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Abstract submission guidelines

General information

  • Abstracts submission deadline will be 27th of April of 2025.
  • All abstracts must be submitted via the Congress website form. Abstracts received otherwise will not be accepted.
  • You will receive email confirmation that your abstract has been received and will be given access to the website private area». If you find any error, please contact us at congreso.cientifico@seorl.net.
  • After the abstract submission deadline, no changes will be accepted except for typographic errors in names of authors and/or institutions, for which the deadline is the 11th of May of 2025 at 23:59h. After that, no corrections of any kind can be made.

27th of April of 2025

Abstract submission deadline (non-extendable)

General guidelines

  • A first author is allowed to submit a maximum of three abstracts, regardless of the format.
  • The number of authors is limited to:
    • Instructional courses: 3
    • Other presentations: 6
  • Abstracts cannot be submitted in two or more formats (oral/video/poster). In that case, it will be changed to poster presentation.
  • Both the first author of each abstract and the presenting author of the abstract at the Congress, must be formally registered as Congress attendees.
  • Be sure that the full name of the Hospital or University is correctly included in the ‘affiliation’ box.
  • In the submission form, you can check, if you wish, your abstract to opt to some of the SEORL awards. Be aware that it must meet the requirements you will find in the “Awards“ section of this website

Penalties

Failure to follow any of these rules may entitle SEORL to cancel the presentation at the Congress.

Authors who do not present their communication or instruction course at the Congress without just cause may be sanctioned by SEORL-CCC, and may not submit any communication during the following two Congresses of this Society.

Format guidelines

  • Abstracts can be submitted in any of the following two languages: English and Spanish, and the presentation must be necessarily in the same language used for abstract submission.
  • Abstract «Title» is limited to 250 characters.
  • Abstracts must not exceed 3500 characters.
  • To ensure stylistic consistency, authors are kindly asked:
    • Do not leave a blank line between paragraphs in the abstract
    • Do not include bulleted lists in the abstract.
  • Be sure that the full name of the Hospital or University is correctly included in the ‘affiliation’ box, but do not include it in the abstract to facilitate the anonymity of the evaluation. It is important that this information is not included either in the Title or in the Abstract.
  • Any figures or statistics that will be presented at the Congress must be included in the abstracts.

SEORL-CCC DOES NOT CHECK ABSTRACTS FOR SPELLING OR GRAMMATICAL ERRORS of the abstracts. All data included in the abstract will be published as received in both the programme and abstract book Please use the spelling checker before submitting the texts.

Specific guidelines for each abstract type

Oral/poster/video

  • Manuscripts are required to meet international organization guidelines: title, introduction, material and methods, results, discussion/conclusion.
  • Manuscripts based on a small number of observations or clinical trials that are not innovative must be sent as poster.
  • Conceptual oral communications could exceptionally be admitted.
  • The communications with the highest evaluations may be selected for a featured presentation and be eligible for an award, as long as the author has selected that option when sending the abstract.
  • Guidelines for the preparation of the presentation during the congress will be sent after abstracts acceptance by the Scientific Review Committee.

Instructional Courses

  • Courses will be selected according to their educational interest, always paying attention to the quality of the course.
  • Priority will be given to highest-rated courses in the past.
  • Each author will be limited to only one course, being the main director or not. Only three presenting directors are accepted for each course.
  • The technical guidelines for the instructional courses will be sent after acceptance by the Scientific and Review Committee.

Research Forum

  • Manuscripts submitted must be original and not already published in whole or partially.
  • 6 manuscripts will be selected for the Research Forum session. In the event more proposals are received, the best 5 manuscripts will be selected and the committee will decide how to disseminate the non-selected ones. Preference will be given to abstracts on funded research projects (FIS, CICYT, Comunidades…) or from PhD dissertations.
  • The selected abstracts will be presented during the Research forum session of the official programme.
  • Abstracts must be submitted through the online submission form», by sending the abstract that will be published in the abstracts book. Once selected to participate in the session, the full paper must be emailed to congreso.premios@seorl.net in either Word or PDF format (8-10 pages, single-spaced, 12-point font), before the 20th of July of 2025 at 23:59h
  • Manuscripts must meet international organization guidelines: title, introduction, material and methods, results, discussion/conclusion.
  • Only papers by residents or specialists who have finished residency within the last 15 years will be selected.

Opt to awards

In the submission form you will be able to check if you wish your abstract to opt to some of the SEORL awards. Be aware that it must meet the requirements you will find in the Awards section of this website.

In the “Awards“section of this website, you can find the guidelines and deadlines to opt to the awards.

Do not forget to check the information uploaded in this section to participate!