Your abstracts function is to show that you have a valuable contribution to the congress by presenting your abstract and to lure an audience to your talk.

Hereby, we will give you some guidelines to achieve these goals as best as possible. For the conference, you should use the following subheadings:

  1. Introduction
  2.  Materials and Methods
  3. Results
  4. Conclusion

Introduction

Background information: give the information that is useful for introducing you research. This background information must make it clear to the reader why you are asking your research question. The research question/the aim of the study: State the question either as a question or as a hypothesis. Use key terms that will re-appear in the answer to the question in your conclusion

Material and Methods

Name the materials used and methods applied in your research or study. Describe the approach or the study design, including both independent and dependent variables and use of statistics.

Results

Describe the results obtained based on the research or study question and the methods applied.

The conclusion

The answer:
Give a clear summary of the outcome to the research or study question.
Discussion:
Only if important for your research, state some conditions that could have influenced your data. Keep it as short and concise as possible.
Implication: It is of great importance to state the implication or relevance of your research or study. Do not use words like ‘we intend to study’ or ‘work will be done to prove  ...’ etc.

Key words

The most important words of your research (±3), this can be your subject, method, etc

Word count

Your abstract should not exceed the maximum of 400 words.