Instructions to Authors
• Link to <Poster session list>
• Link to <Oral Presentations>
Invited papers
Instructions for Invited Speakers:
• The proceedings of the IV International
Symposium on Animal Biology of Reproduction (ISABR 2012) will be published
as a special issue of Animal Reproduction (AR).
• The maximum length of each manuscript (review, mini
review or original article) should be less than 40 double-spaced pages,
including references, tables, and figures.
• Manuscripts will be peer-reviewed and edited before
publication. Examples of published papers from the previous ISABR can be found
in Anim. Reprod. 3(2):81-159, 2006, Anim. Reprod. 6(1):1-368, 2009, and Anim.
Reprod. 7(3):97-346, 2010. (http://www.cbra.org.br).
• For writing instructions, see the “Instructions to
Authors” at the AR website (http://www.cbra.org.br).
• Invited manuscripts should be submitted through the
E-mail <animreprod@cbra.org.br>.
• The deadline for manuscript submission is Jun15,
2012.
Abstracts
Instructions to Authors for Posters and Oral
presentations:
• The proceedings of the IV International
Symposium on Animal Biology of Reproduction (ISABR 2012) 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. Abstracts should be complete and contain the
objectives, methods, results and conclusions.
• Authors may choose to present their abstracts as a
poster or as an oral 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 16 abstracts for presentation in the four Oral sessions
and will notify all authors of their decision.
• Schedules for poster and oral presentations will be
provided to all presenting authors on September 20th, 2012.
• The Organizing Committee regrets to be unable to
provide financial support or travel grants to presenters.
Abstract format and submission:
• Abstracts will be received from May 1st to Jun
15th, 2012 through the ISABR website by the online system.
• Abstracts should be written in English.
• Only one poster per presenting author will be
accepted.
• Authors will be able to check the status of the
abstract and the status of the registration payment directly on the Animal
Reproduction website (www.cbra.org.br/publicacoes/animalreproduction).
• Registration of the presenting author must be done
before the abstract submission. Accepted abstracts will be confirmed/published
only after the registration fee payment by presenting author. All accepted
abstracts will be included in the Symposium’s proceedings (to be published in 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 2010:
http://www.cbra.org.br/portal/publicacoes/ar/2010/arjs2010.html).
• 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 (see available example).
• For more writing instructions, see the “Instructions to Authors” < http://www.cbra.org.br>
• Abstracts should be submitted through the ISABR website by the on-line system.
• Posters presentations
• Poster dimension should be 0.90 m (width) by 1.00 m (height)
• Posters will be affixed to poster boards.
• There will be two posters sessions. The list and the order of the abstracts
presentation will be provided later.
• Poster numbers will correspond to the abstract page number in the proceedings.
For your convenience, the location of your poster will be indicated in the
appropriate poster session by a label containing the poster number, title and
authors.
• Authors presenting posters MUST be present in the designated area during the
time period scheduled for the poster session to facilitate discussion with other
delegates.
• Oral Presentations
• Presentations must be delivered in the English language.
• Only presentations in PowerPoint will be accepted.
• Please bring your presentation on digital media such as a pen drive, CD or
DVD. Individual laptop computers MAY NOT be connected to projectors.
• Presentations should be uploaded to the computer in the business office of the
Grande Hotel at your earliest convenience upon arrival; there will be a CBRA
staff member to help you with the uploading procedure.
• We have allotted a total of 15 minutes for your presentation. This includes
the questioning period. Therefore, you should plan your presentation so that it
will not exceed 12 minutes in order to leave three minutes for questions. If
your presentation exceeds 12 minutes, the time for questions will be shortened
accordingly. Under no circumstances will you be allowed to speak for more than
15 minutes. We strongly recommend that you carefully plan and rehearse your
presentation to ensure that you will stay within this time limit.
• Before the session for your scheduled presentation begins, please provide the
presenting author name to the session chairperson.