Annual Meeting - Jahreskongress - Congrès Annuel
Basel, Kongresszentrum, 12.-13.September 2013

SGG Schweizerische Gesellschaft für Gastroenterologie - SSG Société Suisse de Gastro-entérologie -
SGVC Schweizerische Gesellschaft für Viszeralchirurgie - SSCV Société Suisse de Chirurgie Viscérale -
SASL Swiss Association for the Study of the Liver

Guidelines

All abstracts have to be submitted through the online abstract submission system.

Abstracts must be prepared according to the following guidelines.

Registration of the corresponding author

Please note that the corresponding author MUST register before submitting an abstract in order to obtain a password to enter the abstract submission area of the site.

Registration for corresponding author

Title

Please use Upper and Lower case letters for your title.
DO NOT USE ALL CAPITALS.

Authors

Author or authors' names: full first name(s), middle initial(s), full family name

Affiliations

Affiliation details of all authors: department; institution / hospital; city; country (if relevant)

Abstracts

The entire abstract including the title (in bold, upper and lower case characters), authors (not bold!), affiliation (not bold), abstract text, figure(s) and table(s) must be submitted as a pdf file.
This file will be used for the abstract book (printed as a supplement of the journal "Swiss Medical Weekly").
Please divide your abstract in 4 paragraphs: background, methods, results, conclusions.
Write your abstract in a text editing program (e.g. Microsoft Word)
Use one A4 page (one page is the maximum allowed length of abstract !!!), set margins to 25mm on all sides.
The only fonts to be used are Arial or Helvetica.
Minimum fonts size = 16 (This is very important, because for printing the abstract book, the abstracts will be reduced to 50% of their size in order to print 4 abstracts per A4 page. If you use smaller fonts, your abstracts will not be readable in the abstract book.)
Integrate all tables and figures in the word document.
Safe the document as a .doc file.
Convert the .doc file into a .pdf file and safe this pdf file either using Adobe Acrobat or the program FreePDF (Get FreePDF). You will have to submit the pdf file of your abstract later during the submission process.

Submit the abstract using the online submission system.

Evaluation

A group of abstract reviewers will score the abstracts

Authors of accepted abstracts will be invited to present their work orally (10-minutes presentation) or as a poster. A final decision of the presentation format will be made by the Scientific Committee.

Eingabefrist für Abstracts / Délai de soumission des résumés / Abstract submission deadline: 31.5.2013