除编辑部的专职编辑以外，Journal of Mountain Science的编委和科学编辑也担任相应数量的稿件的责任编辑，他们负责筛选合适的审稿人并邀请审稿人，与审稿人和作者联系沟通，根据审稿人的意见和自己的判断作出Reject或者Major Revison、Minor Revision、Accept的推荐意见，并将审稿意见和根据本刊要求需要进行格式和规范修改的其他意见一并发给作者，提请作者进行相应的修改。

如果一篇文章有几份审稿意见，而且几份意见在推荐是否发表上意见有分岐，此时责编要认真阅读原稿和几位审稿人的意见，结合期刊的要求和规范以及选稿原则，向主编作出推荐。文章需要作者修改的，要向作者提出明确的具体的要求，以免作者在几份审稿意见面前无所适从。下面展示的这封信即是一位责编给作者的修改信（注：由于审稿人的意见较长，未附在此文中）。

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Dear Dr XXX,

I received the revisions of two independent anonymous reviewers. They believe that your work is interesting and has something new to offer. They are very positive with the contribution of your work, but they are also critical. Both of them mentioned, and I agree, that the manuscript is rather long and needs a narrower of focus. One of them has hesitations about the use of the term “degradation”. Please, try to follow their comments (although theseare not many) and make your manuscript shorter and more specific. Avoid futile references and be concise. Please consider to use an electronic appendix if you want / decide to present figures that are not part of the core of your work.
Please, be aware that some parts of your manuscript have to be re-written, reduced or re-arranged to meet publication. Please mark (i.e. red text or highlighted) all changes in the revision. Your manuscript may be sent to the previous reviewers for further checking. Please also consider citations of relevant papers published in Journal of Mountain Science in 2014-2016 if possible. Please also follow the next requirements:

1. The authors should prepare a response letter to address the reviewers' and the editor's comments point by point besides making required or suggested revisions.
2. Some manuscripts will be sent to the previous reviewers for further checking when the editors can not decide whether the authors have addressed and done all the necessary revision.
3. All authors' email addresses and Orcids should be provided in the title page4. DOIs should be added in the listed reference if that item of reference has a DOI number.
5. Funding source should be added in the Acknowledgement.
6. Figures should be in high quality.
7. Language should reach the standards to be published.

Sincerely,

Alejandro Loydi
JMS Editor