The BMJ (British Medical Journal) conforms in most respects to the Vancouver style, however its advice to contributors is as follows: Go to the BMJ guidelines for authors - http://bmj.bmjjournals.com/advice/stylebook/basics.shtml
Examples of BMJ style
Use English spellings for place names: Lyons, not Lyon; see Whitaker's Almanac or Times Gazeteer We allow minimum use of abbreviations because they're hard to read and often the same abbreviation means different things in different specialities and contexts.
Technical terms Drugs should be referred to by their approved non-proprietary names, and the source of any new or experimental preparations should be given. Scientific measurements should be given in SI units, except for blood pressure which should be expressed in mm Hg. Numbers under 10 are spelt out, except for measurements with a unit (8mmol/l) or age (6 weeks old), or when in a list with other numbers (14 dogs, 12 cats, 9 gerbils). Raw numbers should be given alongside percentages, and as supporting data for p values.
Proof corrections These should be kept to a minimum and should be clear and consistent. If you need to justify corrections to the proofs, please do so in a covering letter, not on the proof.
References Authors must verify references against the original documents before submitting the article. These should be numbered in the order in which they appear in the text. At the end of the article the full list of references should follow the Vancouver style. Please give the names and initials of all authors (unless there are more than six, when only the first six should be given followed by et al). The authors' names are followed by the title of the article; the title of the journal abbreviated according to the style of Index Medicus; the year of publication; the volume number; and the first and last page numbers. References to books should give the names of any editors, place of publication, editor, and year. Examples: 21 Soter A, Wasserman SI, Austen KF. Cold urticaria: release into the circulation of histamine and eosinophil chemotactic factor of anaphylaxis during cold challenge. N Engl J Med 1976;294:687-90 22 Osler AG. Complement: mechanisms and functions. Englewood Cliffs: Prentice-Hall, 1976. Information from manuscripts not yet in press, papers reported at meetings, or personal communications should be cited only in the text, not as a formal reference. Authors should get permission from the source to cite personal communications.
Electronic citations You may know of other websites that will interest people reading your article. If you know the web addresses (URLs) of those sites, please include them in the relevant places in the text of your article. If we accept your article we will insert hotlinks in the electronic version so that people using bmj.com can jump directly from your article to those related sites.
Illustrations and photographs Please try to provide informative and relevant photographs, figures, or other illustrations when you're submitting articles to the BMJ. If you cannot provide pictures with your article, perhaps you can suggest some for our picture editor to find. You must seek the patient's written consent to publication in the BMJ if there is any chance that he or she may be identified from a picture, from its legend or other accompanying text. Patients are almost always willing to give such consent. We no longer publish pictures with black bands across the eyes because bands fail to mask someone's identity effectively.
Tables Tables should be simple and should not duplicate information in the text of the paper. Illustrations should be used only when data cannot be expressed clearly in any other way. When graphs, scattergrams, or histograms are submitted the numerical data on which they are based should be supplied; in general, data given in histograms will be converted into tabular form. For tables, Benchpress also accepts most common word processing formats. It cannot, however, handle tables produced using: OLE (Object Linking and Embedding) technology to display information or embed files, Bitmap (.bmp), PICT (.pict), Excel (.xls), Photoshop (.psd), Canvas (.cnv), CorelDRAW (.cdr) and locked or encrypted PDFs. Nor can Benchpress cope with multi-page PowerPoint files (.ppt); it will only accept one slide per file.
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