Your manuscript, "***", has now been seen by two referees, whose reports I enclose. As you will see, while both referees acknowledge that the topic of *** is important, they also raise a number of criticisms that prevent us from offering to publish the paper. Specifically, their comments suggest to us that your findings would not represent the sort of conceptual advance that would be likely to substantially influence our understanding of *** in general, which we feel would be necessary for the paper to appeal to the interests of researchers from other disciplines. We are forced to conclude, therefore, that a revised version of your manuscript would find a more suitable outlet in a specialist journal and so we will be closing the file.
I am very sorry that we cannot respond more positively, but I nevertheless hope that you will find the referees' comments of use.