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Technical reference and guidelines regarding submission of abstracts

Submission, Deadline

• Abstracts have to be submitted exclusively online.
• Deadline for application is 15 November 2017 23:59:59 CET.
• Alterations and corrections may be executed previous to the deadline.

Topic, Language

• Each contribution must relate to one of the given topics.
• Abstracts may be submitted and presented in German or English.

Size, Content

• The abstract is limited to 2,200 characters (spaces included).
• The title should be phrased short and significant.
• The following structure of the abstract is mandatory: objectives, methods, results and conclusions.

Conditions, Requirements

• It is not allowed to submit an abstract several times to different subjects of the congress.
• The number of authors is limited to 10 altogether. The presenter must be listed first.
• The abstract text has to be orthographically suitable for publishing.
• The usage of special formatting should be limited. The correct replication in all media cannot be guaranteed.

Publication, Presentation

• Accepted papers will be published for quotation in "Sports Orthopaedics and Traumatology (SOT)" as well as in "Deutsche Zeitschrift für Sportmedizin (DZSM)".
• Please be aware that in case of extremely long headlines or lists of authors, your abstract may have to be shortened for publication in the abstract book.
• All listed authors have to consent to the abstract content and publication as well as to the publication of their name in all congress media.
• Posters are equally submitted as abstracts related to the respective topics.

Review, Registration

• All submitted abstracts will be reviewed anonymously by several experts.
• Evaluation criteria are: aim and objective (inventive, important, clearly defined), material and methodology (adequate design, prospective or retrospective), results (complete, trend-setting, statistically covered) and conclusions (critical, well deduced, current literature).
• Subsequent to the reviewing process, e-mail notifications about acceptance or refusal will be sent to the first authors who will inform their co-authors about the result.
• In case of acceptance as oral or poster presentation, the presenting authors receive a discounted congress ticket. All co-authors have to register formally if required.
• The first author is automatically the presenting author.

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