Submitting Your Abstract

Each submission should adhere to the abstract template provided and the document must be a Microsoft Word format. Abstracts submitted in other formats will be declined. Abstracts must be submitted online through the ISBCR portal and will not be accepted by fax, email or post. An automatic acknowledgement email will be sent once your abstract submission is complete.

 

General

• Presenting authors must be specified at the time of abstract submission. This is the person all correspondence will be sent to, and, if accepted, this is the name that will appear in the conference programme. Authors must seek the approval of all co-authors before submitting an abstract for consideration and supply all names and affiliations

• Pay careful attention to your wording and grammar as what you submit will be made available to conference delegates in the digital programme.

• All abstracts MUST use People-First Language. Abstracts that do not use People-First Language will be rejected.

 

Formatting Requirements:

Title

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The title should be:

• Maximum 12 words

• Arial font, 14 pt size

• Left-justified alignment

• Sentence case – first letter capitalised with subsequent letters in lower case, not all capitals and not title case

• Abbreviations should not be used in the title.

• Trade names cannot be mentioned in the title. However, trade names in brackets will be accepted in the body of the text.

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Authors

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The list of authors should be formatted as follows:

• First Name Surname, with each author separated by a comma and the presenting author in bold, e.g., Jane Doe, John Smith, Joe Schmo.

• Arial font, 11 pt size

• Left-justified alignment

Authors can submit more than one abstract. However. when selecting your presenting author, we ask that all submissions reflect ISBCR 2025s commitment to diversity, equity and inclusion by encouraging a mix of presenting authors and speakers in terms of gender, ethnicity, career stage, institutional affiliation.

 

Affiliation(s)

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At least one affiliation for each of the listed authors should be included, formatted as follows:

• Arial font, 11 pt size

• Left-justified alignment, italics

• Affiliations should include department, institute, town and country.

• Affiliations should be numbered sequentially in the order mentioned in the author list and NOT duplicated.

• Affiliations should be separated using a semi-colon.

• Each affiliation must be assigned to an author using Arabic numerals in superscript, e.g:

Jane Doe , John Smith , Joe Schmo

  University of Auckland, Auckland, New Zealand;  Monash University, Melbourne, Australia

 

Abstract Text

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• Arial font, 11 pt size

• Single spaced

• Justified alignment

• Maximum of 250 words (this word count excludes the title, author details, conflicts of interest and funding statements).

• Abstracts should be structured, and contain the following subheadings: Objective, Methods, Results (please be specific) and Conclusion.

• Do not use footnotes or superscript numbers within the body of your abstract.

• Pictures, tables and figures including graphs, are NOT allowed.

 

Disclosure Statement

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All abstracts MUST be followed by a statement clearly declaring all potential conflicts of interest and funding sources related to the submitted work. If authors identify no conflicts of interest, they should declare this accordingly, e.g., “The authors declare no conflict of interest in relation to this work.”

 

Review Criteria

Before being accepted for presentation or poster, abstracts are reviewed by a scientific and editorial committee consisting of conference organisers, editors and peer reviewers. All submissions will be reviewed against the following criteria:

• Relevance to the themes and aims of ISBCR 2025;

• Originality of the work;

• Overall quality, and scientific/clinical value.