FROM : Perceived Helpfulness of Formal and Informal Supports among Collegiate Survivors of Intimate Partner Violence

Reviewer comment’s -1

Thanks. We corrected all the spacing issues We provided detailed suggestions for future research.

Reviewer comment’s -2

Page 4, paragraph 1, line 2-3: Consider rewriting this sentence to make it flow better with the rest of the paragraph. It reads a bit clunky at the moment.

We edited it for it to flow a little more smoothly. Still, we are open to any other suggestions of yours.

When writing help-seeking, sometimes there is a hyphen between the words, and sometimes there isn’t. Either one is correct but choose one and be consistent throughout the manuscript.

It was our oversight. We corrected them, all using a hyphen.

Page 5, paragraph 2, last sentence: Could you add a sentence or two that expands on this? Why might women of Color have lower expectations of the legal system?

We added a phrase to explain it.

Page 10 demographic characteristics: Can you explain why you included being transgender in two different variables? Rather than having one for gender and one for sexual orientation?

The US census question sets were used for demographic questions. We listed it as a limitation in the original submission.

Page 13, paragraph 1, line 5: The inclusion of police and religious officials does not really fit here since they are formal help-seeking institutions.

Police was mistakenly listed there and now removed. We explained in our response to an earlier comment why we treated religious officials as informal.

Page 14, paragraph 1, line 8-13: This paragraph is a little long. Creating a section within the discussion for implications may be a good idea.

To make it easier to read and follow, we split this paragraph into two, one for police and another for medical care.

Page 15, paragraph 1, line 2: Check APA 7 standards for citations with three or more authors.

We corrected them according to APA.