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GUT 2003
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Submission of Abstracts
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| GUIDELINES 1. Delegates are invited to submit papers for poster presentation. Five of the best submissions for the Young Investigator’s Award shall be selected for Oral presentations. 2. Only abstracts received by 15 July 2003 and accompanied by appropriate registration fees will be considered. 3. Abstracts must be in English. 4. The title (in bold full capitals) should be concise yet bear sufficient details to identify the nature of the study. 5. The name of the main author should be underlined. Institution from which the work originated, city and country should be included. Omit degrees and institutional appointments. 6. The body of the abstracts should be organised in the following sequence: Objective(s), Methodology (if pertinent), Results (graphs are permitted), Discussion and Conclusion(s). Abstracts which do not include Results and Conclusion(s) will be rejected. Abbreviations, if used, must be included in full at some point in the text. Abbreviate measurements (mm, kcal) as recommended in the Style Manual of Biological Sciences and System International (S.I) units should be used. 7. Drugs should be given in generic terms (in small letters) at first mention in the text, to be followed by the proprietary name (capitalised) if desired, e.g. ranitidine (Zantac). 8. The entire abstract must be submitted according to the format given in the sample abstract, in letter quality (Courier New, 12 font size, single spacing), typed within the space provided, as close as possible to the margins. Do not centralise short abstracts. Do not fold the abstract. Abstract must fit in the space provided. Submit abstract in the abstract form and also in a 3.5” high-density disk in MS Word 6.0 or higher version. Abstracts which do not conform to these guidelines will be automatically rejected. 9. Notification regarding acceptance will be mailed on or about 10 August 2003. 10. All accepted abstracts will be published in a supplement of the Medical Journal of Malaysia. |
