Instructions to Authors for Posters and Platform short presentations:

• The proceedings of the III International Symposium on Animal Biology of Reproduction (ISABR 2010) will be published as a special issue of Animal Reproduction (AR).
• Participants are encouraged to submit their original research results on any topic related to animal or human reproductive biology. Contents of abstracts should have not been published or presented previously at any major scientific meeting.
• Authors may choose to present their abstracts as a poster or as a short platform presentation (12 min + 3 min for questions). Each abstract will be peer-reviewed by the members of the Scientific Committee. The Scientific Committee will select 12 abstracts for presentation on the three Platform sessions and will notify all authors of their decision. Abstracts not selected for platform presentation will be automatically assigned for poster presentation.
• All presenting authors will be notified of the schedules for poster and short platform presentations on September 30th, 2010.
• The Organizing Committee regrets to be unable to provide financial support or travel grants to presenters.

Abstract preparation and submission:

Abstracts will be received from May 15^th to June 28^th, 2010 through the ISABR 2010 online system <Online Submission>.

• Abstracts should be written in English.
• Only one abstract per presenting author will be accepted.
• Authors will be notified of abstract acceptance on July 14th, 2010.
• The presenting author of an accepted abstract must register to the Symposium before August 15th to guarantee publication of the abstract in the Symposium's proceedings (a special issue of the journal Animal Reproduction).
• The abstract must be prepared using Microsoft Word (click here to see examples of abstracts presented at the ISABR 2008).

General instructions for preparation of abstracts:

• Please format abstract as a single A4 page (210 mm wide, 297 mm long) with 2.0 cm margins, single space, and single column. Title, authors' names, affiliation, and the main text must be centered. Please prepare text using an 11-pt Times New Roman font.
• Tables, figures, and black-and-white photographs can be included in the abstract but must fit within a single page. Laser quality printing resolution is required (minimum 300 dpi).
• The title, author's names and affiliations should be centered on successive lines. Presenting author's name should be underlined. Author's names and affiliations should be typed in mixed cases (click here to see an example).

• The text should be organized to include Introduction, Materials and Methods, Results and Discussion, and References. The English accuracy is entirely the author's responsibility.

• Abbreviations must be defined in full the first time they appear in the text. Please use the "Système Internationale (SI)" for units of measurement.

• Identify the references by consecutive numbers in parentheses in the text and list them sequentially as the last segment of the abstract (click here to see  an example).

• For further instructions, please see the "Instructions to Authors".