When I use a word . . . The ICMJE requirements and recommendations

The Vancouver DeclarationIn January 1978, the late Edward Huth, then editor of the Annals of Internal Medicine,1 and Stephen Lock, editor of the British Medical Journal, as it was known at that time, now The BMJ, proposed organising a meeting of editors of influential medical journals to discuss a standard format for citing references. Huth and Case have given a detailed account of the history of the event.2 In all, 19 journals were represented at the meeting, and the committee of 11 included editors from the Annals of Internal Medicine, The BMJ, The Journal of the American Medical Association, The Lancet, The New England Journal of Medicine, and other leading biomedical journals.The report that emerged, the Declaration of Vancouver,3 named after the city in which the meeting had been held, was published in the British Medical Journal in May 19784 and elsewhere later.56 It included a description of the editors’…
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