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1. Applicants should complete the online abstract registration form on www.iscat.net before Thursday 10th, 2012, at midnight. Your email address has to be valid. Abstracts sent by fax, by email or by mail or summaries receipted after the deadline submission will not be considered.
2. Authors may submit several abstracts.
3. The organizers wil publish only the work of accepted abstract candidates who are fully registered for the congress.
4. The scientific committee will access each application for inclusion in the conference.
5. Applicants must meet the word limit set by the organizing committee (350 words - Times New Roman 11 - 1 900 characters). All abstracts should be submitted in English. The summary must be structured as below:
A. Introduction B. Materials and Methods C. Results D. Conclusions
6. No more than one simple image should be submitted per application (table or illustration). A limit of 50 words should be observed.
7. Review process: summaries will be assessed anonymously by the scientific committee and will be evaluated by a panel of reviewers according to the following criteria:
• Originality • Coherence between the method and the results • Scientific interest • General presentation
8. Summaries not corresponding to the instructions will not be taken into account. Applications will be marked by the scientific committee and review panel and an average rating will be attributed to each proposal. In this way, abstracts will be selected for poster presentations.
Applicants will be advised of the scientific committee's final decision in June 2012. TO SUBMIT AN ABSTRACT, please click here. |
