Writing for BJGP Open: practice & policy
Commentaries
These are statements of informed opinion and not short systematic reviews and can be a statement of a new idea or controversial matter, where the opinion being expressed is at least partly based on published evidence. Unlike reviews, there is no obligation for authors of these articles to be impartial in citing the available literature.
Commentaries should be up to 1200 words in length and have no more than 12 references. An abstract is not required. These articles are usually peer reviewed by at least one external reviewer.
International reports
International reports describe interesting and important clinical, health policy, and medicopolitical developments and initiatives, and are designed to highlight aspects of primary health care around the globe and to generate discussion and debate.
They should be approximately 800–1000 words in length with up to 10 references.
Open access publication
BJGP Open operates an open access publication policy for all its articles. Please see the BJGP Open editorial process & policies page for information on Open Access publishing.
Submit an article to BJGP Open
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