LB Abstract Submission

• The institution(s) of the authors should be indicated fully with the “department” and “institution” names while avoiding any abbreviations such as Dept., Univ., Inst., Hosp., etc. The department and institution details, city and country should be written with lower case while the initials of each word in capitals.
  • Enter each affiliation only once: i.e., if there are 5 authors and 3 of whom are from same affiliation and 2 of whom are from another, you will have 2 institutions, NOT 5. However, if there are 2 or more departments at the same institution represented, they should be entered separately.
  • If any of the authors have more than one affiliation, enter both affiliations in a compounded style as one affiliation: i.e., if there are 5 authors and 2 of whom are from same affiliation (Institute A), 2 of whom are from another (Institute B), and 1 of whom is from both affiliations (Institutes A and B), you will have 3 institutions, NOT 5 or NOT 2. (First institution: Institute A, second one: Institute B and the third one: Institute A & Institute B).
  • Please make sure to include the City and Country information at the end for each institution. For US, please make sure to enter the country information as “United States” or “US” after writing the state name or its abbreviation. For UK, please write the country name as “United Kingdom” or “UK”.

• First, middle and last names of all the authors must be fully indicated correctly and in the right order. Please pay attention to match the institutions to the right authors, and make sure that you select the “presenting author” correctly.

• Please enter the presenting author’s contact information correctly.
  It’s highly important for you to ensure that the e-mail address of the presenting author is entered correctly, as all communication regarding abstract acceptance, any required adjustments, and scheduling will be sent to the presenting author via e-mail by the Congress Organising Secretariat.

• Abstract titles may contain a maximum of 250 characters.
• Titles should not be written in all capitals.

• Abstract Body: Abstract body should not exceed 250 words. The title of the abstract, authors, institutions and keywords are not included in this limit, and those should not be entered in this section.
• Abstract body should consist of the four sections given below:

– Background and Aim
– Methods
– Results
– Conclusions

• In order to be compatible with the universal coding system, only the special characters indicated on the system should be used. Please note that abstracts which include other special characters may not be displayed correctly in the publications due to the coding systems.

• Minimum 1 keyword is required and maximum 6 keywords can be entered.
• All keywords should be separated with comma (,). Please do NOT use comma for anything else in the keywords section.

• Images, tables, diagrams and graphs are allowed. You can only upload one image and/or one table.

• The submitting authors are required to preview the abstract at this step and confirm the preview at this step.
• If you have any comments and/or additional information to be shared with the Scientific Committees, you may enter these details in the comment box.

• Some questions about profession, career level, and possible award applications are being asked at this step. It is required to answer all questions before submitting your abstract. Please select/check your answer and then click on the “Choose”button for each one.
• If you have not completed all required sections of your abstract, you won’t see the submission button. Only after completing all required fields, the submission button will be enabled for you.