Abstract information: Writing Guide to Authors

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Abstract information: Writing Guide to Authors
I. Writing Guide to Authors
It is the policy of the 32nd Congress of the SSAI to ensure balance, independence, objectivity, and
scientific rigor in the Congress. It is expected that your presentation will be unbiased, based on the
best available evidence and all elements of the presentation will be free from the control of
commercial interests. Therefore all authors presenting abstracts/posters are expected to disclose
any real or apparent conflict(s) of interest that may have a direct bearing on the subject
matter of the presentation. This includes, but is not limited to, factors such as financial
relationships, advisory positions, and receipt of payments, expenses, grants, or departmental
support, and membership of other organisations. The intent of the policy is not to prevent
speakers/chairpersons with a potential conflict of interest from their contribution in the congress but
to identify openly eventual conflicts of interest so that the participants of the Congress may form
their own judgements about a possible bias of the presentation. You will have to give details in the
abstract submission system. The eventual conflicts of interest have to be shown also in the
presentation of the abstract as a poster or oral presentation.
Studies involving animal or human subjects must be conducted according to the European
regulation authorities for ethics in human or animal research. A statement is required
indicating that an independent Ethics Committee (IEC), Ethical Review Board (ERB) or Ethics
Committee has approved prospective clinical studies and/or that an Institutional Review Board
(IRB) for animal experimentation approved the study. If such an approval was not obtained, the
abstract will be rejected.
1. Typing and formatting
1. The abstract must be written on the template that is provided by the abstract handling system.
The template will be send to you as an email attachment when you register to the system for
the first time.
2. The abstract should be written in English. Use British spelling, e.g. anaesthesia, oesophagus,
crystalloid. However, you can easily eliminate many typing errors and misspelling by using the
spell-check feature of your word processing software. The layout of the abstract should be the
following:
3. Use Arial font with a size of 11 point.
4. Title Box must only include the Title. Total number of characters allowed including spacing is
150. Use BOLD CAPITAL letters.
5. Write the body of the abstract into the Text Box, starting a new line for each subheading. The
subheadings should be typed in Bold case. Following subheadings should be used (as
applies):
Introduction, Methods, Results, Discussion, (References).
6. The total number of characters allowed including spacing and eventual table text is 2800.
7. Use the SI-system for all units of measurement (e.g. ml, kg, kPa) with the exception of mmHg
for blood pressures. With two items or more, negative exponents should be used
(e.g. ml • min -1 ). The number of abbreviations should be minimised, and they must be defined
the first time they are used.

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8. One table within the borders of the abstract is allowed and encouraged where the results are
best represented in table format. The table must be editable, preferably in Word format. Text
size in the table should be no smaller than 10 point. Be sure that all text in the table is
readable. No illustrations are allowed in the abstract.
9. You may use no more than three relevant references, numbered ([1]) in order of appearance in
the text and listed at the end of the text. If you use references, they should have the following
sequence: author(s), title, journal (as abbreviated in Index Medicus), year, volume and pages.
For example: Latimer RD et al. Inhaled nitric oxide in the management of pulmonary
hypertension after mitral valve surgery. Br J Anaesth 1994; 72: 185-9. The text size of the
reference(s) should be no smaller than 10 point and the font should be Arial (or similar).
10. Key words are not needed