LaTeX rebuttal/response to reviewers template
This is my LaTeX template for responding to reviewers. I have extended several macros that I found on stackexchange to allow LaTeX style cross referencing between reviewers points. Here is how it looks:
Note the circle in red which is the reference inserted with the \ref tag.
The source code
Download: rebuttal.zip
% LaTeX rebuttal letter example. % % Copyright 2019 Friedemann Zenke, fzenke.net % % Based on examples by Dirk Eddelbuettel, Fran and others from % https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/2317/latex-style-or-macro-for-detailed-response-to-referee-report % % Licensed under cc by-sa 3.0 with attribution required. \documentclass[11pt]{article} \usepackage[utf8]{inputenc} \usepackage{lipsum} % to generate some filler text \usepackage{fullpage} % import Eq and Section references from the main manuscript where needed % \usepackage{xr} % \externaldocument{manuscript} % package needed for optional arguments \usepackage{xifthen} % define counters for reviewers and their points \newcounter{reviewer} \setcounter{reviewer}{0} \newcounter{point}[reviewer] \setcounter{point}{0} % This refines the format of how the reviewer/point reference will appear. \renewcommand{\thepoint}{P\,\thereviewer.\arabic{point}} % command declarations for reviewer points and our responses \newcommand{\reviewersection}{\stepcounter{reviewer} \bigskip \hrule \section*{Reviewer \thereviewer}} \newenvironment{point} {\refstepcounter{point} \bigskip \noindent {\textbf{Reviewer~Point~\thepoint} } ---\ } {\par } \newcommand{\shortpoint}[1]{\refstepcounter{point} \bigskip \noindent {\textbf{Reviewer~Point~\thepoint} } ---~#1\par } \newenvironment{reply} {\medskip \noindent \begin{sf}\textbf{Reply}:\ } {\medskip \end{sf}} \newcommand{\shortreply}[2][]{\medskip \noindent \begin{sf}\textbf{Reply}:\ #2 \ifthenelse{\equal{#1}{}}{}{ \hfill \footnotesize (#1)}% \medskip \end{sf}} \begin{document} \section*{Response to the reviewers} % General intro text goes here We thank the reviewers for their critical assessment of our work. In the following we address their concerns point by point. % Let's start point-by-point with Reviewer 1 \reviewersection % Point one description \begin{point} \lipsum[1] \label{pt:foo} \end{point} % Our reply \begin{reply} We agree with the reviewer on this important point. This is what we did to fix it. \lipsum[2] \end{reply} \begin{point} Reviewer \thereviewer's second point. \label{pt:bar} \end{point} \begin{reply} And our reply to it. \end{reply} \subsection*{Minor} % Use the short-hand macros for one-liners. \shortpoint{ Typo in line xy. } \shortreply{ Fixed.} % Begin a new reviewer section \reviewersection \begin{point} This is the first point of Reviewer \thereviewer. With some more words foo bar foo bar ... \end{point} \begin{reply} Our reply to it with reference to one of our points above using the \LaTeX's label/ref system (see also \ref{pt:foo}). \end{reply} \end{document}