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MS3 2026

Abstract submission instructions

Font

Please use Arial, font size 12 for titles and 11 for all other text. Abstracts should be submitted in Microsoft Word.

Title

The title should be in bold, sentence case with no full stop at the end and no underlining, e.g.: Results from experiments in this field

Authors

A minimum of one of the authors must be a delegate attending the conference. First name, middle initials if required, and surname with no full stop at the end. Underline the name of the corresponding author. A comma should separate author names. Where authors are from a number of different institutions, the appropriate institution number from the affiliation list should be given as a superscript number immediately after each author's name,

e.g.: John Smith1, Susan Jones1, Bill Fisher2

An asterisk * should be used to link the corresponding author with their email address, if being included. If the authors are presenting an abstract on behalf of a study group, this information should not be included in the author list, but should appear in an Acknowledgements section.

Affiliations

Affiliations should include department, institute, town and country. Only provide one affiliation per author.

e.g.: 1Department, University, Town, State, USA

Main text

Abstracts should be submitted in in the following format:

Title, Background, Method, Results, Conclusion or Discussion and References.

• Should not be more than 300 words (excluding Title, Authors and references).

• Type the text unjustified, without hyphenating words at line breaks

• Use hard returns only to end headings and paragraphs, not to rearrange lines

• Use the Publisher reference format (see below)

• Greek and other special characters may be included. If you are unable to reproduce a particular special character, please type out the name of the symbol in full

• SI units should be used throughout (litre and molar are permitted, however)

• Web links (URLs) should be provided in full, including both the title of the site and the URL, in the following format: Mouse Tumour Biology Database [http://tumor.informatics.jax.org/cancer_links.html]

• Abbreviations should be used as sparingly as possible and should be defined when first used

Tables and Figures

No figures or tables in abstracts.

Acknowledgements

Brief acknowledgements may be included and should be placed after Conclusions and before the References. If the abstract is being presented on behalf of a study group, this information should be noted here rather than in the author list.

Consent to publish

If the abstract contains details relating to individual participants (for example a case report), written informed consent for the publication of these details must be obtained from the participants, and a statement to this effect must appear at the end of the abstract. Guidelines for consent statements can be found here:

http://www.biomedcentral.com/about/editorialpolicies. If the patient is deceased, consent for publication should be obtained from the next of kin; if the patient is under 16, consent should be obtained from the parent or guardian.

References (Maximum three references)

All references should be cited/called out consecutively in the text, using numbers in square brackets. Only papers that have been published, or are in press, or are available through public e-print/preprint servers should be included in the reference list. Journal abbreviations should follow MEDLINE standards. References should be laid out at the end of the abstract in Vancouver style and be preceded by the relevant reference number. Foreign/translated works are allowed in references, as long as they also follow Vancouver style. An example of a reference for a journal article follows.

1.    Chomczynski P, Sacchi N. Single-step method of RNA isolation by acid guanidinium thiocyanate-phenol-chloroform extraction. Anal Biochem. 1987; 162:156-159.