Please complete the summary of your presentation following the format that is presented bellow. If the format is still unclear, for your convenience we have provided an example of a summary format.      

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CENTERED TITLE ALL IN BOLD AND CAPITAL LETTERS (ARIAL FONT 12)
Name(s) of Author(s) (Arial font 11, centered)
Institution that you are representing if it were the case (Arial font 11, centered)
Mailing address, e-mail* (Arial font 11, centered)
Subject Matter (Arial font 10, centered)
Key Words: Three to Four words written in italics (Arial font 10, centered)

Summary

The structure of the summary MUST include: a presentation of the subject matter, a problem or question concerning investigation/research, objectives, methodology, results and conclusions.

A maximum of 3 authors can be cited in the summary. This should be accompanied by a reference list at the end of the text under the title ‘References’.

The content of the summary is the responsibility of the author(s).

IMPORTANT: The summary should NOT extend to more that one page, including the reference list (if one was incorporated). It also is required that a résumé (Curriculum Vitae) be sent in the form of an essay. This essay should not exceed one page and should be written in Arial font 12.

Send the summary and résumé (Curriculum Vitae) to the following email address: comitecientifico@fissnet.org

PLEASE NOTE: The summary must meet the above mentioned requirements in order to be accepted by the Scientific Committee’s office.

The deadline to submit summaries is:
August 20th, 2009.

The International Scientific Committee will confirm that they have received these summaries. Only those summaries that meet the stated requirements will be accepted and sent to the Evaluative Scientific Commission, which will review these summaries and make the necessary recommendations. These recommendations will be in accordance with the criteria determined by the International Scientific Committee. The Director of the Committee will then respond to the author(s) in one of 3 ways:

Accepted summaries with remarks should be corrected and resent as soon as possible.
Please send a recent photograph (larger than 300 dpi, appropriate for the Congress’ memoirs).

Deadline for the photograph and the corrected summary:
September 10th, 2009

You can access the example of the unabridged work format by clicking the following button:

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TITLE
(Centered, Garamond 14, Bold and all Capitalized)

Abbreviated academic title, Name and last name(s)
(Right -justified text, Garamond 10, Bold)
Institution:
Mailing Address
(Right -justified text, Garamond 9)

 Key Words:
(Left- justified text, Garamond 11, italics)

SUMMARY
(Garamond 10, all Capitalized)

Summary of résumé (Curriculum Vitae)
(Garamond 9, maximum of 5 lines including address, telephone number and Email for contacts).

Lecture Content
(With subtitles capitalized and in Garamond 11)

(Content in justified text, Garamond 11, single spaced)

(Please write the references in A.P.A format, Garamond 9).

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The page format should be A4. The top, bottom and right margins should be 2 cm (0.8 in.), and the left margin should be 2.5 cm (1 in.). The text should as well be in Garamond font.
Word processor:  Microsoft Word
Lists and Tables: Microsoft Excel
Graphs, charts and Pictures: JPEG format

The page limit varies for each submitted work:

• 9 pages for plenary sessions
• 7 pages for simultaneous conferences
• 5 pages for oral presentations/lectures and
• 3 pages for selected posters

The acceptance of an unabridged work does not necessarily mean that it will be published in the memoirs of paper format due to space and cost.

You must fill out a publication form in order to have your work published in one or all of the editions foreseen by the International Federation of Scientific Societies. A publication form will be distributed to all speakers. Have your forms ready to hand in (filled out and signed) when you arrive to the 6th World Congress.

The deadline for the unabridged work has been extended to:
September 15th, 2009

The poster should have a length of 120cm (47.2 in.) and a width of 90 cm (35.4 in.).