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General Information
How to use the online abstract submission system
1.Submitting an abstract
A. Important Information
- An abstract template was attached to your registration email. This is Microsoft Word 97-2003 file which is designed to ensure that your abstract is prepared correctly for publication. Please save this template file to your PC's hard drive and use it when you prepare your abstract.
- If you are submitting more than one abstract you can use the same email address and password for each abstract.
- Abstracts MUST be submitted using the template form provided.
B. Preparing Your Abstract
- Open the template file and enter your abstract following the instructions above. Save it and make a note of its saved location.
- As the refereeing process is "blinded" no names of authors, hospitals, medical schools, clinics or cities may be listed in the title or text of the abstract. The names of authors and their affiliations (institutions) will be submitted online when you have fulfilled the submission system registration.
C. The Submission Process
- Log in to the submission system when your abstract is completed and ready to send. To log in, enter your email address and the password you chose when you registered with the system.
- 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 are submitting a new abstract to the system you should click the link that says "Click here to submit a new abstract".
- Submitting an abstract is a multi-step process. Each step asks several questions:
- During the submission process you will be asked to click the "Browse" button and locate your abstract file on your PC's hard disk. Fill in answers to any other questions on this screen and then click the "Next" button. Your abstract file will be sent to our system - this may take a few seconds if you have a fast internet connection, but may take longer if your connection is slow or if you have included lots of graphics in your abstract. Please be patient!
- You can copy the abstract title from your Word document and paste it into the "Title" field on the submission form. Please note that because of web browser limitations some scientific symbols may not paste correctly into the form - you may have to correct this by writing the name of the symbol in full, for example "beta" instead of ß. Your Word document will not be affected.
- The required questions are marked. We cannot accept your abstract until these questions have been answered.
- If you do not know the answer to a question - for example you may not be sure in which category your abstract should be presented - you can skip the question and return on a later occasion to complete it.
- Once you have completed the final step click the "Finish" button. If you have answered all the required questions your abstract will be assigned a reference number and you will receive confirmation by email. If you have not answered all the required questions your abstract will be held in temporary storage until you return later and complete all the questions.
2. Amending a submission
You may wish to change your answers to some of the questions on the submission form, or even to change the abstract file itself.
- Log in to the submission system.
- You will see a list of the abstracts that you have submitted. Click on the abstract that you wish to change.
- The process of amending an abstract is the same as the original submission process, except that the submission form will be automatically filled in with the answers that you gave previously - you don't have to change an answer if you don't want to.
- If you want to change your abstract file you can click the "Browse" button to locate the revised file on your PC's hard disk, then click "Next" to send it to the abstract system. If you don't want to change the file, just press "Next" to bypass this step.
- When you reach the final step and press "Finish" you will be sent an email confirming that your abstract has been amended - provided you have answered all the mandatory questions.
3. Withdrawing an abstract
If you want to withdraw an abstract please contact the scientific secretary of EACTA (scisec@eacta.org).
4. Writing Guide to Authors
All abstracts must be submitted via OXFORD ABSTRACTS - Abstracts sent after the submission deadline cannot be accepted.
Please answer all required questions in Submission process. For prospective clinical studies please notice the questions regarding Ethical Committee Approval and Informed Patient Consent. Animal studies require Institutional Approval. Please state your preference for oral or poster presentation and the suggested abstract group where applicable. The Abstract Committee, however, reserves the right to determine the form of presentation.
A. Typing and formatting
- The abstract should be written in English. Use British spelling, e.g. anaesthesia, oesophagus, crystalloid. However, you can easily eliminate many typing errors and misspelling by using the spell-check feature of your word processing software.
- The layout of the abstract should be the following:
- Title Box must only include the Title. Total numbers characters allowed including spacing is 150.
- Text Box, starting a new line for each subheading: Introduction, Methods, Results, Discussion, and References. The title should be brief and in Bold capitals. Headings of the text (Introduction, Methods, etc.) should be Bold sentence case. The total numbers of characters allowed including spacing is 2800, which includes figures and tables.
- The preferred font is Arial (or similar) with a size no smaller than 11 point (9cpi). Note that the accepted abstracts will be reduced to approximately 80 % of the original size when they are printed. Smaller size will result in unreadable text.
- Use the SI-system for all units of measurement (e.g. ml, kg, kPa) with the exception of mmHg for blood pressures. With two items or more, negative exponents should be used, e.g. ml • min-1. The use of abbreviations should be minimised, and they must be defined the first time they are used.
- One figure or one table within the borders of the abstract is allowed. Figure and tables should be aligned with the text. Text in the figures or tables will also be reduced to 80%. Be sure that all text in the figure or table is readable. Ensure that lines on figures are thick enough to bear reduction for printing. All figures should be in black-and-white.
- You may use one and but no more than three relevant references, numbered ([1]) in order of appearance in the text and listed at the end of the text. They should have the following sequence: author(s), title, journal (as abbreviated in Index Medicus), year, volume and pages. For example: Latimer RD. Inhaled nitric oxide in the management of pulmonary hypertension after mitral valve surgery. Br J Anaesth 1994; 72: 185-9.
- Key Words are not needed
5. Handling of Abstracts by EACTA Abstract Committee
- All abstracts undergo a 2-step-selection process:
- Pre-selection: the abstract is rejected, accepted or accepted pending revision according to referees' scoring. Accepted abstracts may require additional language editing. Accepted pending revision, requires the authors revise the abstracts according to scientific queries.
- Resubmission: Authors of accepted abstracts are requested to give agreement to language editing, if any, and if required, to revise their abstract according to referees' queries. Author's agreements and new versions of the abstracts should be sent to the scientific secretary (scisec@eacta.org) within 8 days.
- Final selection: The abstract committee decides about the final selection (accept/ reject, oral/poster presentation) in early March.
- Authors will be notified of the acceptance or rejection of their abstracts by the end of March. Authors of accepted abstracts will also be informed whether the abstracts have been accepted for oral or poster presentation. The presenting authors of accepted abstracts will need to register for participation at the Annual Meeting as soon as they have received confirmation of acceptance of their abstract. Each abstract accepted (as such or after revision) will be included in the Final Programme. It is intended that all the accepted abstracts will be published but the EACTA DB has yet to decide which journal will be used for publication. HOWEVER, MEETING REGISTRATION OF THE PRESENTING AUTHOR IS A PREREQUISITE FOR FINAL ACCEPTANCE AND PUBLICATION OF THE ABSTRACT.
- Based on the ranking at the evaluation, the Scientific Committee will select 5 oral abstracts for presentation in the "Best Oral Abstracts Session", and 5 posters for oral presentation in the "Best Posters Session". These abstracts will be eligible for EACTA abstract prizes. The grades given by the Scientific Committee for the scientific quality of the abstract and for the oral presentation will decide on the ranking of the abstracts.
6. Presentation at Annual Meeting
Information regarding presentation can be found on the website. Written information will also be given with the notification of acceptance of abstracts.
A. Audio-visual equipment
Standard presentation will be PowerPoint / PC presentation.
B. Language
The official language is English. No simultaneous translations will be provided. All publications will be printed in English.
7. Further Information
If you have any questions or problems concerning the scientific content of your abstract, please contact the Scientific Secretary for further information. scisec@eacta.org
If you experience any technical problems please contact the Oxford Abstracts: kim.wilson@oxfordabstracts.com
Submission of abstracts for the Annual Meeting of EACTA in Barcelona will open on 15th November 2012 and close on the 20th January 2013
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