Abstract Submission Help

The Abstract Center displays the personal information of the user currently logged in.

You can submit a new abstract until the abstract submission deadline is reached, by clicking on the corresponding link and then following the different steps.

In case you have already submitted an abstract, a list of the abstracts is displayed. You can view each of them by clicking on the "view"-link of one abstract. To a certain extend abstracts can be edited after submission until the abstract submission deadline is reached. The title of the symposium and abstract text can be changed after submission. However, speaker information as well as their titles cannot be changed after submission. Please contact CPO HANSER SERVICE for eventual changes.

Create new abstract

Step 1: Basic abstract information
Abstract type: Please apply one of the possible methods of presentation to your abstract by selecting the corresponding type.

Abstract title: Entering a title for your abstract is mandatory (maximum 250 character).

Step 2: Author information
It is possible to add further persons, like co-authors, co-chairs or speaker, related to an abstract.

Add person to author list: Choose the function of the person you want to add, fill in the personal information and click on the "Add person" button. Please regard the mandatory fields.

You can edit or delete each person you have added until you have submitted your abstract. Afterwards it is just possible to add new persons.

Step 3: Abstract classification
Topics: With this select list your abstract should be assigned a topic. Depending on the abstract type, it might be possible to choose an alternative topic in an aditional select list.

Step 4: Abstract text
For the structured insertion of your abstract text there are one or more text fields. It is not necessary to fill in all fields already when submitting the abstract. The abstract can also be submitted with a title only and then be filled in or edited later on. This possibility applies until the end of the deadline. There might be a maximum number of words for either the complete text or one of the text fields pointed out on the form.

If the text fields are filled in by means of the "Copy & Paste"-functions of a word processing application like MS Word, special characters and non-European characters should be inserted in a certain way: Insert special characters in MS Word using the menu entry "Insert / Smbol". Within the following dialogue box it is very important, that the font type "(Normal Text)" is selected and not the font type "Symbol". The special character which is needed can then be selected and inserted (see figure below).

On the "Abstract Overview"-page you can see if all special characters have been inserted correctly. Text formatting like bold or underlined text will not be adopted in such a copying process. Please format your text as follows: The online forms allow for different textual styles, e.g. underlined, bold, italics, subscript and superscript. These can be achieved by using special HTML tags. Examples:

Bold Text,
Italicised Text,
Underlined Text ,

^{Superscript Text}

_{Subscript Text},

Please note:
It is not possible to insert tables within the text fields by means of blanks or tabulators. If there is a table belonging to the abstract, it must be transformed into an image file. Then, the table can be uploaded like an image (please look up the paragraph "Image files" on this page for more details).

Image files:
, JPEG, BMP or TIF. To include an image file you can browse your local file system with the "Browse"-button for the image file. After that, please fill in the field "Title of picture"; this title will be used as caption in the abstract proceedings and online publications. Of course you can use the chosen name as a reference in your abstract (e.g. "Figure 1").

With the same procedure, tables that have been saved as image files in one of the possible formats can be uploaded. Pictures / tables can also be replaced until the end of the deadline.

In order to save a table (e.g. from MS Word or Excel) as an image file, please do the following: First, all relevant rows and columns of the table need to be selected. By means of the "Copy"-function these are copied to the clipboard of your computer. Then, open a new file in an image processing application (e.g. MS Paint) and apply the "Paste"-function. The table will be displayed as a picture and can be saved as an image file.Abstracts can be supplemented with one image file in one of the formats GIF

Step 5: Abstract Overview
Please check all your data for correctness and especially for special character you might have inserted. If you need to change or complete anything, use the "Back"-navigation at the bottom of the page.

The abstract will be submitted after you have clicked the link 'Submit abstract' on the Abstract Overview page. After the submission it is still possible to edit this abstract up to the deadline.

Edit abstract

Editing an abstract after it has been submitted is possible until the end of the submission deadline. On the "Abstract editing" page.

The link Author Information leads to a display of the abstract's author and the possibility to enter more persons related to the abstract, e.g. co-authors.

Under Abstract Classification, the abstract can be assigned a new topic by means of a select list and then clicking on the button "Apply changes".

Finally, the link Abstract Insertion offers the possibility to change the title and to edit or insert the text of the abstract. Also, images can be uploaded from your local computer and thus attached to the abstract. Again, it is necessary to press the "Apply changes" button in order to save possible adaptions you have made.

Further support

If you have any questions, please contact us.

CO CONGRESS ONLINE immediately confirms the reception of your abstract by email. Please do not send it again by email, fax or mail.