ABSTRACTS SUBMISSION PROCEDURE
The Organising Committee of the XXIIFIAMC CONGRESS, invites you to submit abstracts for oral communications or posters.

General Guidelines

1. Deadline for submitting Abstracts: January 30th 2006.
2. Abstracts submitted must be original papers, not previously published, nor presented in any other Congress.
3. Abstracts must be submitted exclusively online through the official web site form: www.fiamcbarcelona2006.org stracts received through any other method will not be accepted.
4. At least one of the authors must be registered for the Congress when sending the abstract. A limit of 3 abstracts may be sent for each registered author. In the case that the submitted abstract is not accepted for presentation, you must contact the Technical Secretariat before March 30th 2006 in order to receive the refund of 90% of the registration fee.
5. The results of the abstract selection process will be sent via e-mail by February 28th 2006. Information on the presentation format designated for your abstract (oral communication or poster) and guidelines for preparing presentations will be included as well as the date and place of presentation.

Instructions for abstract submission

1. Abstracts may be submitted either in English, French or Spanish.
2. The Title should be written in capital letters. Lower case should be used for: a) Authors’ names (Last name followed by the initial of the first name, without using periods. There is a maximum of 6 authors, with names being separated by comas). b) Name of Institution (only 1 permitted) and e-mail. Do not include any academic titles (see the example).
3. Abstracts should not be more than 250 words. Longer abstracts will not be accepted. Abstracts must be structured in the following sections: Objectives, Material and Methods, Results and Conclusions. Do not include references.
4. Each section must begin as a new paragraph. Do not leave blank spaces before new paragraphs. Abbreviations should be defined the first time the term appears.
5. Do not include figures or tables.
6. The authors should indicate presentation preferences (oral communication or poster format).
7. Modifications in the abstract are not allowed once the abstract has been submitted.

The submission of an abstract indicates acceptance of these rules.