Abstract Submission Instructions & Guidelines

The Scientific Committee of the 20th World Congress of Fertility and Sterility welcomes the submission of abstracts for free communication (oral) and poster.

Deadline for receipts of abstracts extended: 15th March 2010

All abstracts MUST be submitted online: http://www.abstractserver.com/iffs2010/absmgm
Abstract language: English

TOPICS

Note: A maximum of three topics related to your abstract can be indicated.

Criteria for abstract submission

Abstracts should meet the following criteria.

• The abstract text cannot exceed 2500 characters (including space, excluding title and authors).
• Abstracts must be written in English, explained abbreviations may be used.
• The abstract text must not contain any information about the presenters or institutions involved
  to facilitate the blind reviewing process.
• References are not required in abstracts. If supplied, they are included in the character count.
• Although case reports will be considered by the scientific committee, authors should be aware
  that such abstracts will be given a low priority.
• Generic drug names should be preferred. The use of trade names is discouraged, and should only be used when necessary.
• The author is required to indicate the main source of funding of the study at the end of the abstract.
• The use of tables and graphs is not allowed.

Presentation types
Authors must indicate whether they will accept to give an oral presentation if their abstract should be
chosen. The final decision about the type of presentation suitable for the program will be made by the Scientific Committee.

General information on the abstract submission
Once the electronic submission is concluded the first author will receive an automatic confirmation by email with an abstract number to which he/she will need to refer for any inquiries.

Attention: if you do not receive an automatic message after submission please contact immediately iffs2010@pharmaservice.de

After the reviewing process the abstracts will be allocated to the scientific sessions by the Scientific Committee and all submitters will be informed about their acceptance by email.
Authors will be notified of the decision of the Scientific Committee end of April 2010. 

Please note that the submission of an abstract does not replace the registration to the congress. The inclusion in the scientific program and publication of the selected abstract(s) is subject to the payment of the registration fee of the presenting author. After the abstract submission is closed all submitters will be invited to register for the Congress until end of April 2010 at the latest.

Technical information for Speakers

Preparation of presentations
Speakers are kindly asked to deliver their presentation at the preview centre at the latest two hours before the speech is given. In the preview centre the presentations are uploaded at the “Check-In-Stations”. If there are any changes necessary, they should be done on the installed “Preview-Stations” prior to “Check-In”.

It is not possible to bring your presentation directly to the lecture hall. All presentations have to be delivered to the preview centre. In the preview centre our competent technical staff will be at your disposal.

Format of your presentation
Presentations should be saved as “*.ppt“ (=PowerPoint) or “*.pps“ (=PowerPoint Slideshow)
            •  file and movies as separate files on the data medium.

The preview centre is optimized for MS Power Point 2007 (Office 2007) and “*.pdf” (Adobe Acrobat)-files. Uploading of “DVD-Movies” is not supported.
For MAC-Users: For embedded movies please use the possibility of “Quick time” to save the movie in “*.mpeg 1(2)”-, “*.DIVx”-, or “*.avi” format. Please try out the proper functionality of your presentation as soon as possible in the preview centre.
The supported data media are: CD, DVD (as Data-storage-medium) and USBMemory (Stick).
All needed files – also the movie files!!! – have to be on the data medium.
Presentations can also be taken off speakers’ notebooks at the preview centre.
As format for embedded movies “MPEG2 – movies” are preferred (but can also be *.avi, *.wmv ). If Codecs are used, the Code packages DIVx in the current version, which can be found under www.divx.com, should be chosen.

Poster presentation
There will be three poster sessions during the IFFS Meeting in Munich:

The presenting authors should be available to stand with their poster during mentioned poster presentations.
This is your opportunity to share your work with an international audience interested in your research.

As soon as your poster is confirmed you will receive further detailed information.