ORBITA submission cover letter is the short note to the editor that goes with a manuscript: what the paper does, why it belongs in that journal, and the declaration that it is original and not under consideration elsewhere. Submission Letters drafts that letter, and the two that come after it: the resubmission letter that goes back with a revised paper, and the transfer letter when a paper moves to another journal. Each is written rather than derived, so it is handed over as a draft to edit, never as a finished document.
Your paper's title, your abstract, and the name of the journal you are submitting to. Optionally the editor's name, and anything you want mentioned, such as a related preprint or a competing interest.
A resubmission letter also needs your own list of the changes you made, and optionally the manuscript ID and decision date. A transfer letter needs the journal the paper was first submitted to, whether its editor suggested the move, and whether the first journal's reviews come with it.
Nothing else is consulted. ORBIT does not read your manuscript for this, does not look the journal up, and does not know anything about you that you have not typed into the box.
A cover letter has a standard shape that invites a language model to fill it in — with an affiliation, a funder, a grant number, a prior submission, a suggested reviewer, a claim about how significant the work is. None of that can be known from a title and an abstract, and a plausible guess in a letter to an editor is a fabrication with your name on it.
So the draft leaves a marked blank instead: [Your name], [Your affiliation], [Corresponding author email]. The page counts the blanks still left and does not stop saying so until you have filled them in.
A resubmission letter describes the changes on your list and nothing else. It will not say every reviewer comment was addressed, name a reviewer, or say a response document is attached unless your list says so. A missing manuscript ID or decision date stays a blank.
A transfer letter names the journal the paper came from, because you said so. It never says why the paper left, or whether it was rejected. It mentions the earlier reviews only if you said they come with it.
The title, abstract and list of changes are used for one request and are never stored. Neither is the letter. Your account records that a letter was drafted, which kind, for which journal, on what date, and what it cost, and nothing of what it said.
The practical consequence is yours to manage: copy the draft or download it before you close the tab, because there is nothing to come back to.
One credit. The 5 free credits a month cover it — it was purchased-credits-only until 2026-08-27, and is not any more. Additional credits are ₹150 each.
It is the short note to the editor that accompanies a manuscript. It says what the paper contributes, why it suits that journal, and confirms that the work is original and not under consideration elsewhere. Most journals require one and many desk-reject submissions that arrive without it.
A resubmission letter goes back to the same journal with a revised manuscript. It gives the manuscript ID and the decision date, thanks the editor and reviewers briefly, and summarises what changed. ORBIT writes that summary from your own list of changes only: it will not claim every comment was addressed, name a reviewer, or mention a response document unless your list does.
It is the cover letter for a paper moving from one journal to another, often after the first journal's editor suggests a better fit. It names the first journal and the earlier manuscript ID, and says whether the earlier reviews come with it. ORBIT never states why the paper left the first journal or whether it was rejected, because it was not told.
No. It is written from the title and abstract you paste, the journal name you type, and nothing else. Your manuscript file is never involved. If something in your results matters to the letter, put it in the optional notes box.
No, and this is the point of the feature. Anything it was not told — your name, affiliation, funder, grant number, prior submissions, suggested reviewers, ethics approvals — comes back as a square-bracketed blank for you to fill. The page counts the blanks that are left and keeps saying so until none remain.
No. Your account records that a letter was drafted, which kind, for which journal, on what date and what it cost — and not one word of the text. The abstract you pasted is not stored either. Copy the draft or download it before you close the tab, because there is nothing to return to.
Yes. Each letter costs one credit and the 5 free credits each month cover it. It was purchased-credits-only until 2026-08-27; that gate is gone, because a tool nobody can try is a tool nobody buys.
Yes, and you should. The draft opens in an editable box and you can rewrite any of it before copying it or downloading the .docx. ORBIT wrote those sentences rather than deriving them from a stated source, so read every line — you are the one signing it.
Yes, as an optional tick on the same draft and the same one credit. Both are written from the abstract you pasted and nothing else, under the same ban on invention as the letter. Each highlight is shown with its character count against the 85-character limit most publishers set, counted in our code rather than taken from the model — and a highlight that runs long is flagged with its count rather than cut, because cutting a sentence at 85 characters ends it mid-word. The summary is written to 150 words, the tightest limit we found a journal state; the page names that source and the looser ones, because the limit genuinely varies and you should check your own journal.
Yes. You type the journal's name, so any journal works. Note that ORBIT does not look that journal up: it does not read its aims and scope, and the letter will not claim knowledge of them.