Guidelines For Submission of Abstracts

This section is designed to help you with the submission of abstracts by providing details of what is required and by giving answers to some of the more common questions and problems people have when submitting abstracts.

The First Step

Enter your contact details on the online pro-forma which you can access via the left hand menu in the NTE (Conference) section: Submit Abstracts tab. Press Submit and you will then be directed to the abstract submission form.

The Form

The form consists of several sections. Firstly we ask for a title for your abstract, followed by an indication of whether you are an invited speaker or are submitting a free paper. Please select the correct category here.

If you are submitting a Free Paper, you must indicate whether it should be considered as a possible Platform or Poster presentation, or both.

Following this, we come to the body of the abstract which consists of 4 sections, each with a word limit:

1. Summary (50 words)
2. Aims and Objectives (70 words)
3. Background, Technique, Standards, Clinical Detail, Results and Testing (500 words)
4. Discussion (250 words)

We appreciate that some may find this format restrictive. However, collecting abstracts in a consistent format saves a great deal of time when processing them. The word limits are also unavoidable, as the abstracts will be published in the conference Book of Abstracts. Lastly in this section there are boxes for entering details of any references and extra authors you wish to be credited. These 2 boxes are optional. If you wish to use them, enter 1 author/reference per line. Please note that if the list of authors/references causes the abstract to run into three pages, we may need to omit some of these at the publication stage.

For guidelines on poster presentations please see the poster presentation guidelines.

Completing Your Abstract Submission

When you are happy with the text you have entered, please press submit. Your abstract will immediately be checked to ensure the format is correct. If all is well, it will be stored and a confirmation email sent to you along with a copy of your submitted abstract.

If there is an error with the abstract submission, you will be returned to the form and alerted to the error so that you can make the necessary changes and re-submit.If you experience any problems with your abstract submission or have any further questions not covered here, please contact olwen.ellis@pmguk.co.uk