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rof-rebuttal
GitHub用于撰写金融顶刊RoF修改重投（R&R）回复信及修订计划。针对两轮制与60页限制，指导区分主要关切与建议，按贡献、识别等顺序回应，提供点对点回复模板及常见审稿意见应对策略，确保决议性回应并规范代码数据更新。
Trigger Scenarios
收到RoF R&R或首轮决定及审稿报告
需要安排修订顺序并起草逐点回复
第二轮出现新关切需判断处理策略
Install
npx skills add brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills --skill rof-rebuttal -g -y
SKILL.md
Frontmatter
{
"name": "rof-rebuttal",
"description": "Use when drafting a Review of Finance response letter and revision plan after an R&R, especially under the two-round philosophy, top-three-finance standards, code\/data conditions, and page-cap constraints."
}
Review of Finance Rebuttal
Use this after an RoF decision letter. Because RoF aims to reach a final decision by the second round, the first revision is your one real chance — make the round-one response decisive rather than holding arguments back.
When to trigger
- An RoF R&R or first-round decision with referee reports has arrived.
- You need to sequence revisions and draft a point-by-point response.
- A second-round report raises a new concern and you must decide how to handle it.
Response strategy
- Separate the referees' major concerns required for publication from their suggestions, mirroring the two-bucket structure RoF asks referees to use; resolve every major concern fully before polishing suggestions.
- Answer the finance contribution first, then identification, theory, data, robustness, and exposition.
- Show, don't assert: point each response to the exact revised table, figure, section, and page; quote short new text.
- Keep the revised manuscript within the hard 60-page total cap (appendices, bibliography, figures, tables all count).
- If a new referee concern appears in round two, check whether it was raised in round one and whether it is tied to your changes; under RoF's two-round philosophy a genuinely new, unrelated concern may fall outside scope — raise this politely, via the editor, and rarely.
- Authors own the paper: you may decline a suggestion that would harm it, with reasons.
- Update replication programs, pseudo-data, logs, and the Data Availability Statement alongside manuscript revisions.
Point-by-point skeleton
Referee 1, Major Concern 1 (identification):
Restate: <one-sentence neutral paraphrase>
Action: <new Table 4 cols 3-5; revised Section 5.2, pp. 18-20>
Result: <coefficient now X (s.e. Y); conclusion unchanged or sharpened>
Text: "<at most two quoted sentences of new manuscript text>"
Referee 1, Suggestion 1: adopted / adapted because ... / declined because ...
Editor letter (1 page): each major concern -> its fix; page-cap accounting
(what moved to the internet appendix); code, pseudo-data, and DAS updates
shipped with this revision.
Triage table for common RoF report lines
| The report says | Likely intent | Round-one response |
|---|---|---|
| "Identification is not convincing" (major) | spine doubt | new design evidence — pre-trends, placebo, alternative estimator — not prose |
| "The magnitude seems implausible" | calibration doubt | benchmark against two published estimates; reconcile or correct |
| "Please also examine X, Y, and Z" (suggestion) | breadth wish | run the cheap ones into the internet appendix; decline scope creep with reasons |
| "The authors should cite [their papers]" | citation nudge | cite when genuinely relevant given RoF's author-responsibility norm; otherwise draw the boundary politely |
| "The European sample limits generality" | external validity | add the US or cross-region contrast, or argue why the institution isolates a universal force |
Worked example — page-cap arithmetic in the revision
Illustrative. The R&R asks for three robustness exercises and a heterogeneity split. Four new tables at roughly 0.8 pages each plus notes cost about 3.5 pages against the hard 60-page ceiling. The plan: one new body table answering the bucket-1 concern; three exhibits to the internet appendix with one-line pointers; 1.5 pages of introduction trimmed — net +0.3 pages. State this accounting in the editor letter so the cap is visibly respected without burying the new evidence.
Resubmission hygiene
- Refresh the double-blind scrub: new acknowledgements, conference thanks, or repository links added during revision are classic anonymity leaks at this journal.
- If results changed materially, regenerate logs and the pseudo-dataset so the package matches the revised exhibits — a stale packet undermines the response letter.
- Verify current resubmission mechanics and any fees on Editorial Express and the journal's current author guidelines before uploading.
Anti-patterns
- Treating suggestions as binding while under-addressing a major concern.
- Drafting the letter before the revised manuscript exists.
- Saving a key result or argument for round two — it may simply be ignored.
- Defensive, adjective-heavy pushback instead of new evidence.
Output format
[Decision] R&R / reject-resubmit / conditional acceptance / other
[Revision thesis] <one sentence>
[Required concerns] <issue -> manuscript change>
[Suggestions] <accept, partially address, or explain>
[Code/data updates] <needed or complete>
Version History
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