LaTeX Template for Review Responses

This repository is adapted from Karl-Ludwig Besser's template, which provides a simple LaTeX template for writing responses to reviewers. You may preview the PDF file here

Usage

In order to use the reviewresponse.sty package in your document, simply include the following line in your LaTeX document

\usepackage[journal={Name of the Journal},
            manuscript={Number/ID of the Manuscript},
            editor={Name of the Editor}]{reviewresponse}

Commands

The following commands are provided by the package.
If you are using TeXstudio, there exists an autocomplete file (.cwl) for the reviewresponse.sty package, which can be found here.

Editor and Reviewers

\editor
\reviewer

These commands start a new editor and reviewer. The typical usage is

\begin{document}
...
\editor
Response to the editor

\reviewer
Response to the first reviewer

\reviewer
Response to the second reviewer

Comments and Responses

\begin{generalcomment}
...
\end{generalcomment}

The generalcomment environment is meant for general comments given by the editor and reviewers.

\begin{revcomment}
...
\end{revcomment}

The revcomment environment is meant for the individual comments made by the reviewers. They are automatically numbered.

It also accepts optional arguments, which are directly passed to the underlying tcolorbox environment. This is useful, if you want to add some arguments in specific situations, e.g., the breakable keyword for very long comments.

\begin{revresponse}[Optional Parameter]
...
\end{revresponse}

The revresponse environment is meant for responses to the individual comments of the reviewers and editor. The optional parameter changes the text on the first line. By default, this text is "Thank you for the comment.".

Changes

\begin{changes}
...
\end{changes}

The changes environment is meant for indicating changes that you made to your manuscript. It sets the content in a box in order to highlight it for the reviewers.

Bibliography

The reviewresponse package supports the use of biblatex for references. Simply include biblatex and use the \cite command in your response.

If you want to print specific references, e.g., at the end of the response to one particular comment, you can use the \printpartbibliography command.

\printpartbibliography{bibkey1,bibkey2,...}

Customization

You can customize the appearance of all the boxes in the reviewresponse.sty file.

If you only want to change the colors of the boxes, you need to redefine the following colors. The shown values are the defaults.

\definecolor{colorcommentfg}{RGB}{0,63,87}  % color of the title in the comment box
\definecolor{colorcommentbg}{HTML}{e0f0f6} % color of the background of the comment box
\definecolor{colorcommentframe}{RGB}{0,112,155} % color of the frame of the comment box

\colorlet{colorchangebg}{black!2} % color of the background of the changes box
\colorlet{colorchangeframe}{black!20} % color of the frame of the changes box