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• Abstracts will be published dependent upon payment of registration fees by no later than March 30, 2006.
• If you are unable to submit abstracts via the website, please contact the Secretariat.
• ABSTRACT SUBMITTED BY FAX WILL NOT BE ACCEPTED.
• Submission of an abstract acknowledges your acceptance for the abstract to be published in the official Meeting Abstract Book.
• Presenting authors of abstracts must be registered participants. Registration should be received at the Secretariat by March 30, 2006 to ensure the inclusion of the abstract in the Abstract Book and in the Final Program.
• Abstracts must be original and must not be or have been published or presented at any other meeting prior to the 24th Annual Meeting of ESPID.
• Abstracts must be submitted in English.
• The abstract must be received by the announced deadline. Abstracts received after the deadline will not be considered.
• The Scientific Committee will determine whether the abstract will be accepted as oral or poster presentation, with consideration given to the author’s preference.
• ESPID will publish all accepted abstracts in an abstract book and online (open access) for a period of at least 5 years. The abstract published online will include the e-mail address of the presenting author. As a condition of submission, ESPID requires you to agree to such publication and to surrender any copyright over the abstract as submitted to ESPID.

ABSTRACT PREPARATION

• Title of abstract must be in upper and lower case.
• Author(s) names me be in upper case (e.g. J J C SMITH)
• Abstracts should contain no more than 280 words, including acknowledgements.
  (Abstracts exceeding this limit will not be included for print.
• Abstracts should clearly state:
  Background and aims
  Methods
  Results
  Conclusions
• Abstracts stating “data will be discussed in the presentation” will NOT be accepted.
• Use only standard abbreviations. Please special or unusual abbreviations in parentheses after the full word the first time it appears.
• Use generic names of drugs. Express numbers as numerals
• When submitting your abstract, we will need to receive confirmation if the work presented in your abstract was supported by an award from ESPID.

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