The phrase "the previous submission" is grammatically correct and can be used in written English.
It is typically used to refer to a submission that was made earlier or before the current one being discussed. Example: According to the professor's feedback on the previous submission, I need to revise my thesis statement for this next essay.
If any required information has been previously submitted to PBGC, a filer may incorporate this information into the required submission by referring to the previous submission.
The Word or PDF document must include three headings, listed below, even if a particular section had no changes from the previous submission.
If the authors ask the editors to consider the previous reviews, they should include a note explaining the relationship between the submitted manuscript and the previous submission and (assuming it has been revised in light of the referees' criticisms) giving a point-by-point response to the referees.
Otherwise, it reverts back to the previous submission.
The user submitting the related story can then choose to submit it anyway, or add it as a related item to the previous submission.
In regards to the novelty issue, perhaps we obscured some of the novelty for this reviewer in the previous submission.
Multiple tissues were examined from the hatchling alligator, and lesions differed from the previous submissions on the basis of cellular composition of the inflammatory cell infiltrates.
If a paper has been submitted for publication elsewhere, the authors must provide details of that previous submission.
With respect to this last point, it is worth recognizing that we did in fact perform a statistical analysis (included in the main manuscript with our previous submission) comparing decoding accuracies in the mean-based plan-epoch across pairwise comparisons within each region.
Reviewer #2: The authors have revised their previous submission to now include new experimental data on the mtDNA bottleneck, as requested in an earlier round of review.
We recognize that we did not adequately explain/emphasize the importance of the passive tail model with our previous submission.
