The final, formally published version of a scholarly work as issued by the publisher — including typesetting, pagination, copy-editing, and an assigned bibliographic citation — which is the canonical citable form of the work absent subsequent corrections.

ByCASRAI Editorial Board

· Last updated 21 May 2026

Examples

Worked examples

Is an instance
The publisher's typeset PDF of a Nature article carrying volume, issue, and page numbers

Counter-examples

Looks similar, but isn't

Not an instance
An author-accepted manuscript posted to a repository is not the VoR (it is the postprint)

Editorial commentary

The VoR is what a paper’s DOI most commonly resolves to. Corrections, retractions, and updates apply to the VoR via linked notices. NISO’s Journal Article Versions (JAV) recommendation distinguishes VoR from earlier versions (submitted, accepted) and from corrected/enhanced post-publication versions.

References

NISO Journal Article Versions Recommended Practice (NISO RP-8-2008)
Crossref VoR identification

Also known as

VoR · Published version · Final published article

Machine-readable encodings

Use in your systems

JATS XML <role> element

xml

<role vocab="credit"
      vocab-identifier="https://casrai.org/dictionary/"
      vocab-term="Version of record (VoR)"
      vocab-term-identifier="https://casrai.org/dictionary/term/version-of-record" />

Schema.org DefinedTerm (JSON-LD)

json

{
  "@context": "https://schema.org",
  "@type": "DefinedTerm",
  "@id": "https://casrai.org/dictionary/term/version-of-record",
  "name": "Version of record (VoR)",
  "identifier": "https://casrai.org/dictionary/term/version-of-record",
  "description": "The final, formally published version of a scholarly work as issued by the publisher — including typesetting, pagination, copy-editing, and an assigned bibliographic citation — which is the canonical citable form of the work absent subsequent corrections.",
  "inDefinedTermSet": "https://casrai.org/dictionary/domain/research-outputs#set",
  "url": "https://casrai.org/dictionary/term/version-of-record",
  "sameAs": [
    "VoR",
    "Published version",
    "Final published article"
  ],
  "license": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/",
  "publisher": {
    "@id": "https://casrai.org/#organization"
  },
  "dateModified": "2026-05-21T02:04:04",
  "inLanguage": "en"
}

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