我的这篇文章从写，到投，再到改投，催稿……，小修，悲剧，申诉，最后戏剧化被接收，整个过程可谓是一波三折！文章初稿最初是3月中旬投到Journal of Industrial Microbiology & Biotechnology杂志，一个月后悲剧了，编辑也没提什么意见，一封模板化的拒稿信，没有啥收获。后来分析了下，感觉还主要还是创新性不明显，语言的问题也蛮多，老板建议我改投ABAB杂志。我花了两周的时间补充了些数据，找老板帮我修了语言的问题，自己检查了好几篇，最后投到ABAB。这个杂志每年的收稿量非常大，我今年5月3号投稿，我的稿号就是3437了，因此处理速度比较慢，光在编辑手上就是1个多月，然后才送出去，6月18号第一次出现under review状态。在9月份催过一次稿，10月份催过一次，11份的时候都想撤稿了，当时很矛盾，还是写了一封催稿信，如下
Dear Editor:

Please excuse me for taking some of your time.
I submitted a manuscript entitled “xxxxxx” (Ref. No. ABAB-3437) to ABAB on 3 May 2011. I do not know whether it is a proper time to contact you regarding the review process, although the status of "Under Review" for my manuscript have been lasting for more than five months. I would be greatly appreciated if you could spend some of your time check the status for us. I am very pleased to hear from you on the reviewer’s comments.

Thank you very much for your time and consideration.
Best regards!
Sincerely yours,
xxx
Corresponding authorE-mail: xxxxxx
结果和其他两封催稿信一样石沉大海，杳无音信，好在自己投到其他杂志的另外一篇文章接受了，自己的压力小一些了，也就没怎么关注这篇文章（之前是每隔几天看一次文章状态），12月4号，终于等来了一审的结果。两个审稿人的意见都是小修后接受，第一个审稿人提了六个问题，第二个审稿人要求重画一下载体图，补充两个小实验，编辑给的建议是accepted with minor revision。给了3周时间修改，返回期限是12月25号。

我按照审稿人的意见仔细的修改了文章的语言，回答了所有的问题，补充了实验，于12月21号返回了修改稿。12月24号中午，收到Decision letter，竟然拒稿了，当时感觉蛮奇怪的，下午我就在小木虫上发了一个求助帖（http://muchong.com/bbs/viewthread.php?tid=3980163&page=1），希望大家给我提些建议，要不要申诉！

我和我老板商量了一下该怎么办，我老板建议我改投，但是我有点不心甘，毕竟等待了7个多月才收到一审意见，就这样放弃，太可惜了！在看了很多虫友的回帖后，我鼓起勇气，给责任编辑写了一封申诉信，大概内容如下：
Dear xxx,

Thanks for your letter in response to our previous submission of our manuscript (ABAB-3437). After having carefully read your letter, I feel little bit confused as your decision. The two reviewers and you previously suggested that our manuscript (ABAB-3437) could be accepted for publication should we be prepared to incorporate minor revisions. We had revised our manuscript carefully and complemented some experiments raised by the reviewers. The rejected decision of the Editorial Board might be because that we did not answer some of the reviewers’ comments clearly. We carefully considered the reviewers’ comments again and have further modified the manuscript according to your letters. In addition, we have consulted a professional language editing services to check the English.

We believe our manuscript (ABAB-3437) is potentially publishable for the following reasons. First, this work presents interesting results on  XXXXXXXXXX(省略……）

We understand that the misunderstanding might be caused by the unclear description in our manuscript, but we believe that the results are of merit and the paper is potentially publishable in the journal. Therefore, we would be most grateful if you could re-consider our work and give us a second opportunity. Thank you very much for your patience and understanding. Looking forward to hearing from you,
With best regards,
Yours sincerely,

xxx and xxx
通讯作者E-mail:xxx
通讯作者单位：xxx

尽管我今年8月份有一次申诉成功的例子，但是这次不知道还会不会那么的幸运了，不管结果如何都得坦然面对吧！！！
今天上午，老板很高兴的通知我：编辑给我们回信了，我的文章救活了，刚刚接收了，原来是编辑一时疏忽给弄错了，下面是编辑的回信，
Dear Dr. xxx,

Thank you for e-mail.
I found that I made mistake on your manuscript.
Your manuscript is acceptable and we will accept your manuscript.
(Hi, Aironne, could you fix my mistake?)
I am sorry for this matter.

Best Regards,
xxxxx
Associate Editor, xxx

编辑还是比较诚实和厚道的，自己错了就主动承认，这一点值得我辈学习，不知道括号里面那句话是什么意思？！估计是开玩笑的吧！不过，总算是有惊无险。
圣诞节前拒稿的人很多，有些编辑为了过好圣诞节，所以会在节前将手上的稿件尽量处理掉，任务多、时间紧，拒错稿件的概率还是有的，我就是不幸“中招”的人之一。希望各位虫友以后遇到拒稿的情况，先不必惊慌，冷静的思考一下原因，多和老师、同学以及网友交流，看看是否值得申诉，申诉成功的例子其实还是有不少的，但申诉关键是要有理有据，另外说话尽量还是要客气一点，申诉成功了，不要忘记给编辑发送e-mail，感谢一下，其实做编辑有时也是蛮辛苦的，大家不妨换位思考一下！最后祝愿所有的虫友在新的一年实验顺利，多出好文章！

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