Getting Started and a Reviewing Template

This chapter presents a Peer Review Template to help guide the reader through a repeatable process for executing a review and writing a peer review report. We also offer some recommendations for getting started on your review, outline suggestions about the content of the initial part of the review, provide our own processes and comment on our own review styles, and then introduce a checklist for the types of issues to consider in detailing the minor points of concern. This chapter also lays out the way the content of next five chapters in the book is presented. Chapters 6-10 dig into each of the major sections of manuscripts - Introduction, Theory and Literature Review, Method, Results and Discussion, and Implications. Using examples of both a qualitative and a quantitative paper, we provide guidance regarding what to look for in each section of the paper as well as hypothetical reviews from two reviewers on each section of each paper.