Procedure

Please follow the instructions listed on the abstract submission site. For each submission, you must select an Abstract Category (as outlined below), complete the presenter contact information and include the abstract text. Please note that by submitting an abstract for EAVPT2012, you are confirming that if the abstract is accepted, you or one of your co-authors has every intention of attending the 12th EAVPT Congress to be held in Noordwijkerhout, the Netherlands, 8th to 12th of July, 2012. 

Authors: Please provide all required information for the presenting author including a valid email address.  A presenter must be selected in order for abstracts to be considered. Please enter all additional authors in the order they should appear in the supplemental issue of the Journal of Veterinary Pharmacology and Therapeutics. The abstract submission form will guide you through the process of entering the author(s) information, including your preference to present an oral short communication or a poster. Please note that a maximum of 2 oral presentations will be considered for every presenting author (with exceptions for invited speakers) while no limitations are set to the total number of submissions as co-author.

Abstract Content

Abstracts must describe previously unpublished work.  Abstracts previously published for other national or international meetings will not be accepted.

Outline of the abstract

The abstract text should be typed single-spaced (Times Roman 11 pt) and should not exceed 500 words although 350 to 400 words is preferred.
Title: The title should be informative and cover the main objectives of the research described. Please start each word of the title with a capital letter. Please add one (1) blank line after the title, which preferentially should cover no more that one line.
Author’s affiliation: Please present all authors contributing to the work described and underline the presenting author. Please give the full affiliation (name of the institution, address and country and email address for all authors). Please add two (2) blank lines before starting the following section.
Key words: Please add 3 – 5 descriptive key words
Abstract Body:  Abstracts should include an Introduction (including a  statement of hypothesis), Materials and Methods, Results and Conclusions.
A maximum of 5  references may be included in the text (giving the name of the 1st author and year) accompanied by the full citation, including author’s names, title, year of publication, journal name (in full typed in italics), volume, number, inclusive paging, and year of publication at the bottom of the text. Tables and Figures: Authors may consider adding 1 table or 1 figure to the abstract, provided that the number of words is reduced accordingly. Please note that the entire abstract, including tables, figures and references, needs to fit on one A4 page with standard margins (2.5 cm at top and bottom and both sites). For any further technical details we refer to the Instruction to Authors as given on the Website of the Journal of Veterinary Pharmacology and Therapeutics.
Preparation of the abstract should be rigorous and the abstract checked for errors and accuracy before submission. Please make a proof-print before submission, to avoid submission failures.

Review process

By submitting an abstract, the authors agree to the following review procedure:
Abstracts will be reviewed according to the procedures set for publications in the Journal of Veterinary Pharmacology and Therapeutics, where all accepted abstracts will be published in an electronic supplement to the Journal (volume 35, July 2012). Abstracts found to be lacking in sufficient clarity or scientific content may be rejected or sent back to the authors with suggestions for amendments.
The Scientific Board will allocate abstracts to the different scientific sessions, considering the suggestions as given by the authors regarding the topic. Depending on the numbers of submitted abstracts within a certain category, the scientific boards maintains the right to allocate individual abstracts to a related section when this appears to be necessary to achieve a balanced congress programme. This includes also that the preference of the authors to submit an oral presentation will be considered as much as possible, but the Scientific Board again maintains the right to allocate a submission to a poster session.
Abstract submissions must be completed by 15th of March, 2012 at 11:59 p.m. CET.