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Electronic Scientific Poster Submission Guidelines

Electronic posters display your work in a concise form, enabling conference attendees to grasp the essentials of the subject in a reasonable time frame. Electronic posters are prepared in English, displayed on large flat screens in PowerPoint format.
In addition, the delegates receive an electronic copy of your poster on a website so they can read it later on and make further contact with you as the author.

NOTE: There are NO paper/cloth display board posters at this conference. All posters are in electronic format.

Preparing an electronic poster is a little different from conventional posters. You need to submit your electronic poster in ONE PowerPoint slide, exactly the same way you submit it to a printer. This ONE slide should contain the same content that you would display on a printed poster board display. Only online abstracts will be accepted. Please submit your abstract according to the format described below.

Please download the Electronic Poster Abstract Submission Template

Title and Author 

You will be asked to provide the following details:

Title: Use a maximum of 20 words in sentence case
Authors: List a maximum of eight names. Please note that the first author will be considered the recipient of any conference prizes awarded
Institution: One primary affiliation should be listed for each author in the format: “Institution, City, Country”

Body of Abstract

Using the following structured abstract format and no more than 400 words, you must submit your abstracts in a separate word file using the template provided. Abstracts that do not comply with the submission guidelines (e.g. incorrect font, incorrect formatting, more than 400 words) will not be considered.

Objective: State the main study questions and identify any hypotheses being tested.

Design: State the study type, e.g. Randomised controlled trial, Systematic review, Cost-benefit analysis, or Retrospective cohort study.

Method: Describe the participants (report age as mean (SD) in years and months; sex as ‘n=’ (not %); relevant classification/s; recruitment method), instrumentation and measures (use SI units, except for blood pressure use mmHg, convert imperial units to metric), procedure and statistical analyses used.

Results: Identify the main study outcomes including results of any statistical tests (show standard deviations as (SD), not ±; do not use percentages for sample sizes below 50; abbreviate probability with a lower case italicized p). Please note that it is not sufficient just to state that ‘results will be presented’.

Conclusion: State conclusions as clinical implications and future research directions.

References: If necessary, a maximum of 3 references will be accepted, but will be included in your word count

Figures and Tables: Are not permitted and will be removed.

Additional Information: Additional information such as acknowledgements, disclosures and funding sources are not required and will be removed.

 
Author Notification

You will be notified of acceptance of your submission by late August giving adequate time for travel arrangements to be made. All presenters for paper, electronic poster, workshops and breakfast sessions must pay for conference registration, co-ordinate their own accommodation and travel arrangements and where applicable organise their own travel visas.

Upon receiving notification of acceptance, authors are required to notify the Conference Office of their intent to participate/present at the conference. Authors who fail to notify the Conference Office by the 31st August 2013 may have their presentations withdrawn from the program at the discretion of the committee. 

Submission deadline for finalised electronic posters is 31st January 2014.
Additionally, once the deadline of 31st January 2014 has passed it will not be possible to submit your electronic poster. 
 

Terms and Conditions

By submitting an abstract you are agreeing to the following terms and conditions:

• This abstract been NOT presented at a previous AusACPDM conference 
• This abstract NOT been printed in a previous journal supplement for a conference 
• This abstract has been proofed by the lead author and research team 
• The research team agrees to the poster being provided to delegates as an electronic file, to enable them to read it after the conference and make contact with you 
• The research team agree to the abstract being viewable via the AusACPDM website 
• The patients in any photographs supplied have given permission for their photograph to be used for this purpose