OBJECTIVE. Comments from manuscript reviews are helpful for guiding a decision about publication and also afford a source of valuable information about how to improve a manuscript. This article is a compendium of comments from reviews of AJR Neuroradiology/Head and Neck Imaging manuscripts that, collectively, serve as a guide for writing a manuscript in any field of radiology. The comments provide examples of previously published AJR guidelines for a manuscript that will have a high likelihood of being published. CONCLUSION. Reviewers devote substantial time and effort to manuscript reviews and provide them to authors at no cost. Their comments provide an important and valuable supply of instruction for authors. Those comments often reflect criteria for judging the worth of a manuscript and reflect sound principles for composing a manuscript. Authors are encouraged to avail themselves of these resources.
Keywords: comments; critique; manuscript; publish; review; reviewers' comments.