All abstracts must arrive at the ESHRE Central Office no later than 1 February 2011.
Abstracts should be submitted in English only.
IMPORTANT! Any person submitting an abstract can only be the first author for one abstract. The material presented should be unpublished and original material, which has not yet been presented in any other meeting. First authors can only submit one abstract.
All abstracts will be refereed in the absence of the names and addresses of the authors. Authors are requested to indicate their preference for oral and/or poster presentation on the abstract submission form. Abstracts that are submitted for oral presentation, but that are not selected for oral communication can be referred to the poster sessions. The decisions of the selection committee are final. All accepted abstracts and the index of authors will be published in an abstract book, a monograph to the Human Reproduction Journals.
Abstracts for the following topics will be accepted:
• Andrology (male fertility, spermatogenesis) • Cross-border reproductive care • Developing countries and infertility• Early pregnancy• Embryology• Endometriosis, endometrium and implantation • Ethics and law• Fertility preservation• Management of fertility centres• Paramedical (Nursing, Laboratory)• Psychology and counselling• Reproductive endocrinology (including PCOS, infancy, puberty, adolescence, menopause )• Reproductive epidemiology and health economy• Reproductive genetics (PGD/PGS)• Reproductive surgery (female & male)• Safety, Quality, Risks and Complications (guidelines, accreditation and certification, multiple pregnancy, treatment outcome and follow-up)• Stem cells
Abstracts should be structured and include the following parts:
- Introduction - should be informative and short, stating why the study was conducted;
- Material & methods - indicating the locale, number and type of human subjects, non-human species or material being studied, the principal procedures, assays, tests or treatments performed;
- Results - confirming or refuting the hypothesis, supported by statistics if appropriate;
- Conclusions - stating the major new findings of the study and specifying what these findings add to what is known already.
Abbreviations can be used after defining them first.
The use of graphs, tables and images is strongly discouraged.
Abstract title. Do not use capital letters and do not indent. The title should reflect the contents and should be no longer than 150 characters.
List the authors with family name first, followed by initials (i.e. Jones, B.; Smith, J.; and Simpson, A.) The name of the first author is also the presenting author. Do not include professional titles or degrees.
The body text must be a maximum of 600 words. The different parts of the abstract - introduction, material and methods, results, conclusions - are to be typed in bold.
Please read the on-line instructions (available soon) carefully before submitting your abstract.
HARD COPY ABSTRACTS (SENT BY FAX OR POST) WILL BE COMPLETELY IGNORED!!!
Authors are urged to carefully consider the list of topics, before indicating the single most appropriate topic for their abstract.
Authors are requested to mention a minimum of two and a maximum of five keywords.