Invited papers

Instructions for Invited Speakers:

• The proceedings of the II International Symposium on Animal Biology of Reproduction (ISABR 2008) will be published as a special issue of Animal Reproduction (AR).

• The maximum length of each manuscript (review or original article) should be less than 40 double-spaced pages, including references, tables, and figures.

• Manuscripts will be peer-reviewed and edited before publication. Examples of published papers from the ISABR 2006 can be found in Anim. Reprod. 3(2):81-159, 2006 (http://www.cbra.org.br/publicacoes/animalreproduction/issues.do).

• For writing instructions, see the “Instructions to Authors” at the AR website (www.cbra.org.br/publicacoes/animalreproduction/instructions.do).

• Invited manuscripts should be submitted to the following address: animreprod@cbra.org.br.

• The deadline for manuscript submission is August 15, 2008.

Abstracts

Instructions to authors for posters and workshop presentations:

• The proceedings of the II International Symposium on Animal Biology of Reproduction (ISABR 2008) will be published as a special issue of Animal Reproduction (AR).

• Each participant is encouraged to submit his or her experimental or clinical work related to ovarian physiology/pathology or related field (includes male reproduction) that will be presented as a poster or in one of the three workshops. Abstracts should not have been previously published or presented at another international meeting.

• Authors of posters and workshop presentations must submit an abstract for publication. Abstracts should be complete and contain the final results.

• Authors of posters will be expected to attend their posters for a short, assigned time period during the Symposium to facilitate discussion with other delegates.

• Workshop presentations will be approximately 15 minutes in duration (including discussion) and will occur in special evening sessions during the 3 days of the Symposium.

• Each abstract will be peer-reviewed by the members of the Scientific Committee. The Scientific Committee will give final decision for acceptance of an abstract.

• The Organizing Committee regrets to be unable to provide financial support or travel grants to the authors of posters and workshops.

Instructions to authors for posters presentations

1) Poster size

• Each poster will have a maximum size of 0.90 m (width) and 1.80 m (height)

2) Posters sessions schedules

• As it is already mentioned in the symposium program, there will be three posters sessions. Please see the list below that is ordered according to the abstract number and title, as you will see in the symposium proceedings (Animal Reproduction, v.6, n.1, 2009) available at the reception desk.
• For your convenience, the position of your poster will be properly indicated in the corresponding poster session, by a tag/label containing the poster number (corresponding to the abstract page number in the proceedings), title and the authors.
• The presenting author should place his/her poster early in the morning (between 7 and 8 a.m.) of the day scheduled for the presentation and withdraw it after 6 p.m. of the same day;
• The poster presenting author MUST be present in the designated local during the time period scheduled for the poster session.
• The second visit to the POSTER SESSION II (Nov. 21) has been scheduled for the lunch time of the same day. 

Poster session list

Abstract format and submission:

 1. Abstracts will be received from July 1 to August 31, 2008 through the ISABR website by the online system.

 2. Abstracts should be written in English.

 3. Only one poster per presenting author will be accepted.

 4. To verify if an abstract was accepted, authors should check the AR website. There, authors will be able to check the status of the abstract and the status of the registration payment.

 5. Registration of the presenting author must be received before the deadline for the abstract submission. All accepted abstracts will be included in the Symposium’s proceedings (to be published in a special issue of the journal Animal Reproduction).

 6. The abstract must be prepared using Microsoft Word (click here to see examples of abstracts presented kat the ISABR 2006). More examples of abstracts can be found in Anim. Reprod. 3(2):160-332, 2006 (http://www.cbra.org.br/publicacoes/animalreproduction/issues.do).

The general instructions are:

• A single A4 white sheet (210 mm wide, 297 mm long) with 2.0-cm margins, single space, and single column is the proper page format. Title, authors’ names, affiliation, and the text must be centered. An “11-pt Times New Roman” font is advised.
• Tables, figures, and black-and-white photographs may be included in the abstract but must fit within the single page. Laser quality printing is requested (e.g., 300 dpi).
• The title, author’s names, and addresses should be centered on successive lines. Presenting author’s name should be underlined. Author’s names, affiliation and city should be typed in mixed cases, using the initial (s) and full last name (click here to see available example).
• The text should be organized to include Introduction, Materials and Methods, Results and Discussion, and References. The English accuracy is entirely the author’s responsibility.

• Abbreviations can be used only if they are explained in full the first time they appear in the text. To indicate measurements, Système Internationale (SI) units must be used.

• Identify the references by consecutive numbers in parentheses in the text and list them sequentially as the last segment of the abstract (see available example).

• For more writing instructions, see the “Instructions to Authors” <www.cbra.org.br/publicacoes/animalreproduction/instructions.do>.
• Abstracts should be submitted online system.