Legal aid for representation at Mental Health Review Tribunals

Abstract

In comparison to other journals, requirements for submission of manuscripts to the British Journal of Psychiatry and Psychiatric Bulletin are sparse. The single page of instructions for submissions to the Brush Journal of Psychiatry (158,591) concerns style and format. In contrast, the BMJ provides four pages of requirements for submissions to those journals adopting the 'Vancouver style' (BMJ 1991, 302, 338-341). This includes details of the qualifi cations for authorship and the responsibility of authors for content and veracity. All authors are required to sign a covering letter acknowledging compliance with the requirements. The recent paper 'Careers in psychiatric specialities 7. Substance Misuse' (Black et al, 1991) provides