Congress abstract information

Abstract information

>>> The submission of Scientific, Allied Health Professional and Social League abstracts is terminated. The results of the scoring will not be available before mid April 2008

GENERAL
Abstracts can only be submitted online via the online abstract submission system. Abstracts sent by post or email will not be accepted. No exceptions will be made.

TECHNICAL REQUIREMENTS
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Please read this information carefully

Abstract submission must be in one of three different categories:
a. Medical or Research Professional / Clinician
b. Allied Health Professional / Practice and Research
c. Social Leagues Member / Patient

The categories are subdivided into topics (Abstract topics >>).
The correct category and topic must be selected to ensure correct scoring. The content of the abstract must be topic related.
Please carefully read all instructions in the abstract submission system before preparing your abstract.
For standardisation, the acceptable length of the abstract is not more than
3 600 printable characters and 42 lines, author’s details and headers included. This also includes non visible characters, such as spaces, and punctuation.
The abstract should be structured into the following sections:
  a. A title which clearly indicates the nature of the investigation
  b. Background
  c. Objectives
  d. Methods
  e. Results
  f. Conclusions
  g. References
One graph/image can be included with the following criteria:
  Max image width: 500 pixels
  Max image height: 500 pixels
  Max file size: 500 KB
  Allowed file type: gif, jpg

Please note that insertion of graphs and images may significantly reduce the number of remaining allowed characters.
If your submitted abstract has been accepted by the system, you will receive a confirmation number. If no confirmation number is received, the abstract cannot be considered as successfully submitted and accepted.
Submitted abstracts can be re-edited and modified until the submission deadline. Therefore, the submitting author will be required to provide his/her e-mail address as the login and a preferred password during submission. To save the abstract all required fields must be filled in. If you leave the system without having provisionally submitted the abstract, all data is lost. The submitted abstracts cannot be edited after the submission
deadline (31 January 2008, Midnight CET).
An abstract can only be submitted if the “Ethical Declaration” on the online abstract form is accepted by entering the submitting author's initials.
An abstract should not be submitted if it has been identically presented on a previous occasion.
The reviewers will judge the abstracts according to the scientific value, potential clinical value, relevance to EULAR, suitability of methods to aims, conclusions confirmed by objective results, objectivity of statements, description of methods used, ethics, originality of work, standard of English and overall impression.
Multiple abstracts relating to a single study may be excluded from scoring and rejected
Please ensure that your abstract does not contain spelling, grammatical or scientific errors, as it will be reproduced exactly as submitted. No proofreading will be done.
Accepted abstracts will be published in the congress abstract book, a supplement to the "Annals of the Rheumatic Diseases - The EULAR Journal", which will be included in the congress bag. Accepted abstracts will also be available online on the EULAR website, about one month prior to the congress.
The submission of an abstract constitutes a formal committment by the presenting author to present the abstract orally or as a poster in the session and at the time assigned by the EULAR Congress Programme Committee. We therefore recommend to register for the congress simultaneously with abstract submission.
Abstracts not adhering to these guidelines will be rejected. If you do not agree with any of these rules, you should not submit an abstract. The final decision about acceptance of an abstract will be taken by the EULAR Congress Programme Committee.
If you need to withdraw your abstract, a written statement reflecting the reasons for this decision must be sent to the EULAR Secretariat not later than 15 April 2008.
Abstracts accepted for the congress are subject to the "Abstract Embargo Rules".

RELATED INFORMATION

Abstract submission

Abstract submission system now closed!

Submission deadline was
31 January 2008 Midnight CET

Late Breaking Abstract submission

Late Breaking Abstract submission is now closed. Deadline was 28 March 2008.

Travel Bursaries

Abstract authors may apply for a travel bursary.