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JOURNAL OF MICROELECTROMECHANICAL SYSTEMS, VOL. 12, NO. 3, JUNE 2003 229 Guest Editorial How to Avoid the Reviewer’s Axe: One Editor’s View Editor’s Note: Stephen D. Senturia has been a member of the that is also a minor modification of already published work. Board of Editors for IEEE/ASME JMEMS since the journal’s Along the way, some unusual behavior is observed that the mod- first issue in 1992 and was named a Senior Editor in 1998. ified model cannot explain. The authors believe that they under- This experience, coupled with his service from 1985–1995 as stand why this behavior is observed, and wish to propose their the Solid-State Sensors Editor for the IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON explanation, even though they have not yet done the definitive ELECTRON DEVICES, adds up to 17 years in an editor’s chair. experiments to prove their hypothesis. Over the years, Steve has kept mental notes on the myriad of problems that authors have with reviewers and has been inspired II. SENTURIA’S GUIDELINES to compile the following “advice to the author” about ways to keep reviewers satisfied; hence, to keep them “at bay.” How should the authors think about organizing and writing this paper? I propose a set of simple guidelines. The names are Abstract—Based on his many years of experience, a JMEMS ed- listed below, followed by some discussion in which each guide- itor provides guidelines for authors that will, if followed, greatly line is explored in depth: reduce the risk of a devastatingly negative result from the review