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Cochrane's standard editorial and publishing policies and practices for articles published in the Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews.

Authoring: proposing and preparing Cochrane Reviews	Editorial: submission to publication	After publication
Unable to render {children}. Page not found: When preparing Cochrane Reviews (pre-submission).	Unable to render {children}. Page not found: From submitting for editorial review to publication.	Article sharing Policy: article sharing Inclusion in PubMed Central Comments on Cochrane Reviews Comments: policy and process overview Submitting comments on Cochrane Reviews and protocols Citing comments Comments submitted outside the Cochrane Library commenting system Serious errors in published Cochrane Reviews Withdrawing published Cochrane Reviews
General editorial policies	General publishing policies	For Editors: editorial management
Authorship and contributorship Criteria for authorship Editors or editorial staff as authors of Cochrane Reviews from their Cochrane Review Group Changes in authorship Authors using a group name Joint first authors Change in author affiliation Deceased authors Changes to author name Changes to author contact details Authorship disputes Conflicts of interest and Cochrane Reviews Policy: conflicts of interest and Cochrane Reviews Conflicts of interest declarations for Editorials Defamation	Access to archive of Cochrane Reviews Advertising Citation versions: DOIs and URLs Digital object identifier (DOI) and website address (URL) of a Cochrane Review Complaints procedure: Cochrane Library Complimentary Cochrane Library access for Cochrane authors and Groups Co-publication Policy and overview Arranging co-publication of a Cochrane Review Co-publication agreements with other journals Converting systematic reviews (non-Cochrane) to Cochrane Reviews Submitting abstracts to conferences Co-publication forms Reuse of published Cochrane content by Cochrane Groups Copyrighted images: using in articles published in the CDSR Date fields in Cochrane Reviews: overview Editorial notes Impact factor Licence for publication forms Policy and process Where contributions are owned by Employer Submitting forms on behalf of an author Licence for publication forms for Cochrane Reviews and protocols Licence for publication forms for editorials Open access Policy overview (open access) Gold open access Green open access Funder mandates How open is it? Permission to reuse Cochrane Reviews Re-use of Cochrane Reviews for users and third parties Authors/copyright owners of Cochrane Reviews Inclusion in a thesis or dissertation Cochrane Groups (including Cochrane Review Groups): Abstracts and Plain language summaries Translator terms and conditions PROSPERO: International prospective register of systematic reviews	Unable to render {children}. Page not found: Editorial management.

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