Information
abstract Guidelines
Message from Prof. James D. Chalmers, Chairman of the
7th WBC Conference about abstracts submission.
Information
general information
- Late breaking abstracts window will open on May 24th – June 10th, 2024.
- Abstracts must be submitted on or before the above-mentioned deadline, the organisers reserve the right to reject any abstract not following the required format.
- Changes on abstracts are possible until the deadline by re-entering the online submission.
- The abstract must be written in English. If English is not your first language, please have it reviewed. The abstract must not contain any spelling, grammatical or scientific error.
- No corrections are possible after the submission deadline. The abstract will be reproduced exactly as submitted. No proofreading will be done.
- All the communications concerning the abstract will be sent to the submitter who will be responsible for informing the other authors of the status of the abstract.
- For each abstract a presenting author has to be identified. For any change in the presenter’s name, please make sure to inform the Organising Secretariat wbc@lena.events
- The presenting author must accept full responsibility for the content, submission and presentation of the abstract, and retain full copyright of their abstract and presentation.
- By submitting an abstract, authors automatically authorise the Conference to publish, submit for publication their abstract (as well as picture(s), graph(s) and biography) or include them in the Conference printings or online publications.
- The submitted work must not be published as a full paper in a journal by the time of the meeting or have appeared in print elsewhere (except in abstract form) prior to the meeting.
Guidelines
guidelines for submission
- Structured abstracts are mandatory stating clearly the Background/Aims, Methods, Results and Conclusions.
- Abstracts should be written in English and the complete abstract must not exceed the 500 words box space. Abstracts can contain formulas, pictures or graphs.
- We recommend that you prepare your text in a word processing programme (e.g. Microsoft Word) and then copy-paste the final text into the online abstract submission form.
- It is possible to submit more than one abstract
- A submitted abstract can have a maximum of one presenting author
- A submitted abstract can be edited online until the given deadline (June 10th, 2024)
- Conflict of Interest/Disclosure: Abstracts must include an acknowledgement of any commercial funding sources. Authors should declare all commercial interests.
- All studies must have been approved by institutional committees on Ethics of experimental and human investigations.
Step by step
Abstract submission step by step
To submit your abstract online, please follow the instructions:
- Enter the online system and fill your personal details if you do not have an existing profile
- Select the category “Posters”
- Select the appropriate topic among the list
- Insert the authors and co-authors name
- Insert affiliations for each author and associate
- Make sure that you identify the Presenter among the existing authors
- Insert the abstract Title
- Insert the body (That must be submitted in the required format)
- State the conflict-of-interest disclosures for each author at the end of the submitted abstract (If there are no conflict of interest, it should be stated as well).
Selection
selection criteria
The main selecting criteria will be the relevancy and scientific value of the abstract presented, evaluated by the Scientific Committee of the Conference. The choice will be made at the Committee discretion.
Acceptance
acceptance
Notifications to submitters will be sent by the end of June 18th 2024.
Abstracts will be accepted as posters.
Submission will open May 24th - June 10th, 2024
If you have any questions regarding abstracts please write to wbc@lena.events
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