Abstract information
GUIDELINES FOR ORAL AND POSTER SESSIONS
INSTRUCTIONS FOR PRESENTING AUTHORS
Oral presentations
The presentation language can be Italian or, for foreign speakers, English. However, it is suggested to prepare the slides in English to allow them to be read by foreign participants.
The format required for the slides is wide-screen (16:9).
The accepted formats are .ppt or .pdf.
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The duration of each intervention will be 11 minutes overall, of which 8 for presentation and 3 dedicated to any questions.
The oral presentations will be held at the times that the Scientific Committee will indicate in the final programme.
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All authors who will present their work are warmly invited to scrupulously check the duration of their presentations. Timing is essential for the success of presentations and for an effective and stimulating discussion. To this end, session moderators are mandated to strictly enforce timelines.
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The times in which presentations can be uploaded to the dedicated station are as follows: from 8:00 to 8:45, from 12:00 to 13:00 and during coffee breaks.
All those who have to make the oral presentation during the first session in the morning (starting at 9:45), will have to upload the slides by the previous evening.
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le Detailed Instructions for Oral Presentations
Posters
The Poster Sessions of the Congress aim to maximize interactions and the exchange of information/scientific ideas between event participants and with sponsors. To this end, the duration of the sessions will be two and a half hours and will include lunch.
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The posters presented Thursday 5 October they must be placed by 10:00 on the same day and removed by 7:00 on the same day.
The posters presented Friday 6 October they must be placed by 10:00 on the same day and removed by 7:00 on the same day.
Posters left after the indicated deadlines will be removed and kept at the secretariat until the end of the Congress and no later.
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The poster should include: Title, Authors' names and affiliations (with a contact author's email reference), Introduction, Materials and Methods, Results, Discussion and References. A clear and concise style is welcome and, if possible, the presentation of the results in graphical and/or tabular form. If there are photos of subjects, they must be made unrecognizable. It is suggested to write the text of the poster in English to allow foreign participants to read it.
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The maximum dimensions of the posters are: 70cm (width) x 100cm (height).
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the Detailed Instructions for the preparation of the Posters
PANIC SESSION
The authors (presenting authors) of the posters must prepare a single slide (PowerPoint 16:9 format).
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The slide, in .ppt or .pdf format, must be sent to the following siamoc2023@pentaeventi.com no later than September 27th, 2023.
The Panic session will take place at the beginning of the Poster Session. Poster authors will have 30 s to present their poster via the slide sent to the congress organisers.
At the end of the Panic session, poster authors will go to their poster and the Poster Session will begin.
Poster authors are requested to check at https://www.siamoc2023.it/program, (once the final congress program has been published) in which session (Poster Session 1, Thursday 5/10, or Poster Session 2, Friday 6/10) their poster has been placed.
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the Detailed Instructions for the preparation of the Panic session
GUIDELINES FOR SUBMISSION OF ABSTRACTS
All scientific contribution proposals for the Italian Society of Clinical Movement Analysis must be written in English, according to the format indications of the template, which can be downloaded from this page, without modifying its characteristics.
The deadline for sending scientific contributions to the SIAMOC 2023 Congress is 15 May 2023.
Download the template for preparing your scientific contribution to be sent to SIAMOC 2023 in .DOC and .PDF format
All scientific contribution proposals must be written in English, according to the format indications of the template, which can be downloaded from this page, without modifying its characteristics.
The deadline for sending scientific contributions to the SIAMOC 2020 Congress is 15 May 2023.
Download the template for preparing your scientific contribution to be sent to SIAMOC 2023 in .DOC and .PDF format
Guidelines for preparing and sending scientific contributions:
1. The file must be named as follows: SURNAME_INITIAL NAME_NR
Where SURNAME and INITIAL NAME refer to the first author. NR is a progressive number, which goes from 1 to the number of contributions that the same first author sends. If there is only one contribution, NR will be equal to 1;
2. Only documents in RTF or MS Word format will be accepted;
3. Formatting of the abstract: please follow the formatting instructions in the abstract template scrupulously. Specifically:
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In the title of the abstract only the first letter of the first word should be in upper case, all other words in the title should be written in lower case;
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The affiliation (institution, city, and country) should be written in English, without abbreviations and with the first letter in capitals;
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Any tables or figures should be referred to in the text. Tables should be entered as text tables and not as pictures;
4. Substantial modification of the template settings (eg margins, font size, etc) will determine the exclusion of the job.
The Authors will receive confirmation of receipt of the scientific contribution from the SIAMOC 2023 Organizing Secretariat.
This receipt should be kept as a reference for future communications.
Any requests for information or support regarding the sending of scientific contributions can be sent to siamoc2023@pentaeventi.com
TERMS AND CONDITIONS
All accepted contributions will be made available to Congress participants. The authors are responsible for the content and quality of the scientific contributions. No editing will be done on the received jobs.
The sending of the scientific contribution implies the acceptance of the following rules for participation in the Congress:
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All the Authors approve the sending of the scientific contribution for presentation.
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The Authors transfer the copyright of the scientific contribution to the Congress.
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The Authors undertake to prepare their presentations (oral and poster) according to the instructions given on this page.
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At least one Author indicated in the list of Authors, registered at the Congress, will be available to present the work if accepted. The Authors undertake to notify the Congress Secretariat as soon as possible of any changes in the Author who will present the work.
REVIEW PROCESS
All scientific contributions sent will be reviewed by at least two members of the Scientific Committee, selected according to the topic covered in the work. Clinical works will be assigned to at least two clinical reviewers, while methodological ones to at least two engineers. The reviewers will assign an evaluation based on four criteria: Relevance, Methodology, Presentation of Results, Impact.
Assessments will help determine how to present and will determine eligibility for publication in the Special Issue of Gait & Posture magazine. This publication may be subject to the request for revision of the English language by the Scientific Committee.
Authors will be notified of acceptance of the work by 30 June 2023.
