Author Guidelines
Equality, Diversity and Inclusion
Colorectal Disease aims to foster inclusive research that reflects the disciplinary, human, and geographic diversity of scientists, clinicians and other health professionals working in this area. Submissions are welcomed from authors of all ethnicities, races, colours, religions, sexes, sexual orientations, gender identities, national origins, disabilities, ages, or other individual status.
Free format submission
Colorectal Disease now offers free format submission for a simplified and streamlined submission process. Before you submit, you will need:
Your manuscript: this can be a single file including text, figures, and tables, or separate files – whichever you prefer. All required sections should be contained in your manuscript, including abstract, introduction, methods, results, and conclusions. Figures and tables should have legends. References may be submitted in any style or format, as long as it is consistent throughout the manuscript. If the manuscript, figures or tables are difficult for you to read, they will also be difficult for the editors and reviewers. If your manuscript is difficult to read, the editorial office may send it back to you for revision.
The title page of the manuscript, including statements relating to our ethics and integrity policies:
funding statement
conflict of interest disclosure
ethics approval statement
patient consent statement
permission to reproduce material from other sources
clinical trial registration
(Why do we need this? We need to uphold rigorous ethical standards for the research we consider for publication.)
Your co-author details, including affiliation and email address. (Why do we need this? We need to keep all co-authors informed of the outcome of the peer review process.)
An ORCID ID, freely available at https://orcid.org. (Why do we need this? Your article, if accepted and published, will be attached to your ORCID profile. Institutions and funders are increasingly requiring authors to have ORCID IDs.)
To submit, login at https://mc.manuscriptcentral.com/cdi and create a new submission. Follow the submission steps as required and submit the manuscript.
If you are invited to revise your manuscript after peer review, the journal will also request the revised manuscript to be formatted according to journal requirements as described below.
1. SUBMISSION AND PEER REVIEW PROCESS
2. ARTICLE TYPES
3. AFTER ACCEPTANCE
4. OTHER GUIDANCE
1. SUBMISSION AND PEER REVIEW PROCESS
Papers should be submitted electronically via the journal’s ScholarOne Manuscripts website at http://mc.manuscriptcentral.com/cdi. If you need any assistance or guidance with the submission process, please contact the Editorial Office by email to colorectaldisease@wiley.com.
Text files should be in an editable format such as Microsoft Word (not PDF). The text file should include legends and tables, but figures should be supplied separately in a native image format such as TIFF or JPG.
At the time of submission an authorship declaration form (Word version, PDF version) must be uploaded, containing the handwritten signature of the corresponding author on behalf of all named authors (a scanned document is acceptable), and confirming that:
all named authors agree to the submission of the paper to Colorectal Disease;
all authors who qualify for authorship under the criteria listed in the section Authorship and contributions below have been named on the paper;
the paper is not currently under review by another journal; and
the paper has not been accepted for publication elsewhere.
During the submission process the submitting author will also be asked to supply the names and current email addresses of all authors named on the paper, who will be notified by the editorial office that the manuscript has been submitted. For Video Correspondence there is a limit of six authors.
Submitted papers will be assessed by the Editors and may then be sent to two or more expert external peer reviewers. Statistics will be analysed by a statistician. Other experts may be invited to comment where appropriate. The median time to first decision after peer review is about 30 days. Around 30% of submissions are rejected without peer review and sent back to the authors within one week.
Colorectal Disease requires the submitting author (only) to provide an ORCID iD when submitting a manuscript
In cases where authors wish to change their name following publication, Wiley will update and republish the paper and redeliver the updated metadata to indexing services. Our editorial and production teams will use discretion in recognizing that name changes may be of a sensitive and private nature for various reasons including (but not limited to) alignment with gender identity, or as a result of marriage, divorce, or religious conversion. Accordingly, to protect the author’s privacy, we will not publish a correction notice to the paper, and we will not notify co-authors of the change. Authors should contact the journal’s Editorial Office with their name change request.
In accordance with Wiley’s Best Practice Guidelines on Research Integrity and Publishing Ethics and the Committee on Publication Ethics’ guidance, the journal will allow authors to correct authorship on a submitted, accepted, or published article if a valid reason exists to do so. All authors – including those to be added or removed – must agree to any proposed change. To request a change to the author list, please complete the Request for Changes to a Journal Article Author List Form and contact either the journal’s editorial or production office, depending on the status of the article. Authorship changes will not be considered without a fully completed Author Change form. (Correcting the authorship is different from changing an author’s name; the relevant policy for that can be found in Wiley’s Best Practice Guidelines under “Author name changes after publication.”)
2. ARTICLE TYPES
The journal publishes original articles, systematic reviews with/without meta-analyses, technical notes, and letters.
