This decision tree is intended to help authors determine how to navigate various scenarios involving a reviewer’s request for additional animal experiments. It contains suggested text that authors may use in their reviewer response.
Authors should feel free to edit and adapt the example responses as they see fit and to personalize each response. Authors should always keep responses professional and courteous. Authors should fill in the [bracketed text] as it appropriately applies to their manuscript and reviews. Begin by answering the question below.
Is the request clear?