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査読を依頼された論文原稿が、Guide for Authorsに全然従ってないめちゃくちゃなフォーマットだったのでエディターにメールで文句を言った。こういうのは、エディターレベルで突き返してやり直させて欲しいものである。

This manuscript does not follow a basic format for this journal. Especially, the citation manner is wrong (should be numbered in the order of appearance, rather than the aurhot's name/year system). Furthermore, all the line of the manuscript text should be numbered throughout. This is particularly important to make reviewer's comment informative and clear. I have already checked the manuscript content and am ready to build reviewer's report. But can I (or could you) ask the authors to reformat the manuscript to follow strictly to the journal's guideline, which, I think, is a minimum obligation to be reviewed?