Required Abstract Components and Guidelines

Abstracts must follow these rules and guidelines in order to be considered for acceptance into the conference:

• All submissions must be received through the online abstract submission site by 11:59 p.m. Pacific Standard Time on September 10. Late submissions will not be accepted. E-mail and paper submissions will not be accepted.

• Accepted abstracts must contain (1) at least two authors in the author block, (2) a hypothesis or statement about the problem under investigation, (3) a statement of the experimental methods/methodology used, (4) essential results provided in summary form (even if preliminary), and (5) a conclusion. Abstracts missing any of the items above will be rejected.

• The presenting student is strongly encouraged to submit his or her own abstract. The system will only allow one abstract (poster or oral) submission per student/account holder.

• Students must obtain permission from their research mentors, coauthors, and program directors before submitting an abstract. Research mentors, coauthors, and program directors will receive a copy of the notification e-mail on October 4 indicating the status of the abstract.

• Only one abstract submission, poster or oral, per student is acceptable. Students must decide between submitting an abstract for poster presentation or oral presentation. If a student is listed as the presenting author on more than one abstract, all abstracts associated with the student will be automatically rejected.

• Students working in the same lab must independently submit original abstracts. Identical abstracts submitted by different students will be automatically rejected.

• Abstracts must be written by the student and reviewed/edited by the mentor. Mentors should not write the abstract.

• Only students can be presenting authors.

• Only one student, the individual listed first in the author block, can present the abstract.

• Citations, tables and keywords are not allowed in the abstract text and will be removed.

• Work must be proofread prior to submission. ABRCMS staff will not edit abstracts.
  

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