The journal does not publish animal studies nor case reports. Authors of case reports are encouraged to submit to Wiley’s open access journal Clinical Case Reports. Authors who wish to submit a series of cases to Colorectal Disease, combining them with a review of the literature, should submit this as a full systematic review, adhering to the guidelines for systematic reviews given below.
All manuscripts, regardless of article type, should start with a title page, containing:
the title of the article;
the initials, names and qualifications of each author;
the main appointment of each author;
the name(s) of the institution(s) of each author;
the name and email address of the corresponding author;
full disclosures of potential conflicts of interest on the part of any named author, or a statement confirming that there are no conflicts of interest;
the word count excluding abstract, references, tables, figures and legends.
Review Articles
Review Articles should not exceed 3000 words (excluding abstract, references, tables, figures and legends) and four illustrations.
Reviews should be systematic reviews and/or meta-analyses on interventions, epidemiology and diagnostics. Authors should refer to the AMSTAR2 checklist when performing a systematic review. Systematic reviews should have been prospectively registered in the PROSPERO database. Prospective authors are also strongly encouraged to follow the guidance in the following article:
Wille-Jørgensen, P. and Renehan, A. G. (2008), Systematic reviews and meta-analyses in coloproctology: interpretation and potential pitfalls. Colorectal Disease, 10: 21–32. doi: 10.1111/j.1463-1318.2007.01421.x
Systematic reviews should be organised as follows:
Abstract of no more than 250 words, structured as follows:
Aim: What was the background to the study? What was the aim of this study?
Method: A brief description of the methods used. What was the search strategy? What were the selection criteria? How were data collected and analysed?
Results: What were the main findings?
Conclusion: What are the main conclusions or implications of the study?
Statement not exceeding 50 words, headed 'What does this paper add to the literature?', and explaining the significance of the paper. The purpose of the statement is to explain the significance and relevance of the findings of the manuscript to a broad readership, from undergraduate students to research scientists. Suggested content for the statement includes: why a problem/unanswered question was important to address; what has been shown/what does the manuscript do to fill a gap in our knowledge; what it means to the field as a whole.
Introduction: Background, Aim
Methods: Study design and participants, systematic literature search (not only in the English language), primary and secondary outcomes, data extraction, data synthesis (e.g. type of meta-analysis)
Results: description of included and excluded studies (trials flow diagram), quality assessment of included studies, primary and secondary outcomes, sensitivity analysis
Discussion: implications for practice and further research
Acknowledgements
References, in Vancouver style (see under References below)
Tables and figures, including legends
Original Articles
Original Articles should not exceed 3000 words (excluding abstract, references, tables, figures and legends) and four illustrations.
Original Articles should be organised as follows:
Abstract of no more than 250 words, structured as follows:
Aim: What was the purpose of the study?
Method: A brief description of the materials - patients or subjects (i.e. healthy volunteers) or materials - and methods used
Results: What were the main findings?
Conclusion: What are the main conclusions or implications of the study?
Statement not exceeding 50 words, headed 'What does this paper add to the literature?', and explaining the significance of the paper. The purpose of the statement is to explain the significance and relevance of the findings of the manuscript to a broad readership, from undergraduate students to research scientists. Suggested content for the statement includes: why a problem/unanswered question was important to address; what has been shown/what does the manuscript do to fill a gap in our knowledge; what it means to the field as a whole.
Introduction
Method
Results
Discussion and conclusions
Acknowledgements
References, in Vancouver style (see under References below)
Tables and figures, including legends
Randomised Controlled Trials (RCTs)
These should have been registered in a public registry of controlled trials before submission to the journal. The trial registration number must be cited in the manuscript. Manuscripts reporting RCTs must also follow the CONSORT statement and will not be considered for publication without a completed CONSORT checklist and flowchart. They should be structured and formatted in all other respects as regular Original Articles (see above).
Research Articles
Research articles reporting observational studies should follow the STROBE statement and will not be considered for publication without a completed STROBE checklist. They should be structured and formatted in all other respects as regular Original Articles (see above).
Study Protocols
These should not exceed 4000 words (excluding abstract, references, tables, figures and legends) and four illustrations. They should comply with and follow the structure of the SPIRIT guidelines, and a SPIRIT checklist should be uploaded at submission.
Opinion
These express the authors’ opinion on a particular topic. They should include an unstructured abstract of no more than 250 words summarising the article. Please note that the journal no longer publishes Special Artices or Narrative Reviews.
Technical Notes
Technical Notes should not exceed 1200 words and contain no more than 15 references and up to four illustrations.
Technical Notes should be organised as follows:
Abstract of no more than 250 words, structured as follows:
Aim: What was the purpose of the study?
Method: A brief description of the materials - patients or subjects (i.e. healthy volunteers) or materials - and methods used.
Results: What were the main findings?
Conclusion: What are the main conclusions or implications of the study?
Indications
Method
Comparison with other methods, advantages and disadvantages, difficulties and complications.
