Abstracts which exceed the 500-word limit may be truncated. Authors are encouraged to keep the abstracts succinct, to avoid long author lists, and to list only one institutional affiliation per author to avoid exceeding the word limit. Authors should use an English-language keyboard. If absolutely necessary, special instructions regarding formatting not covered in the following examples may be given to the Programme Organiser. For example, the author may wish to indicate the need for a Greek letter, a mathematical symbol, or other special formatting that is essential to the scientific content of the abstract.
Special instructions are tedious to process, so judicious usage is appreciated.
If special formatting is essential for scientific clarity, authors may imbed a limited amount of formatting information within the text of abstracts using special tags as detailed below. To display text in italics, bold, underscored, superscript, or subscript, authors should add the appropriate tags immediately before and after the characters to be formatted. If any author has a potential conflict of interest or has received financial benefit from this study, a statement to this effect must be included at the end of the abstract. Submitted URLs will be published as part of the author's abstract.