Submission Guidelines
New for 2025: Late-Breaking Call for Abstract | August 1-31, 2025
CSRS will solicit abstracts through a Late-Breaking Call for Abstracts from August 1 - 31 for work to be presented at the CSRS 53rd Annual Meeting this December 3-6, 2025 in Washington, DC. The application process will be similar to the traditional Call for Abstracts and an expedited review process will occur.
All abstracts submitted to the Late-Breaking Call for Abstracts will be eligible for presentation at the 53rd Annual Meeting. There will be one dedicated abstract session for abstracts submitted to the Late-Breaking Call for Abstracts.
Important Dates:
| Late-Breaking Call for Abstracts Open | August 1, 2025 |
| Late-Breaking Call for Abstracts Closes | August 31, 2025 at 11:59 PM Central Time |
| Acceptance & Rejection Notifications Sent | October 1, 2025 |
| Accepted Abstracts Confirmation Due | October 8, 2025 |
| Presenter Registration Deadline | October 16, 2025 |
| CSRS 53rd Annual Meeting | December 3-6, 2025 |
Please note: Abstracts rejected from the Spring Call for Abstracts may not be re-submitted to the Late-Breaking Call for Abstracts.
Email info@csrs.org with specific questions.
The 2025 Call for Abstracts is now closed.
Acceptance and rejection notifications for all abstracts submitted in the Spring Call for Abstracts will be sent in mid-June.
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.
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
April 21, 2025
Call for Abstracts Extension Deadline
June/July 2025
Acceptance & Rejection Notifications Sent Out
August 1, 2025
Late-Breaking Call for Abstracts Open
August 31, 2025
Late-Breaking Call for Abstracts Closes
December 3-6, 2025
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