The INSAR Scientific Program Committee invites proposals for Panels, Posters, Oral Presentations, and Technology Demonstrations at the INSAR 2018 Annual Meeting to be held in Rotterdam, Netherlands on May 9-12, 2018
All abstracts are submitted online. Abstracts may be submitted as (a) part of a Panel, (b) an oral presentation, (c) a poster, or (d) a Technology Demonstration.
Abstract submission deadline: October 18th, 2017 (11:59pm PT)
Information submitted to the Annual Meeting as an abstract for oral or poster presentation is embargoed for the purpose of press releases until after the presentation. The Program Committee will select a small group of abstracts for inclusion in a press book and INSAR will arrange for information release and press conferences during the meeting. Press policies may be viewed on the INSAR website.
The research presented at the meeting must be substantively identical to that described in the abstract. Sufficient data for favorable review is necessary at the time of submission. Addition of data collected subsequent to submission is allowed and encouraged.
Authors are required to declare all conflicts of interest. The deadline for completion of conflicts of interest (COI) in the online system is November 2, 2017, 11:59 pm PT. Any abstracts with incomplete COI will be withdrawn from consideration for presentation. Authors of submitted abstracts are also expected to make disclosures at the beginning of their presentations or on their posters.
Panel Submissions. The aim of panels is to present lectures around a common scientific theme of high relevance to autism research. Submissions should consist of 4 linked presentations submitted as a group by a Panel Chair. A Discussant can be included, but is optional. The role of the discussant will be to provide a discussion integrating concepts raised in the presentations rather than to serve as a 5th presentation.
The Panel Chair should submit a paragraph describing the general theme of the session and the cutting edge science that will be discussed. It is understood that all named speakers will have committed in advance to participate in the panel if selected.
Priority will be given to panel submissions that include a presentation from an early career investigator(faculty within 10 years of terminal degree or advanced postdoctoral fellow or equivalent). Priority will also be given to panels that provide a collaboration of views across research programs rather than from a single institution.
Panel session length is 2 hours. Each talk can be 20 minutes long, with an additional 5 minutes for questions after each presentation, and 10 minutes allotted for the discussant. It is recommended to include a discussant. If there is no discussant, the Panel Chair would determine the best distribution of that time for either presentations or question and answers.
The program committee welcomes in particular panel proposals that are translational or cross-cultural.
Papers submitted as part of a panel that is not accepted will automatically be considered as an individual submission. If the abstract is reviewed favorably and is determined to stand alone as an individual submission outside a panel, the Program Committee will select oral or poster format. Do not submit material more than once (e.g., as part of a panel and as an individual oral presentation). The submitter can indicate if they do not want the abstract considered for oral or poster presentation. If this option is selected, and the panel isn’t accepted, the abstract will be withdrawn from consideration.
Oral Presentations should be data-driven, empirical reports of new findings that have not been previously published or presented elsewhere at the time of submission. Oral presentations will be 10 minutes long with 2 additional minutes for questions. Please avoid using the Oral Presentation format to review the literature or describe published techniques. The Program Committee will evaluate abstracts requested for oral presentations based on their new research content.
Abstracts that are accepted in this format will be grouped into Oral sessions according to common themes by the Program Committee. There are fewer slots for oral presentations than posters. If the submitter selects the "Oral Presentation only" format, and the Program Committee does not select the abstract for an Oral Presentation, the abstract will be withdrawn from consideration. Please indicate "Either Oral or Poster" format if there is no objection to the poster format as a default.
Poster Submissions should be data-driven, empirical reports of new findings that have not been previously published or presented elsewhere at the time of submission.
Poster presentations will be approximately 1.5 hours long.
Technology Poster / Demonstration Submissions should highlight an area of technology and its application to autism spectrum disorder. Preference will be given to those that include empirical data, represent a broad selection of the international community, and include an interactive demonstration of technology.
TO SUBMIT AN ABSTRACT FOR AN ORAL PRESENTATION OR POSTER:
TO SUBMIT A PANEL:
Enter both a summary of the overall panel theme, and an abstract for each proposed talk in the panel.
Panels will be evaluated as a whole. If any abstract within the panel is incomplete, the panel will be considered incomplete.
Note: ALL ABSTRACTS WILL BE PRINTED EXACTLY AS THEY ARE SUBMITTED. Therefore we recommend that you compose the text of the abstract in a separate document before beginning the online submission process. Check the spelling and grammar of the text before submitting it. The conference organizers will not edit any portion of abstracts (e.g., title, authors, affiliations, spelling errors).
As soon as you have submitted the title of your presentation you will automatically receive an email from (insar@confex.com) that includes a password-protected hyperlink. If you must interrupt the submission process before finishing it, you can resume at any time by clicking on the hyperlink in that email.
Panel, poster, tech demos and oral submissions will be reviewed for scientific merit by three independent reviewers. Reviewers are unaware of author identities. Submissions are rated on a 5-point scale using the following criteria:
Scores are averaged across the three reviews. Cutoff scores for acceptance are determined each year in accordance with INSAR’s strategic initiative to promote and enhance the highest quality research, the number of submissions in a submission format, and the available space at the venue.
In 2017, 90% of submissions were accepted. Acceptance rates for the different submission formats were:
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