Ongoing Special Issue

Current themed collections advancing colorectal cancer research.

Ongoing special issues address timely priorities in colorectal cancer research and care. Themes may include precision oncology, surgical innovation, survivorship, and population health.

If you are unsure about current themes, contact the editorial office for guidance.

• Guest editors coordinate peer review with editorial oversight
• Manuscripts follow standard ethical and reporting requirements
• Accepted articles publish on a rolling basis
• Issue summaries highlight emerging evidence and clinical themes

• Align manuscript focus with the issue theme
• Use validated outcome measures and staging criteria
• Provide clear methodology and intervention details
• Disclose conflicts of interest and funding
• Submit data availability statements and ethics approvals

These elements help evaluate special issue proposals efficiently.

• Define the theme and scope clearly
• Describe clinical or research significance
• List proposed guest editors and affiliations
• Outline article types and target volume
• Provide a submission and review timeline
• Describe reviewer recruitment plans
• Include outreach or promotion strategy
• Confirm alignment with journal priorities
• Provide ethics and reporting expectations
• Share a point of contact for coordination

Ongoing special issues highlight emerging questions in colorectal oncology, such as precision surgery, microbiome impacts, immunotherapy response, and survivorship pathways.

• Precision risk stratification and ctDNA monitoring
• Optimizing neoadjuvant and adjuvant treatment
• Surgical innovation and minimally invasive techniques
• Health equity and access to screening
• Long term survivorship and quality of life

Submissions are accepted on a rolling basis until the issue closes. Authors should review the call for papers to confirm deadlines and scope alignment.

• Submit early for priority review
• Contact the editorial office for fit questions
• Track status through ManuscriptZone

Special issue articles receive coordinated promotion and thematic visibility, helping clinical communities identify related work quickly.

Special issue content receives coordinated promotion through journal channels and targeted outreach to colorectal cancer communities.

• Grouped publication for thematic visibility
• Targeted messaging to clinical audiences
• Long term archiving with issue level metadata

Authors can track issue updates through the journal site and contact [email protected] for deadline clarification.

To be considered for ongoing special issues, submissions should highlight relevance to the theme and provide timely, clinically meaningful findings.

• Explicitly mention the issue theme in the cover letter
• Align keywords with the issue focus
• Submit data availability and ethics statements

These steps improve fit and visibility for ongoing special issues.

• Highlight the issue theme in the abstract
• Explain why the study advances the topic
• Submit early to allow peer review before closure
• Coordinate timelines with coauthors and collaborators
• Use consistent issue keywords for discoverability

Stay aligned with deadlines and theme updates.

• Monitor issue announcements for changes
• Confirm target publication window with editors
• Coordinate coauthor timelines for revisions
• Ask about promotional opportunities

Timely submission helps inclusion before the issue closes.

• Submit early for full peer review cycle
• Coordinate revision timelines with coauthors
• Confirm final decision deadlines

Planning ahead improves inclusion in the issue.

• Confirm revision deadlines
• Plan for any supplemental data updates
• Notify the office of time sensitive results

Align your submission to the issue scope and schedule.

• Confirm key outcomes relate to the theme
• Plan for timely revisions

Coordinate updates with the editorial office as needed.

• Notify editors of major revisions
• Confirm final publication slot

Coordinated planning keeps the issue on track and helps ensure accepted articles are published together.

Coordinate any scope changes with the editorial office before final submission.