Abstract submission

Guidelines

All abstracts are submitted online, in the page that follows. Abstracts must be submitted in English (British or American variants are accepted, but please be consistent).

If you are submitting an abstract for a poster session, you will need to select that session. The abstract submisson page also displays your personal information, as stored in our database (please remember to update this information if it changes, as it could be useful for future meetings). If you are using a colleague's computer, the information displayed may not refer to yourself; this can be changed by logging in as yourself: simply click on the appropriate link.

Our online submission form uses a rich text editor for the title and text of your abstract. Similarly to a standard desktop text editor such as Microsoft Word, you will be able to format your text with italics, underlined, bold, super- and subscript, and you will be able to include special characters (e.g., Greek letters). Some browsers, however, are not capable of correctly implementing this feature. We ask you to kindly use any one of the following, freely available browsers: Internet Explorer v6+, Firefox v2+, or Netscape v7+ (older versions, as well as Opera and Safari, do not handle this editor correctly). Please note that the range of browsers supported covers PC, Mac, and Linux machines.

Abstract Title

Type the title for your abstract in the field provided; alternatively, paste unformatted* text into this field. Keep the title as succinct as possible. Start your title in uppercase and continue in lowercase; please do not type the complete title in uppercase letters (see the online Programme for examples). You may then use standard word processor formatting such as italic, underlined, super- and subscript, as well as special characters (including Greek letters).

Affiliations

In addition to the affiliation listed in your personal data, you may enter up to three more affiliations, for yourself or additional authors. Enter each affiliation in full (i.e., department and university, section and company, etc) in a single line, separated by commas if required, and use standard abbreviations (Dept, Univ., etc) whenever possible.
  e.g., Dept Biomedical Sciences, Univ. Utrecht
Avoid unnecessary capitalization. For each affiliation you must enter the corresponding city and country. Use the country's official ISO 3166 two-letter code; e.g., NL. If you don't know this code, follow this link. The State/Province field is not mandatory.

Additional Authors

You may enter up to 7 co-authors. Enter your co-authors as initials (first box) and surname (second box); e.g., W.J.J.M. (first box) Scheenen (second box). Match each author to the appropriate affiliation(s) by ticking the corresponding boxes.
If you are not the first author in the abstract, you may select the position of your name; other authors maintain their relative order.
If you have complex authorship requirements that cannot be defined in this framework (a total of 8 authors and up to 4 affiliations), please submit the abstract just with your name and without any co-authors. Upon submission, you will receive a confirmation e-mail containing a unique abstract submission identifier (UAI): send the organisers the detailed authorship, quoting that UAI, and your entry will be manually edited.

Abstract Text

Type the abstract in the rich text field provided. The complete abstract should be in a single paragraph and should not be longer than 300 words; abstracts that exceed this limit will be truncated upon publication in the abstract book! As for the Abstract Title field, please do not paste directly from Microsoft Word; you may, however, paste unformatted* text. You may then use standard word processor formatting such as bold, italic, underlined, super- and subscript, as well as special characters (including Greek letters).

In the screen that follows, you will be able to verify the full contents of your abstract. If required, you may choose to change these contents. You may also print these contents, but note that it is the e-mail confirmation that will be sent to you that contains the definitive version of your abstract. Once you confirm your submission, no further changes to your abstract will be possible. The abstract submitter is responsible for the exact contents of the abstract (including Title, Authorship and Affiliation(s), and Abstract text), which will be automatically processed and published as is in the meeting's Programme & Abstract book.

In simple terms, unformatted text is text with only the visible characters and without any hidden control characters that different word processors may use. If you wish to paste text from, for example, Microsoft Word, follow these rules: open a simple text editor (e.g., Notepad) and paste your text from Word into the text editor; select and copy the text from the simple text editor (thus ensuring that any hidden characters carried over from Word are eliminated); paste the text into the Abstract Submission Form and format it at will.

Enough guidelines... Let's do it!

Eligible Master's students require their registration code (see the information page) and should submit abstracts through this page.

Everyone else should submit abstracts through this page.