Results
Conclusion
References, in Vancouver style (see under 'References' below)
Acknowledgements
Tables and figures, including legends
Authors of Technical Notes are expected to submit videos to accompany their article. The video should be a maximum of ten minutes in duration and the accompanying manuscript should not exceed 1200 words and contain no more than 15 references. For more guidance see under Videos below.
Correspondence
Correspondence is welcomed under the following categories:
A response to a published paper, with a maximum word limit of 500 words, and up to five references. In this case the Editor may refer the comment to the authors of the published paper for a reply. The correspondence and the authors' reply will subsequently be published together;
A standalone letter, not relating to a published paper, with a maximum word limit of 500 words, and up to five references;
A standalone video correspondence, describing a surgical technique or interesting case encountered by the authors. The video should be no longer than 10 minutes in duration with a maximum file size of 350Mb. A short description of the video, written as an item of Correspondence, containing ‘Video Correspondence’ in the title, and not exceeding 250 words in length, must be submitted with the video. For more guidance see under Videos below. For Video Correspondence there is a limit of six authors.
3. AFTER ACCEPTANCE
All accepted articles are technically edited by one of the Editors. On completion of the technical editing, the article will be sent to the production department and published online as a fully citable Accepted Article within about one week.
For any queries relating to accepted papers once they have been sent to the production department, please contact the Production Editor at codi@wiley.com.
Pre-print publication via Accepted Articles
Accepted Articles are peer reviewed, accepted articles which are published online as and when they are ready, prior to their ultimate inclusion in an online issue and without having been copy-edited. This service has been designed to ensure the earliest possible circulation of research papers immediately after acceptance. Readers should note that articles published within Accepted Articles have been fully refereed, but have not been through the copy-editing and proof correction process. Wiley-Blackwell cannot be held responsible for errors or consequences arising from the use of information contained in these articles; nor do the views and opinions expressed necessarily reflect those of Wiley-Blackwell. Accepted Articles are fully citable and can be referenced using the Digital Object Identifier (DOI) number provided. In due course articles, once fully copy-edited and will published in a regular journal issue.
Proofs
Authors will receive an e-mail notification with a link and instructions for accessing HTML page proofs online. Page proofs should be carefully proofread for any copyediting or typesetting errors. Online guidelines are provided within the system. No special software is required, most common browsers are supported. Authors should also make sure that any renumbered tables, figures, or references match text citations and that figure legends correspond with text citations and actual figures. Proofs must be returned within 48 hours of receipt of the email. Return of proofs via e-mail is possible in the event that the online system cannot be used or accessed.
Licensing and Open Access
If your paper is accepted, the author identified as the formal corresponding author for the paper will receive an email prompting them to login into Author Services; where via the Wiley Author Licensing Service (WALS) they will be able to complete the licence agreement on behalf of all authors on the paper.
If the Open Access option is not selected the corresponding author will be presented with the copyright transfer agreement (CTA) to sign.
If the Open Access option is selected the corresponding author will have a choice of the following Creative Commons License Open Access Agreements (OAA):
Creative Commons Attribution License OAA
Creative Commons Attribution Non-Commercial License OAA
Creative Commons Attribution Non-Commercial - NoDerivs License OAA
To preview the terms and conditions of these open access agreements please visit the Copyright FAQs hosted on Wiley Author Services. Details of Open Access licence terms are available here.
If you select the Open Access option and your research is funded by The Wellcome Trust and members of the Research Councils UK (RCUK) you will be given the opportunity to publish your article under a CC-BY license supporting you in complying with Wellcome Trust and Research Councils UK requirements. For more information on this policy and the Journal’s compliant self-archiving policy please visit http://www.wiley.com/go/funderstatement.
Early View
The journal offers rapid publication via Wiley’s Early View service. Early View (Online Version of Record) articles are published on Wiley Online Library before inclusion in an issue. Note there may be a delay after corrections are received before the article appears online, as Editors also need to review proofs. Once the article is published on Early View, no further changes to the article are possible. The Early View article is fully citable and carries an online publication date and DOI for citations.
Offprints
Free access to the final PDF offprint of your article will be available via author services only. Please therefore sign up for author services if you would like to access your article PDF offprint and enjoy the many other benefits the service offers. Paper offprints may be ordered at prices quoted on the order form, which accompanies the proofs, provided that the form is returned with the proofs. The cost is more if the form arrives too late for the main print run. Offprints are normally dispatched within three weeks of publication of the issue in which the paper appears. Please contact the publishers if offprints do not arrive: however, please note that offprints are sent by surface mail, so overseas orders may take up to six weeks to arrive. Electronic offprints are sent to the first author at his or her first email address on the title page of the paper, unless advised otherwise; therefore please ensure that the name, address and email address of the receiving author are clearly indicated on the manuscript title page if he or she is not the first author of the paper.
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