When the BMJ accepts a paper provisionally and asks the authors to revise it, a technical editor completes a checklist covering any points of house style that need attention. The checklist below is for original research papers: slightly different checklists are used for other types of article: 

When returning your paper after revision please supply the information requested below.

• Source of funding
• Summary of 150 words for "This Week in BMJ"
• Structured abstract of 250 words
• Key messages box
• Opening summary of 75-100 words
• Address for each author and one position held at time of study
• Author for correspondence
• Abbreviations should not be used and should be spelt out in full each time
• Actual numbers of patients or subjects, as well as percentages, within the text and tables
• All values in SI units (except blood pressure in mm Hg)
• The numbers from which histograms were drawn. If these are percentages please also provide the actual numbers. (We generally convert histograms into tables, but even if we leave them as histograms the data from which they were drawn are helpful.)
• This article is too long as a short report. Please reduce it to within 600 words with one table or figure and at most five references
• Double spacing (not 1.5 spacing) for text and references; margins 3 cm or wider
• References must be set out in Vancouver style (see Uniform requirements for manuscripts submitted to biomedical journals. International Committee of Medical Journal Editors. Med Educ. 1999; 33(1):66-78):
  • surnames and initials of all authors (or of only the first six)
  • title of the article or chapters
  • page numbers of each article or chapter
  • editors of books
  • publisher of each book
  • place of publication of books
  • year of publication of books
  • title of the journal in full
  • volume number of the journal
  • has the reference been published or accepted for publication? If not please cite in text and renumber other references