Corrections

CAB Direct treats corrections as part of the published record. A substantive change is not meant to disappear into an undated rewrite: corrections are dated and remain visible so readers can see that the article has changed.

What may require correction

A correction is appropriate when a published statement, number, date, attribution, research result or source reference is shown to be inaccurate or materially misleading. Missing evidence should not be replaced with a guess.

How changes are shown

• Substantive corrections carry a date.
• The correction remains visible with the article rather than being silently removed.
• Where the evidence itself has changed, the article should distinguish an evidence update from a correction of an earlier factual error.
• Health and nutrition content is subject to recurring evidence review on a six-month cycle.

Reporting a problem

When reporting an issue, identify the page and the specific statement or figure that may be wrong. If possible, include a primary source, systematic review or authoritative institutional source that supports the proposed correction. This helps the editorial check focus on the exact claim rather than on a general disagreement with the article.

Use /contacts/ for the available contact routes. The standards used to assess sources are described in /editorial-policy/ and /how-we-rate-evidence/.

Archive records

Archive pages are corrected when their metadata or description is shown to be wrong. The historical record itself is not modernised into a new finding: the page should preserve the identity of the original work while using current context to explain what later evidence has established.