Changes to letters in Thorax
- 1Letter Editor, Thorax Editorial Office
- 2Editor-in-Chief, Thorax Editorial Office
- Correspondence to:
Dr J R Hurst
Thorax Editorial Office, BMJ Publishing Group, London WC1H 9JR, UK
Updated guidelines for authors of letters to Thorax
Here at Thorax we believe that letters are the life blood of a journal. Correspondence in response to published articles provides comment and alternative interpretations of data that promote debate, may be unexpected, and add value to the original work. Readers may also take the opportunity to present complementary research findings in such a letter. Moreover, we also publish research letters in Thorax and these are a useful method to present original and important data, or interesting observations that are too limited in scope to require a complete paper. All our letters are cited in PubMed and linked to the original paper.
We wish to encourage you to submit more letters, to …
