Journal Reviewer Review

A recent paper of mine was rejected from Journal of Theoretical Biology. For fun, lets compare and contrast and selection from the reviewer comments ("MS" = "manuscript"):

From Reviewer #1:

Overall I really liked the work presented in this MS - by generalising the traditional models of the ecological economics underpinning solitary foraging behaviour the authors offer a very interesting (& in retrospect) intuitively appealing justification for accepting that the concorde fallacy may not always be fallacious.

From Reviewer #2:

This result seems to be of significance in biology, psychology, economics, and business, and I think that the paper is deserving of publication in JTB. The paper is also very well written, and the mathematical presentation is clear and precise.

Those two were pretty nice, and suggest that I should resubmit the paper with a couple tiny revisions and I'll be off and running. Great! Wait... What's this?

From Reviewer #3:

I regret to say I have no idea what this paper is about. The mathematical lingo is completely unfamiliar to me (after about 50 years of teaching and research in maths)...(details omitted)...(I recently had a grad student who wrote in this vein. When I asked him to explain in ordinary math, he gave up.) I didn't read any further. My advice is reject.

HUH?!

cleveref incompatibilities with Elsevier and Springer

elsart problems: If you try using cleveref with any of the elsart packages, you may get this error:

! TeX capacity exceeded, sorry [input stack size=5000].
\cl@part ->\cl@part 
                    \@elt {section}

This is due to a flaw in the elsart packages. They setup some part counters even though part isn't defined. This confuses cleveref. To fix this, add the following anywhere in your preamble:

\makeatletter \let\cl@part\relax \makeatother

Later, you can use cleveref's poorman option to strip all of the cleveref stuff from your document. After that, you can remove this line.

svjour problems: Similarly, if you try combining cleveref with Springer journal support files, you may get this error:

! TeX capacity exceeded, sorry [input stack size=5000].
\cl@chapter ->\cl@chapter
                          \@elt {theorem}

Again, this is due to a flaw in the Springer packages. They setup some chapter counters even though chapter isn't defined. To fix this, add the following anywhere in your preamble:

\makeatletter \let\cl@chapter\relax \makeatother

Again, this can be removed after cleveref's poorman procedure is applied.

Source and acknowledgments: The Springer solution was given by "Dan" in a comp.text.tex post. I used it to generate the elsart solution.