Paper review

[wspr]

https://github.com/openjournals/joss-reviews/issues/506

I'm really impressed by the breadth and ease-of-installation of this comprehensive Matlab toolbox. Thanks for the great effort!

For the text of the paper, I have minor tidbits to suggestion improvements; let me know if anything is unclear:

• Possible repetition: (but okay if you want to keep it for emphasis)

  an open-source MATLAB® toolbox providing a single open-source framework

• Missing comma:

  ‘Using GIBBON geometry’ → ‘Using GIBBON, geometry’

• Missing space:

  continuum mechanics[@Moerman2017a]

• Perhaps word improvement:

  ‘However, several CAD style commands have also been implemented in GIBBON’ → ‘In addition, for generating simple geometries within MATLAB, GIBBON also provides several CAD-style commands’

• Typo: ‘smoothening’

• Can be simplified:

  ‘Lattice structures: Various lattice structure tools have been implemented.’ → could be just, e.g., ‘Lattice structure tools:’. Or if the opening sentence is kept, use it to explain what contexts the lattice structure tools are used in.

• FEBio:

  • GIBBON interfaces with the free software [FEBio](http://febio.org/) [@Maas2012] for FEA — should probably spell out FEA here.

  • GIBBON can be used as a pre- and post- processor for FEA — or for FEBio?

  • it enables the code based development → ‘ it enables code-based development’

• Visualization — this dot point is inconsistent with the rest; should have a colon and no newline.

• Nested references end up having double parentheses; not sure if I'd prefer dropping the outer ones? I understand this probably isn't quite as flexible as a standard LaTeX workflow :)

  ([@Cooney2015] [@Takaza2013])

• ‘National Institute of Health (R01EB024531-01) presently’ — start with "and" as it's the last in the list.

[Kevin-Mattheus-Moerman]

Thanks! I addressed these points just now in 33ec984