First published: June 30, 2015 

Last updated: August 15, 2020

Guidelines for manuscript preparation, submission, and manuscript format: Retrospective cohort study

These retrospective cohort study articles are submitted by any author and describe a research study in which the medical records of groups of individuals who are alike in many ways but differ in a certain characteristic (for example, female nurses who smoke and those who do not smoke) are compared for a particular outcome (such as gastric cancer).

For full retrospective cohort study article guidelines for manuscript preparation, submission, and manuscript format, please click on the links below: