This might suggest that youve submitted your article elsewhere. Avoid mistakes such as directing the cover letter to the editor (s) of a different journal, or to a different journal altogether. We find that a cover letter is particularly informative when it helps us to identify the relevant type of advances in the study. A well-written letter indicates that you take your submission seriously and that you are an author who pays attention to detail. To perform this task well, we need to place the manuscript in its appropriate context 4. I wish for the manuscript to be given a masked review. The manuscript is 40 pages long and includes four tables and two figures. Simpson, I am enclosing a submission to the Journal of Poetry and Psychology entitled Poetry and the Cognitive Psychology of Metrical Constructs. At Nature Biomedical Engineering, for research manuscripts that fit the journal’s scope we assess the degree of advance, broad implications and breadth and depth of the work. Editor, Journal of Poetry and Psychology. Authors are also requested to consult Aquaculture Volume 437, 1 Pages 344-350 for further support on statistical processing of data.
Second, help the editors understand and assess the main contributions of your work. Many journals require a cover letter to accompany your manuscript submission. Individuals that were kept during the experiment in one single tank are not independent from each other and can hence not be considered as a biological replicate.