APRIL 30 - MAY 3 2008 PRAGUE, CZECH REPUBLIC

CALL FOR ABSTRACTS AND INSTRUCTIONS

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Click here to submit an abstract for the 10th ESC Congress

The Organizing and Scientific Committee cordially invite all those involved in any aspect of contraception, sexual and reproductive health care to participate actively by submitting abstracts, either for oral or poster presentation. All abstracts will be peer reviewed and those accepted will be published in a Supplement of the European Journal of Contraception and Reproductive Health Care.

Oral Communications

Young Scientist Session

Poster presentations      

Awards

Topics for Free Communications and Posters

Procedure and general policy

• Original scientific material is welcome and should not have been previously published. Abstracts presented at local, regional or national meetings may be submitted.
• Abstracts must reach the online system not later than 1 January 2008. Receipt of the abstract will be confirmed.
• Any person submitting an abstract can only be the first author for two abstracts.
• Authors will need to indicate their preference on the online form: oral communication only, poster only, either oral or poster.
• Authors who wish their abstract to be considered for one of the awards (see elsewhere) or/and for presentation during the Young Scientist session, should indicate this on the online submission form.
• Abstracts will be peer reviewed (blind) by at least two referees.
• Confirmation of acceptance or rejection by the Scientific Committee will be mailed to the corresponding author. Detailed practical information regarding the presentation, will be included in the confirmation.
• Accepted abstracts will be published in the Book of Abstracts of the Congress, Supplement of the European Journal of Contraception and Reproductive Health Care.
• Presenting authors, whose abstracts are accepted for presentation, must register for the congress and pay the (early) registration fee. In case of no show at the time of the congress, the author may be blacklisted for the next congress. 

How to submit an abstract?

1. Abstracts can only be submitted electronically through the online system on www.contraception-esc.com (congress section) - "Click here to submit an abstract". Hard copy abstracts (sent by fax or post) will not be considered.
2. As a first step, you need to register as a first time user. The system will ask you to enter your name and contact details and to create a personal password. After having submitted this information, you will receive (download) an abstract template together with an instruction file by email.
3. Open the template file (offline) and enter your abstract into it following the instructions in the instruction file. In case you intend to submit more than one abstract, you can duplicate the template file.
4. Log in to the submission system when your abstract is completed and ready to be sent (upload). To log in, enter your email address and the password you chose when you first registered with the system (see 2).
5. When you click the "log in" button you will be taken to a screen from which the submission process starts. Please read the instructions on this screen carefully. If you have not yet submitted an abstract to the system you should click the link that says "Click here to submit a new abstract".
6. Should you want to submit several abstracts, you have to login each time you want to submit an abstract.
7. Please contact the administrator by email (orgamed.abstracts@telenet.be) if you have any problems with this process.

Typing and other instructions

1. Abstracts must be written in English (English, not American spelling).
2. Use Arial font, size 10.
3. The abstract must fit into the abstract frame.
4. Type the title of the abstract in bold and Sentence case (no capitals!) in the first textbox.
5. Do not enter names of authors or affiliations in the abstract template as your abstract needs to remain unidentified (blinded) to the reviewers. As you will need to enter this information elsewhere online, the system will make the correct link between your name etc. and your abstract.
6. Preferably do not enter references.
7. The text of the abstract should briefly state: 

1. Objective(s): indicate the purpose of the study or the hypothesis that was tested.
2. Design & Methods: include the setting for the study, the subjects (number and type), the diagnosis or intervention, and statistical analysis.
3. Results: present as clearly as possible the outcome of the study and statistical significance if appropriate.
4. Conclusions: briefly discuss the data and emphasize the significance of the results.

8. Type the text of the abstract single-spaced with no indentations, using the full width of the document.
9. Avoid the use of symbols.
10. Standard abbreviations are accepted in the text. Unusual ones should be in brackets after the word first appears. Do not use abbreviations in the title.
11. Please ensure that your abstract does not contain any errors in spelling, grammar or scientific facts as it will be reproduced exactly as you type it.

Abstract submission deadline 13 January 2008

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