Introduction: Abstract Submissions for 2008

• You must be logged in with your ABS username to submit an abstract. If you do not recall (or have not set) a password, you may set one from the login page that appears when you click the login link.

• ABS policy permits current members (members at the time of the meeting) to present one talk OR poster at the annual meeting. This means that a current ABS member may be first author (i.e. present) a single talk/poster. Members may be listed as coauthors on additional presentations, but the first author (i.e. presenter) must be an ABS Member. Invited talks (e.g. Plenary, workshops, and symposiums) are not counted in this limit. An invited speaker who is also a current ABS member can be first author and present one additional talk or poster.

• Be advised that there is a limit on the number of Contributed Talks that can be accepted. ABS bylaws require us to accept talk abstracts in the order received rather than the merits of the abstract or the presenter. You may still submit your most excellent abstract as a contributed poster, but not as a contributed talk once this limit has been reached. The current limit is set at: 200. Due to limited space at Snowbird, this will be a firm limit for 2008.

• Please keep the title of your abstract to around 75 characters and use sentence case; do not use an "all caps" format.

• The abstract itself should be no longer than 1200 characters (including spaces), which is about 200 words.

• If coauthors are all at the same institution, enter only the organization's abbreviation for the the second listing. Do not duplicate the name of the organization in full the second time. This will save space and editing effort for the program officers.

• Please only use the main institution (or abbreviation where appropriate), do not include Division, Dept, Lab affiliations etc, again this will save space and editing effort for the program officers.

• Submissions for all presentations will close on June 30, 2008, midnight EST (24:00 military time). Submission for contributed talks will close when the limit is reached or the deadline, whichever comes first.

• For technical help, please check the "how to" folder articles (in the Navigation list on the left). If you need further help you may use the "contact" link (upper top right) to send an e-mail to the ABS Central Office. Please provide as much information about your computing environment and the details about the problem as possible in order for us to help (OS, Browser version, Name, Institution/location, time and date as near as you can tell and e-mail address.). You may also use the contact address if you are unable to submit your abstract information electronically.

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Once you have read the information above and logged on with your ABS username, click on the Abstract Submission folder below to create your abstract document for the meeting. If you are not logged on or a current member at the time of the meeting, you will not be able to add an abstract.

Note: If you are cutting and pasting your abstract from a word processing application such as Microsoft Word - make sure you have turned off the "smart quote" feature or you may get unicode errors when you try and save

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