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26th European Chrystallographic Meeting, 29 August-2 September 2010, Germany

Call for Abstracts

Participants, who would like to make an oral or poster presentation at the congress, must submit an abstract for the consideration and approval of the Program Committee.

Only abstracts sent via email will be evaluated by the Program Committee. No hardcopy submissions will be considered.

Presenting author: the name of the presenting author must appear first in the list of authors. No one may be the first author on more than ONE contribution.

The presenting author (= first author) must register and pay the registration fee.

Invited speakers: are permitted to submit a poster presentation in addition to their talk. Please note that abstracts for invited presentations (keynote lectures and microsymposia) must be submitted according to the instructions below and should be received by April 9, 2010.

The topics of the microsymposia (MS) are all defined and up to two speakers will be invited by the corresponding MS chairpersons. The three additional speakers will be selected by the chairpersons, after the evaluation of the abstracts proposed by the authors as an oral contribution.

The request with the identification of FA-MS needs to be specified at the time of abstract submission. It will be responsibility of the chairpersons to complete the MS program by selecting the additional speakers among the applying participants.

The contribution will be automatically redirected to the poster session if the request for an oral presentation cannot be fulfilled; the FA & MS -Topics should be specified by the authors for the identification.

The instructions for the preparation of the abstracts (specified below) will be available on the web site. The presenting author is required to ensure that all co-authors are aware of the contents of the abstract before submission.

Acceptance as a speaker in a given MS will be communicated to the author after the decision has been made by the respective chairpersons, in the middle in May, 2010. Acceptance of the poster contribution will be also notified to the presenting authors May, 2010.

The abstracts will be published in a special issue of Acta Crystallographica Section A.

Abstract Preparation Instructions

Abstract Template (PDF)

Abstract Template (MS Word)

Please read carefully before typing the abstract.

Please send your abstract via email to ecm@conventus.de according to the abstract template and to one of the related microsymposia.

On the Subject Line please write: ECM26, the lastname of the presenting author, the selected FA or the MS and your preference of holding an oral or poster presentation.

e.g.: ECM26 Abstract: Miller, MS1, Poster

1. Submitted abstracts on ECM26 must be written in English.

2. Only abstracts sent online will be evaluated by the Program Committee. No hardcopy submissions will be considered.

3. The content of the abstract is the responsibility of the author(s) only.

4. The abstracts for ECM26 will be printed using two columns on an A4 page with 2.5 cm top and bottom markings and a column width of 8 cm. Each abstract submitted must fit into a single column including the title and any figures or references. Abstracts that are too long to fit into a single column will not be accepted and the author(s) will be required to submit a shortened version.

5. Sentence capitalization should be used throughout, i.e. titles, authors, keywords etc. should be in upper and lower case letters.

6. Invited speakers are, however, permitted to submit a poster presentation in addition to their talk.

7. Abstracts will not be processed and published until the presenting author's (= first author) registration fee has been paid in full.

8. Authors are asked to provide the abstract as a single paragraph. In the case where authors do supply more than one paragraph, the style "no indent" is preferred, with a single line space between paragraphs. Text alignment should be set to justified.

9. In case of references: The body of the abstract should be followed by a blank line and any references using 8pt type. References should be indicated by numbers in square brackets [1], [2] etc. in the text and be given at the end of the abstract.

10. Authors are expected to provide 3 keywords for each abstract. A list of suggested keywords is available online as a PDF download file (Keywords).* Abstracts will only be considered if consistent with the above instructions and if received by the deadline.

Important Deadlines
- Deadline for students grant application: 15 March, 2010
- Deadline abstract submission: 9 April, 2010
- Deadline early bird registration: 20 May, 2010

Conference homepage: http://www.ecm26.org/

Submission deadline: 9 April 2010

Conference location: , Germany

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