Submission Guidelines
The 2025 Call for Abstracts is officially open!
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Financial Disclosure:
- Financial disclosure forms are required for each author & co-author. Your abstract will not be eligible for review until each of your co-authors has completed a disclosure form.
- The submitter is able to track the completion of disclosures and send reminder emails to co-authors within the application portal. It is the responsibility of the submitter to ensure all authors have completed his or her disclosure form.
To revisit your submission to edit or confirm that your co-authors have disclosed, log back into the submission site and find a list of all your submissions.
Adding Presenting Authors/Co-Authors:
- All abstracts require a list of all co-authors listed in publication order. The submitter will need the following information for each co-author: first name, last name, degree, email, institution, city, and country.
- All co-authors must also be assigned a role from the following options: presenting author, senior author, co-author, and submitter-only.
- Presenting Author – this is the individual that will be presenting the abstract on-site, at the 53rd Annual Meeting in Washington, DC. All communication for the abstract will be through this individual, including acceptance and rejection notifications. If you do not know who will be presenting the abstract on-site, CSRS would encourage you to choose a senior author.
- Senior Author – this individual is one of the senior contributors and will be included on correspondence throughout the Call for Abstracts process.
- Co-authors – this is the list of individuals who contributed to the project and will be included on all publication materials.
- Submitter-only – this role should only be used if the individual’s only job is to input the scientific content into the submission portal. He or she will be excluded from all publication materials.
- Drag and re-order your authorship list to reflect how you would like names to be printed in in all publications.
- Only individuals included on the abstract co-author list are eligible to be the Presenting Author at the Annual Meeting. If no one from the original author list can attend the Annual Meeting to present the abstract, it will be removed from the program.
- The author list may not be changed in any way whatsoever – no additions, removals, or re-ordering – is allowed after the Call for Abstracts closes.
Content:
The text should be succinct and substantive.
The abstract must include:
- Introduction: state the purpose of the study—what question was asked and why.
- Materials/Methods: describe the methods used to seek the answer.
- Results: summarize the results.
- Conclusion: discuss the findings with respect to their relationship to existing knowledge, overall significance, etc.
- Topics: Include all non-traumatic and underlying traumatic conditions involving the spine as well as neoplastic conditions of the spine.
Omit any references to specific commercial devices and commercial company names.
Abstract topic category options:
| Basic science | Motion Preservation |
| Biologics & Bone Graft | Non-Operative Care |
| Biomechanics | Other |
| Complications – Avoidance & Management | Outcomes |
| Cost Effectiveness/Health Policy | Surgical Technique |
| Deformity | Trauma |
| Diagnostics/Imaging | Tumor |
| Epidemiology/Etiology/Natural History | Upper Cervical Disease |
Formatting Guidelines:
- Abstracts must be written in the English language and contain terminology familiar to Spine Specialists.
- Length: 500 words max, not including the title or references.
- Images: You may upload a maximum of 3 individual graphics. Do not upload multiple graphics in the same file.
- Please only upload high-resolution graphics. Graphics will appear in print at the same quality as the uploaded image quality.
- Selected abstracts will be printed in the 2025 Abstract Book with pages that will allow graphics to be printed on pages that are 5 inches wide and 6.875 inches tall, in black and white ink.
- Reference images in the body of the abstract as “Figure 1” or “Table A” and label images respectfully.
- Text: Some scientific characters such as the Greek alphabet do not reliably transmit when copy and pasted. It is recommended that the default character set for your browser be used, and whenever possible, special characters be spelled out or manually entered with the special keyboard in the application portal.
Prior Publication or Presentation:
CSRS will not accept abstracts that have been previously presented at other meetings or events, or abstracts that have been published on any platform, including journals or other meetings.
Key Dates
March 1, 2025
Call for Abstracts Open
April 15, 2025
Call for Abstracts Closes
June/July 2025
Acceptance & Rejection Notifications Sent Out
December 3-6, 2025
CSRS 53rd Annual Meeting