Guidelines for Submission of Abstracts

Abstracts will be assigned to oral and poster presentations only!

Poster Presentations
Selected Posters will be talked over in the Poster area of the Congress center. Posters must fit the size of the poster board: 150 cm height by 90 cm width.
Oral Presentations
10 minutes will be given for oral presentations.

Submission Deadline Date and General Policies
All oral and poster abstracts should reach the Congress Secretariat no later than January 15, 2009.

Registration fees should accompany all submissions. Presenters are expected to attend the Congress and are required to pay the registration fee at the time of abstract submission. Posters must be submitted in English language. 

Important note: Accepted oral presentations or posters will be included in the Final Program only if the presenting author has registered to the Congress Organizing Secretariat by February 28, 2009.

Poster Selection
All oral presentations and posters will be reviewed to appraise the quality of the work presented. The Scientific Committee will select and evaluate all abstracts submitted for presentation. The authors will be notified by the Scientific Committee of acceptance or not of their presentation.
 
Submission Procedure
Abstracts should be submitted through Internet. On-line electronic submission form is at your disposal click here.
No abstracts will be accepted for review without the accompanying “Abstract Submission Form”
 
Abstract Content
Abstracts should be structured and consist of the following parts:

• Introduction or Aims - should be informative and brief, stating why the study was conducted;
• Material & Method - stating the locale, number and type of human subjects, non-human species or material being studied, the principal test(s) held, and the types of statistical analysis if appropriate;
• Results - confirming or confuting the hypothesis, backed up by statistics if appropriate;
• Conclusions - indicating the effect of the study on patient management, our understanding of basic processes with the organism, or the way in which we teach students or patients.

Abstract Content
Abstracts should be structured and consist of the following parts:

• Introduction or Aims - should be informative and brief, stating why the study was conducted;
• Material & Method.
• Results.

Conclusions. Abstracts must be computer generated, single-spaced and the font should ideally be 12-point.

Begin with the title of the abstract in capitals. Use lower-case letters for the rest and do not indent. The title should portray the contents and should be no longer than 50 characters.

Skip the line after the title and list the authors with the family name first, followed by the initials (i.e. Richardson B., Cable J. and Former A.). Do not add in professional title or degrees. Skip a line after the authors list and add institutions. A number between brackets should correspond to each author and institution, when authors come from more than one institution (i.e. Richardson B. (1), Cable J. (2) etc.)

Then start with Introduction, followed by Material, Results and Conclusion.

Skip a line between the authors' address(-es) and the body of the abstract. Do not leave a blank line between paragraphs. The text must be maximum 350 words. The several sections of the abstract - introduction or aims, material and methods, result, conclusions - are not to be typed in bold.

Example

TITLE-TITLE-TITLE-TITLE-TITLE” B. Richardson (1), J. Cable (2) (1) 1st Dept., (2) 2nd Dept. Text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text

For the on-line Abstract Submission Form please click here

For further information regarding Abstracts please contact:

Dr. Jorge Said Martínez