R&R Revision & Response Letter (jibs-rebuttal)

When to trigger

• You received a JIBS major/minor revision and need a plan plus a response letter
• Reviewers asked for measurement-invariance, CMV, or endogeneity work and you must execute it
• A reviewer invoked a specific "From the Editors" methods editorial
• You need to reconcile conflicting reviewer requests across IB subfields

Revise the manuscript before you write the letter

A JIBS response letter documents revisions that already exist; do not promise work you have not done. JIBS R&Rs are substantive and multi-round — budget real new analysis (a new estimator, an invariance test, an instrument), not just rhetoric.

Prioritize by the area editor's letter

The area editor's letter is the priority map. Group reviewer comments under the editor's integrated themes; lead your plan with the concerns the editor elevated (typically: phenomenon/contribution, cross-national measurement, CMV, and endogeneity). Where two reviewers conflict, adjudicate transparently and defer to the editor's framing.

Execute the IB-specific revision work