Permission for changing the title of a paper I am revising a paper and want to change the title of the paper and send for editor-in-chief.  

My Question: Is there an formal sentences to announce to editor-in-chief and reviewers that I want to change the title of paper in this revision. 

For instance, is it acceptable that I write the following text?


  With the editor-in-chief’s and reviewers’ permission, the authors want to change the title of paper because of ...
What you write seems fine. Until very late in the process, the title should, in my view, be tentative. It should best express what the paper says. Especially if recommended revisions have changed that, or your view of it, by all means change it and just let the editor know. 

If you get pushback, or refusal, from an editor, you can deal with it then. But, IMO, it would be improper to refuse.