虽说文章能不能发表靠的还是科研价值本身，但是投稿信也是很重 要的 。在现在发表的文章越来越多，权威期刊不缺稿源的情况下，责任编辑做的是择优录用，先淘汰掉一部分感觉上价值不大的稿件 。如果投稿信没有含什么有用的信息，文章一眼看上去又没有太多吸引力，一些责任编辑就会很快做出拒稿决定 。当然用的是非常委婉的说法，拒稿信用的也是统一模板 。比如：
Thank you for submitting your manuscript, referenced below, to .
“文章标题”
We have examined your paper, and conclude that it is not suitable for this Journal. It is our consensus that a specialized journal in this area would bring your paper to the attention of a more interested audience. This is not a judgement on the technical quality of your manuscript.
Sincerely yours,
但是实际上，这篇第二天就被责任编辑拒稿的文章其实符合期刊发表的研究方向，因为有几篇相关的文章就是发表在该期刊上 。不过被拒了也就拒了，再去辩解也毫无意义 。不过好奇之下，还是去google了一下责任编辑的背景，主要是做光学的，跟文章所属的电磁方向虽然是一大类，但还是有所区别 。再回头看那个投稿信，用的就是以前的模板，只是用两句话简要介绍了一下文章的主要结果 。模板如下：
Dear editor,
We would like to submit our manuscript entitled “”, which we wish to be considered for publication in .
There are couplers of results in this paper may be found interested by the general readers.
Thank you very much for considering our manuscript for potential publication.
Best wishes.
虽然投稿信也用两句话说明了一下文章结果的价值，但是在这种责任编辑只是大同行的情况下，如果这两句话不能打动他，那么他就不一定能够认同文章的价值，就会直接作出拒稿的决定 。
所以在重新投其他的期刊的时候，就意识到原先投稿信的分量还不够，还要加上一段文字说明为啥文章适合发表在该期刊上 。上个月就有一个影响因子还不错的期刊的编辑给大家发了一个邮件，明确说明了，要是在投稿信里面没有加上这些文字，文章会被直接拒稿 。
最能反映适合程度的当然是列出自己已经在该期刊上发表的文章，然后说明这两篇文章是有相关性的 。如果没有过往记录呢，找出几篇该期刊最近2,3年发表的，被引用次数还不错的文章列举上去也是很有用的 。5年前甚至10年前的就不要列了，因为现在期刊的scope都在不断地调整中，以前的热门方向，也许现在期刊已经看不上了 。投稿信加上了这部分之后，重投了另外一个影响因子相当的期刊，文章很快被送审，很快给录用了 。虽然不一定是投稿信带来的差异，但是还是愿意在心里认为投稿信也是要用心去写的 。
不过也要记住，投稿信不要写得太长，最好在一页内把重要的东西说清楚 。写得太长，编辑也会没有耐心看的 。
有些人建议在投稿信中把推荐的审稿人也加上 。这个视情况而定，如果期刊投稿的时候本身就要求填写几个推荐的审稿人，那么就不用占用投稿信的空间了 。但是如果投稿系统没有这一项的话，那在投稿信加上会更好一些 。提供的信息可以是审稿人的头衔、姓名、地址和电子邮件 。记得多次确认一下，电子邮件是人家有效的而且是常用的 。最后，若还是不放心，可以请专业的论文润色公司如英论阁 ments from the reviewers. If you have any queries, please don't hesitate to contact me at the address below.Thank you and best regards.Yours sincerely,******Corresponding author:Name: ***E-mail： ****@****二、催稿信：询问稿件处理到声明步骤Dear Prof. ***:Sorry for disturbing you. I am not sure if it is the right time to contact you to inquire about the status of my submitted manuscript titled “Paper Title”. (ID： 文章稿号)，although the status of “With Editor” has been lasting for more than two months, since submitted to journal three months ago. I am just wondering that my manuscript has been sent to reviewers or not?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 consideration.Best regards!Yours sincerely,******Corresponding author:Name: ***E-mail： ****@****三、修改稿Cover letterDear Dr/ Prof..（写上负责你文章编辑的姓名，显得尊重，因为第一次的投稿不知道具体负责的编辑，只能用通用的Editors）:On behalf of my co-authors, we thank you very much for giving us an opportunity to revise our manuscript, we appreciate editor and reviewers very much for their positive and constructive comments and suggestions on our manuscript entitled “Paper Title”. (ID： 文章稿号).We have studied reviewer's comments carefully and have made revision which marked in red in the paper. We have tried our best to revise our manuscript according to the comments. Attached please find the revised version, which we would like to submit for your kind consideration.We would like to express our great appreciation to you and reviewers for comments on our paper. Looking forward to hearing from you.Thank you and best regards.Yours sincerely,******Corresponding author:Name: ***E-mail： ****@****四、修改稿回答审稿人的意见（最重要的部分）List of ResponsesDear Editors and Reviewers:Thank you for your letter and for the reviewers' comments concerning our manuscript entitled “Paper Title” (ID： 文章稿号). Those comments are all valuable and very helpful for revising and improving our paper, as well as the important guiding significance to our researches. We have studied comments carefully and have made correction which we hope meet with approval. Revised portion are marked in red in the paper. The main corrections in the paper and the responds to the reviewer's comments are as flowing:Responds to the reviewer's comments:Reviewer #1:1. Response to comment： （……简要列出意见……）Response: ******2. Response to comment： （……简要列出意见……）Response： ****** 。