Investigating the Determinants of Greek Households Food Waste Prevention Behaviour

Round 1

Reviewer 1 Report

Dear Authors,
The study aims at investigating the "Investigating the Determinants of Greeks’ Food Waste Prevention Behavior". 
The paper is not satisfactory written, needs a careful editing, fonts, and style. Although the paper deals with an interesting topic, major revisions are required.  
Further, the study aim and background are not well presented, repetitions occurring in the paper should be avoided. 
It is recommended:
- Reformulate the abstract by telling prospective readers what you did and what the important findings of your research were. Don't use abbreviations in the abstract. 
- Introduction is very short and can be improved in order to show better aim.
- Please carefully consider and revise the logic of some parts. Carefully check the full text.
- What are the research questions? 
- What does the paper bring that is new to current knowledge?
- These are all questions that need to be answered.
- Please do more to highlight how the work advances or increments the field from the present state of knowledge and provide a clear justification for your work.
- Methodology is unclear and there are many gaps that make the statistical model used confusing. Methodology be supported with reference literature. 
- Results and Discussion should be rewritten. 
- The figures and tables do not make for easy reading as they are not very clear. 
- There are many figures, some of which do not make sense to put. 
- 10 figures is a lot. 
- "Appendix A. Measurement scales in the formal questionnaire" is also difficult to read.
- Conclusion section needs improvement. Please provide more quantitative key contributions of the study with proper discussions, highlight the limitations of this study and the future work. 
- English proofreading is needed. Some description is not professional for a scientific article.
- Reference is very short.
Accordingly, it is opinion of this reviewer to accept with major revisions the proposed manuscript for a publication on this journal.

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Reviewer 2 Report

General comment:

Some statistical parameters (e.g. p) should be given in italics. Please, correct it through the manuscript.

Specific comments:

-Page 1, Line 33: Apart from Abstract, you should provide again the full name of the abbreviation in the main text. Thus, write "Food loss and waste (FLW)" instead of "FLW".

-Page 3, Line 83: The legend of Figure 1 should be on the same page as the figure.

-Page 4, Lines 137-190: The citation of any study that helped you to develop your model could strengthen your research.

-Pages 4-5, Lines 160-175: Figure 2 is not well presented. A part of the Figure is hidden and another part consists only of H2...H10 abbreviations without any design. Please correct Figure 2 accordingly and present it on one page (do not split the figure into two pages).

-Page 7, Line 283: Please provide the City and the Country of origin of STATA 12 software inside parentheses.

-Pages 8-9, Line 331: Table 1 should be on one page and not split into two. Also, the different variables in Table 1 should be separated with horizontal lines to improve the presentation of the data. 

-Page 9, Line 346: Apart from composting, can you compare other responses of Greeks in your research with those of EU citizens?

-Pages 13-14, Lines 429-430: Figure 7 and its legend should be presented on one page. 

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Round 2

Reviewer 1 Report

Dear Authors,

I very much appreciate the efforts of the authors to meet my comments and suggestions and to implement the suggestions, observations and recommendations I made. The paper has improved but there are however some minor aspects that need to be still fixed and to which no answer was given.

- Don't use abbreviations in the abstract (i.e. delete WF).

Accordingly, it is opinion of this reviewer to accept with minor revisions the proposed manuscript for a publication on this journal.

 

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