Author Guidelines
General Author Guidelines
We highly recommend reading our General Guidelines for Authors (.docx) document containing detailed information about requirements for submitting to our journal.
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General Guidelines for Submitting to CORR
For authors submitting to a symposium or proceedings for the first time, please see our Guidelines for Symposia and Proceedings
Authors (.docx) document for information and expectations for submitting to a symposium or proceedings.
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Guidelines for Symposia and Proceedings Authors
Generally, CORR® receives and publishes the article types below:
- Clinical Research
- Basic Research
- Systematic Reviews/Meta-analyses
- Letters to the Editor
- CORR Insights® (By Invitation Only)
Separate instructions for each article type can be found under "
Author Instructions for Submitting to CORR®." Submissions not adhering to these instructions will likely be returned without review.
***NOTE: CORR no longer publishes case reports. Please see our editorial on the matter
here.
CORR will, however, accept case series studies with minimum follow-up, formatted according to our instructions for clinical research articles.
List of Editorials that Outline CORR's Policies and Standards
CORR has prepared a number of editorials about scientific writing and writing for our journal.
Use the links below for more recommendations on preparing your submission. Links are to free full-text articles.
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Editorial: Standards of Reporting: The CONSORT, QUORUM, and STROBE Guidelines
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Editorial: Case Closed—Discontinuing Case Reports in Clinical Orthopaedics and Related Research ®
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The Complexity of Reporting Race and Ethnicity in Orthopaedic Research
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Research is a Team Sport: Updated Authorship Guidelines for CORR®
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Let's Talk About Level IV: The Bones of a Good Retrospective Case Series
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Duplicate Submission and Dual Publication: What Is So Wrong With Them?
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Reporting Statistics in Abstracts in Clinical Orthopaedics and Related Research®
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Words and Meaning in Scientific Reporting: Consecutive, Prospective, and Significant
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Active Management of Financial Conflicts of Interest on the Editorial Board of CORR®
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Fairness to All: Gender and Sex in Scientific Reporting
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When "Safe and Effective" Becomes Dangerous
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Words Hurt – Avoiding Dehumanizing Language in Orthopaedic Research and Practice
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Paying to Publish — What is Open Access and Why is it Important?
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Proceedings and Symposia in CORR®: What They Are, and Why We Publish Them
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CORR Criteria for Reporting Meta-analyses
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Estimating Survivorship in the Face of Competing Risks
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Large Database Studies — What They Can Do, What They Cannot Do, and Which Ones We Will Publish
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Measuring Satisfaction: Can It Be Done?
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JBJS, The Bone & Joint Journal, and Clinical Orthopaedics and Related Research Require Prospective Registration of Randomized Clinical Trials — Why Is This Important?
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The Minimum Clinically Important Difference — The Least We Can Do
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CORR Will Change to Double-blind Peer Review—What Took Us So Long to Get There?
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Editorial: CORR's New Peer-Reviewer Tool—Useful for More Than Peer Reviews
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How the Words We Use Affect the Care We Deliver
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ORCID is a Wonderful (But Not Required) Tool for Authors
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A New Way to Read, Write, and Review for CORR
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No-difference Studies Make a Big Difference
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Increased Manuscript Submissions Prompt Journals to Make Hard Choices
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How Does CORR Evaluate Survey Studies?
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Sparse-data Bias—What the Savvy Reader Needs to Know
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Threshold P Values in Orthopaedic Research — We Know the Problem. What is the Solution?
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Clinical Orthopaedics and Related Research, The Bone & Joint Journal,
The Journal of Orthopaedic Research, and The Journal of Bone and Joint Surgery
Will Not Accept Clinical Research Manuscripts Previously Posted to Preprint Servers
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Reporting Gene Expression Analyses in CORR®
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Beware of Studies Claiming that Social Factors are "Independently Associated" with Biological Complications of Surgery
- Summary of Existing Guidelines and Policies Not Covered in Published Editorials
- Editorial: Introducing CORR Synthesis - Review Articles with a Twist (Actually, Several Twists)
- Editorial: Opposites Attract at CORR®—Machine Learning and Qualitative Research
Where Can I Find CORR's Editorial Policies Not Covered in Published Editorials?
If there is a topic we have not covered in one of our editorials, we have created an extensive list of CORR's existing guidelines and policies that may answer your questions directly. Please see our "Summary of Existing Guidelines and Policies Not Covered in Published Editorials" document for more information.
Methodology Checklists Followed by CORR
STROBE Checklist
Observational and retrospective clinical trials
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CONSORT Checklist
Randomized trials
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PRISMA Checklist
Systematic reviews / meta-analyses
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ARRIVE Checklist
Animal research involving In vitro experiments
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