About

Chiropractic & Manual Therapies aims to improve patient care by publishing basic science, clinical and health services research that is relevant to chiropractors, manual therapists and related fields, including physical therapy, osteopathy, sports medicine, and rehabilitation. The range of services provided by these professions may include manual and physical therapies, exercise therapies, lifestyle counselling, self-management support, plus a variety of other associated therapeutic and rehabilitation approaches. 

Research topics considered for publication include, but are not limited to:
- understanding pain & pain management
- manual therapies (including manipulation/mobilisation, massage and dry needling)
- rehabilitation
- physical activity & therapy
- gait & posture assessment and management
- nutrition/nutritional therapy
- musculoskeletal conditions (including neurodegeneration conditions and neuropathic pain)

Chiropractic & Manual Therapies continues to serve as a critical resource in this field, and as an open access publication, is more readily available to practitioners, researchers, and clinicians worldwide.

Chiropractic & Manual Therapies is a continuation of the title Chiropractic & Osteopathy (C&O). C&O was formerly known as Australasian Chiropractic & Osteopathy (ACO), previously published by the Chiropractic Australia (CA). Free text versions of ACO articles are available at https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/journals/429/.

All articles published by Chiropractic & Manual Therapies are made freely and permanently accessible online immediately upon publication, without subscription charges or registration barriers. Further information about open access can be found here. 

As authors of articles published in Chiropractic & Manual Therapies you are the copyright holders of your article and have granted to any third party, in advance and in perpetuity, the right to use, reproduce or disseminate your article according to the licence terms. 

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Authors who publish open access in Chiropractic & Manual Therapies are required to pay an article processing charge (APC). The APC price will be determined from the date on which the article is accepted for publication.

The current APC, subject to VAT or local taxes where applicable, is: £1590.00/$2190.00/€1890.00.

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Springer Nature offers APC waivers and discounts for articles published in our fully open access journals whose corresponding authors are based in the world’s lowest income countries (see our APC waivers and discounts policy for further information). Requests for APC waivers and discounts from other authors will be considered on a case-by-case basis, and may be granted in cases of financial need (see our open access policies for journals for more information). All applications for discretionary APC waivers and discounts should be made at the point of manuscript submission; requests made during the review process or after acceptance are unable to be considered.

Publication costs for manuscripts meeting specific criteria will be covered by the journal partners. 

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For information about the APC applicable for articles accepted for publication next year, please see our journal lists.

All articles published in Chiropractic & Manual Therapies are included in:

• Cinahl
• Citebase
• DOAJ
• Embase
• Index to Chiropractic Literature
• MEDLINE
• OAIster
• PubMed
• PubMed Central
• Scopus
• SOCOLAR
• Web of Science through the Science Citation Index - Expanded (SCIE)
• ​Zetoc

The full text of all articles is deposited in digital archives around the world to guarantee long-term digital preservation. You can also access all articles published by BioMed Central on SpringerLink.
We are working closely with relevant indexing services including Web of Science (Clarivate Analytics) to ensure that articles published in Chiropractic & Manual Therapies will be available in their databases when appropriate.

All manuscripts submitted to Chiropractic & Manual Therapies should adhere to BioMed Central's editorial policies.

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Articles in Chiropractic & Manual Therapies  should be cited in the same way as articles in a traditional journal. Because articles are not printed, they do not have page numbers; instead, they are given a unique article number.

Article citations follow this format:

Authors: Title. Chiropr Man Therap [year], [volume number]:[article number].

e.g. Roberts LD, Hassall DG, Winegar DA, Haselden JN, Nicholls AW, Griffin JL: Increased hepatic oxidative metabolism distinguishes the action of Peroxisome Proliferator-Activated Receptor delta from Peroxisome Proliferator-Activated Receptor gamma in the Ob/Ob mouse. Chiropr Man Therap 2009, 1:115.

refers to article 115 from Volume 1 of the journal.

Authors who wish to appeal a rejection or make a complaint should follow the procedure outlined in the BMC Editorial Policies.

High visibility

Chiropractic & Manual Therapies's open access policy allows maximum visibility of articles published in the journal as they are available to a wide, global audience. 

Speed of publication

Chiropractic & Manual Therapies offers a fast publication schedule whilst maintaining rigorous peer review; all articles must be submitted online, and peer review is managed fully electronically (articles are distributed in PDF form, which is automatically generated from the submitted files). Articles will be published with their final citation after acceptance, in both fully browsable web form, and as a formatted PDF.

Flexibility

Online publication in Chiropractic & Manual Therapies gives you the opportunity to publish large datasets, large numbers of color illustrations and moving pictures, to display data in a form that can be read directly by other software packages so as to allow readers to manipulate the data for themselves, and to create all relevant links (for example, to PubMed, to sequence and other databases, and to other articles).

Promotion and press coverage

Articles published in Chiropractic & Manual Therapies are included in article alerts and regular email updates. Some may be highlighted on Chiropractic & Manual Therapies’s pages and on the BMC homepage.

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Copyright

As an author of an article published in Chiropractic & Manual Therapies you retain the copyright of your article and you are free to reproduce and disseminate your work. For further information, see our guide to licensing, copyright and author rights. 

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