate manuscript, figure, and supporting information files, if you have not done so already. Read the figure guidelines for more information about figure requirements at revision.

Request an Extension

Our standard resubmission deadlines are 60 days for a Major Revision decision and 30 days for a Minor Revision decision. We are always happy to grant short extensions for resubmissions. Please email plosgenetics@plos.org with any questions.