Author Guidelines
GUIDE FOR AUTHORS ON PREPARING ABSTRACT
- Prospective authors/ presenters are invited to register as authors ahead of submission of their abstract on the EPHA conference web site.
- Abstracts should be submitted on line with the above website for a poster or oral presentation.
- Abstracts could be on a) Reports of scientific study and /or b) on Program performance
- Abstracts on scientific research findings should include a statement of objectives, brief description of the study design including data collection method(s); analysis, summary of the results , conclusions and recommendations
- Abstracts on program performance, community level services, best experiences reports etc. should contain evidence based concise statements of:
- A summary of the issue(s) addressed by the abstract
- Description of the intervention, project, experience, service etc
- Lessons learned: conclusions and implications of the intervention or project.
- possible next steps for implementation, or recommendations.
- In either case word count shouldn’t be more than 500 words
- Abstracts must be in English, single-spaced and Arial 12.
- Tables, figures, literature references, and acknowledgments should not form any part of the abstract’s content.
- The number of authors per abstract is unlimited. However, only one author can be listed as the presenting author.
- Begin the title of your submission in capital letters followed by name(s) and address (es) of author(s).Underline the name of the person presenting or replacement if presenter is not available.
- Present the text of the abstract on a separate page with its title.
- All acronyms must be defined.
- A completed author identification form must accompany abstract.
- Investigators should write their addresses and co-authors clearly on Author Identification Form.
- Abstracts presented at previous EPHA conference or similar conference should not be submitted.
- Submission of abstracts after deadline will not be accepted for review
- All received abstracts will be reviewed independently by three subject experts & evaluated according to the Scientific Review Format
- The review process is facilitated by EPHA secretariat and the Scientific Committee ( SC) .
- All received draft abstracts will be centrally registered (IT Team); assigned code number and clustered into any of the given subject thematic area
- Authors are advised to register their paper online under one of the conference thematic areas that accommodates the subject area and title of their abstract.
- Eligibility :From among the selected abstracts of EPHA members, only those that are authored by EPHA Active members will be eligible.
- Authors will be notified whether their abstracts are accepted or declined
- Accepted abstract will appear in its full form in the abstract book, and/or on the abstract CD-ROM and on the conference EPHA website.
Submissions for this conference were closed on 2020-01-06.