BMJ Case Reports

I can confidently say I will never resubmit here. They had a ton of make work requirements prior to submission and were entirely inflexible on these requests. After 4 updates to for their requirements the requests kept coming so we dropped it and moved onto another journal

Prior to any sort of editorial review, our manuscript was unsubmitted for the following reasons: - it wasn't submitted on a specific template - references listed 6 authors before the "et al." as opposed to 3 - references in the text were superscript instead of in square brackets - figures with subparts (e.g., Fig 1a, 1b, etc.) weren't combined into single figures. When we inquired whether these time-consuming changes could be made following editorial review, we were told they were "sad to say" these changes needed to be addressed in advance. (At which point, they also added a couple other issues to the list: consent form wasn't a specific template, contributorship statement wasn't formatted specifically.) Extremely frustrating experience.