Mac Users: if you have trouble submitting your abstract, try submitting from a PC. If you are still having issues, please contact the Conference Secretariat.

Ensure your abstract text is less than 250 words as the system will not accept submissions over this limit. The word count does NOT include your title, authoring or cited references. Have your abstract open on your computer to enable you to cut and paste it into the submission system.

Images can be added by clicking on the Image symbol in the text editing area. Make sure that you add the image on the very bottom of your abstract

• saved and uploaded as PNG or JPG

• not wider than 1000 pixels

• not larger than 500kb

1. Select the presentation type and category

2. Provide some keywords to assist in categorisation of your abstract

3. Enter the title of your abstract. Please type the title in sentence case (that is lowercase with only the first letter of the first word in capitals) and without any punctuation. A correctly formatted example follows: Title of my presentation for the conference

4. Enter the name of all authors and their organisations and indicate the presenting author by ticking the relevant box

5. Type or cut and paste the text of your abstract into the relevant field. Please ensure that abstract is no more than 250 words. (Does not include title, authoring or cited references)

6. The Societies make available a number of awards at the Annual Scientific Meeting. Tick the relevant boxes to be considered for an Award. For further details on the awards, click here.

7. Preview your abstract, make any changes required and finalise your submission and return to your dashboard

8. You will receive an email confirmation that your abstract has been successfully submitted. Please check your email junk file in case it has been captured there.

9. Should you wish to make any changes to your abstract after you have submitted it, please log onto your online registration dashboard. Click on the "View Submission" then "Preview/edit abstract".

**Please note you can only make changes to your abstract until the submission deadline, any changes after this should be sent to the Conference Secretariat.

It is a condition of having your Abstract accepted and included in the Conference Program that you are a registered and paid delegate.

The registration system encourages you to register before submitting your abstract, but it is not essential—you can submit an abstract without completing the registration process at this time.

The Organising Committee will review all submissions before selecting the presentations which will be included in the conference program.

Once the reviewing is complete, the conference organisers will notify abstract presenters of their acceptance. Specific presentation instructions will be included in the notification.

Closer to the commencement of the conference, the interactive program will be published to this website along with hyperlinks to the accepted abstract submissions. If you do not wish to have your abstract published, please select ‘No’ under the question “If accepted, do you consent for your abstract to be published by the conference committee?” during the abstract submission process.