Submission Guidelines
- Abstracts must consist of text only. No pictures, graphs, tables, or link will be accepted.
- Abstracts will only be accepted through this website until March 1, 2017, 11:59 p.m. EST.
- Each student may be the primary presenter on only one poster abstract.
- Authors presenting their work at the 2017 Conference must be registered for the conference.
- The first author is solely responsible for presentation of accepted abstracts. Co-authors or substitutes are not permitted.
- Ethical and Regulatory Requirements: The first author is required to provide assurance of compliance with the following ethical and regulatory requirements:
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Research involving human subjects must be conducted in accordance with the guidelines provided by the Declaration of Helsinki and in adherence of applicable national and local human subjects requirements.
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Research involving animal subjects must be conducted in accordance with international standards for animal treatment and care.
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All coauthors must read and approve the final, submitted version of the abstract and consent to listing their name as an author.
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Submission of previously published copyrighted materials will not be accepted.
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The first author is responsible for disclosing any conflict of interest on behalf of all listed authors. A conflict of interest exists if financial interests or other opportunities for tangible personal benefit may exert a substantial and improper influence on a researcher’s professional judgment in designing, conducting, or reporting research.
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- The abstract must consist of the following components:
- For completed scientific research: purpose, methods, results, and conclusions
- For scientific research that is in progress: purpose, objectives, methods, preliminary findings
- For a proposed study: purpose, objectives, proposed methods
- For a literature review: introduction/background, purpose/research questions, method of literature search, conclusions
- For a case report: background, case details, and conclusions
- For instrument validation: description of instrument, methods, results (reliability and validity), and conclusions
- For completed scientific research: purpose, methods, results, and conclusions
- The abstract must be 250 words or less.
Priority will be given to those presentations that describe completed research. Additional evaluation criteria include:
- Adherence to submission guidelines
- Significance of research
- Methodologically sound
- Quantitative description of results
- Conclusions that are substantiated by the results
Poster Template
- Size: 4 x 4 feet
- Sections (abstract, purpose, methods, results, conclusions….)
- Use of bullets and short phrases
- Graphs better than tables better than text
- Simple clean design—too many colors and fonts can distract from the message
- Fonts and sizes
Fonts
Times New Roman, Arial, Century
Font Sizes
Title: 72 point
Body: 20-24 point