“Everywomen in the 21st Century”

 Invitation to Submit Abstracts for Papers

 PLEASE NOTE: All presenters must pay registration fees to attend the Meeting.

 Abstract preparation

1.          Abstracts must be no more than 300 words.

2.          Abstracts should not contain references or figures, however they may contain tables.

3.          Please use MS Word 6 (or earlier: if you use a later version, please submit as an RTF file), Arial font size 11. The title is to be left justified, in upper and lower case (not CAPITALS) followed by double spacing, then author/s name/s in upper and lower case followed by organisation and city. The name of the author presenting the paper must be asterisked (see following example):

Title (Upper and Lower Case - not CAPITALS)
Author (1), Author (2), Author (3)*
(1) organisation of author and city (one line per entry) (2) organisation of author and city
(3) organisation of author and city

 4.         Do not use printing enhancements such as different fonts, italics, underlining, bold text etc, except for italics for non-English words or scientific names where necessary.

 5.         All abstracts will be printed as submitted, so should be thoroughly checked for spelling and grammar before submitting.

 6.         State whether eligible for ASPOG New Researcher Prize.

 7.         Include statement on ethical compliance.

Abstract Submission

1.          Abstracts must be submitted by email (as an attachment in Word)

2.          Abstracts sent via fax will not be accepted

3.          Please name the e-mail attachments as follows: First author’s surname+initials.doc eg Citizen J.doc

4.          If you are the first author on more than one abstract, please number the e-mail file as follows: Citizen J1.doc, Citizen J2.doc

5.          E-mail your abstract to Ms Bianca Scarlett,  This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it

6.          E-mails MUST be received on or before Friday 11 May 2012. You will be emailed an acknowledgment of receipt.

Notification of Acceptance

1.          Authors will be advised by Friday 15 June 2012 whether or not their abstracts have been accepted.

2.          Successful abstracts will be published in the Meeting handbook and distributed to delegates at the ASM. Abstracts will be published only if the presenting author is a registered or invited delegate. If authors do not register by the specified date of Friday 20 July 2012, the abstract will not appear in the program and will not be published.

3.          Failure to meet the specified deadlines and guidelines may result in exclusion of the
             abstract from publication.

STATEMENT ON ETHICAL COMPLIANCE

ASPOG is committed to ethically responsible reporting of research and clinical work.

The NHMRC National Statement on Ethical Conduct in Human Research 2007 – updated 2009 provides advice about what constitutes ‘human research’:

“Human Research is conducted with or about people or their data or tissue. Human participation in research is therefore to be understood broadly to involve human beings through

• taking part in surveys, interviews or focus groups
• undergoing psychological, physiological or medical testing or treatment
• being observed by researchers
• researchers having access to their personal documents or other materials
• the collection and use of their body organs, tissues or fluids ( eg skin, blood, urine, saliva, hair, bones, tumour and other biopsy specimens)
• access to their information (in individually identifiable, re-identifiable or non-identifiable form) as part of an existing published or unpublished source or database”

NHMRC National Statement on Ethical Conduct in Human Research 2007, p.8

Therefore, when submitting an abstract to ASPOG please demonstrate your compliance with ethical standards by including one of the following statements, whichever is applicable:

• The submitted abstract reports on research or clinical material from human participants or patients with approval from an Institutional Human Research Ethics Committee.
• The submitted abstract reports on work with quality improvement project approval.
• The submitted abstract does not use data collected from human participants or patients.

Prizes

ASPOG offers two annual prizes for papers presented at the ASPOG annual meeting.

1.          The “ASPOG New Researcher Prize” Applicants will be eligible for this Prize if they are within 5 years of Bachelors, Masters or PhD degree or of obtaining fellowship of a National Clinical College, and present their paper themselves at the meeting.

2.          “Roger Wurm Award” Founder of ASPOG 1991 to be awarded for the best scientific presented in person at the annual meeting.

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