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submission procedure for the ASA 2008 Annual Meeting
scientific papers is the same as that used in 2007.
For 2008, ASA has once again partnered with Marathon
Multimedia, which specializes in online abstract
submissions.
The abstract submission program will be accessible
on the Annual Meeting section of ASA’s Web
site <www.ASAhq.org/AnnMtg>
by clicking on the “Submit an Abstract”
link. All accepted abstracts will be published in
their entirety in electronic format, and a summary
of the abstract will be published in the 2008 Annual
Meeting program book. Submission instructions are
available on the ASA Web site and will not be mailed
to authors. It will not be necessary to request
a packet of abstract submission material.
The following outlines the 2008 scientific papers
submission process:
• The submission Web site will
be available in early January 2008. The deadline
for submitting all abstracts is Tuesday, April
1, 2008, at 11:59 p.m. Central Standard Time.
• To submit your abstract using the online
submission form, you must be using Netscape Navigator
or Communicator, version 7.0 or higher, or Microsoft
Internet Explorer, version 5.2 or higher.
• All submission instructions will be available
on the ASA Web site and accessible from any point
during the submission process. No separate submission
packet will be mailed.
• Authors may input and revise submissions
until the deadline or until the abstract is officially
submitted by clicking the “Submit”
button. Entries will be checked automatically
for completeness once officially submitted. After
the closing deadline, entries that are not in
compliance with all of the submission requirements
will be assumed to be in draft format and will
not be considered by the graders.
• A brief summary of the study must be included
with the submission and, for abstracts that are
accepted, will be published in the 2008 Annual
Meeting program book. The summary will not be
considered when the abstracts are graded. The
September supplement to Anesthesiology
will consist of a CD-ROM containing the full text
and graphics of all accepted abstracts.
• The use of scientific characters and common
style elements such as bold, italic and underline
will be permitted. Font specification, with some
limitations, will be available.
The ASA Web site will contain more complete information
regarding the process for submitting abstracts. |