Abstracts

Submission is now open

 

The deadline for abstract submission is 15 October. Abstracts received after the deadline will not be considered. Authors will be notified of the acceptance of their abstract by email in the course of December 2022.

Each participating society retains its own abstract selection committee. Please choose to which society you wish to submit your abstract.

IMPORTANT: One particular abstract can only be submitted to one society only. Identical abstracts submitted to more than one society will be excluded.

You can submit abstracts for the following societies. Click on the society of your choice below to see the abstract topics for which you can submit your abstract.

• ACA/CA (Australian Chiropractors Association and Chiropractic Australia)

• Africa Spine

• AOSpine 

• Asia Pacific Biospine Society

• APCSS (Asia Pacific Cervical Spine Society)

• APSS (Asia Pacific Spine Society)

• ASSI (Association of Spine Surgeons of India)

• CAOS (Chinese Association of Orthropaedic Surgeons)

• ISSLS (Internatioanl Society for the Study of the Lumbar Spine)

• JSSSR (The Japanese Society for Spine Surgery and Related Research)

• Korean Spinal Neurosurgery Society

• NASS (North American Spine Society)

• Neurospine

• Saudi Spine Society

• SBC

• SILACO (Sociedad Iberolatinoamericana de Columna)

• SMISS (Society for Minimally Invasive Spine Surgery)

• SIS (Spine Intervention Society)

• SOSORT (The International Society on Scoliosis Orthopaedic and Rehabilitation Treatment)

• SSA (Spine Society of Australia)

• World Spinal Culumn Society

 

Submission instructions

Abstracts must be submitted as a Word file via the online submission form (see link below) and must comply with the author guidelines.
You can submit several abstracts at the same time and/or add abstracts later on.
Click on the link below to start and create a profile.
Fill out your personal data, select the society for which you want to submit one or more abstracts and go through the submission procedure.
Your abstract(s) is/are only uploaded successfully when you receive an automatic reply confirming your submission(s).

IMPORTANT: The uploaded Word file(s) must contain Title, authors & affiliations and the actual abstract.

Please read the author instructions carefully before submitting your abstract(s).

Click here for step by step guidance through the online submission procedure.

 

Instructions for authors

• Abstracts must be written in English not exceeding 500 words and must be submitted as a Word file (.doc or .docx) via the online submission form. The word count includes the title, authors and affiliations.

• Use font Arial 10 characters per inch (font size 10)

• Use single spacing and type the text unjustified without hyphenating words at line breaks. Use hard returns only to end headings and paragraphs, not to rearrange lines.

• Type title in sentence case in bold with no full stop at the end

• Type family name first followed by the initials of the first name of the authors (Rubens P.P., Van Eyck J. etc.)

• Type affiliation underneath the authors: Institution, Dept., City, Country (do not mention street addresses, PO boxes or zip codes). When there are multiple affiliations number them as follows and use the semi-colon between the multiple affiliations:

         1Dept. A, Hospital A, City, Country; 2Dept. B, Hospital B, City, Country; 3Dept. C, Hospital C, City, Country

• Ideally, your abstract is structured as follows: Introduction / Aim / Patients and Methods / Results / Conclusion. In structured abstracts, paragraph headings should be typed in bold followed by a colon. Do not use the heading ‘Abstract’.  

• Tables/graphs are allowed and are to be included in the word count.

• The use of References is discouraged and must be limited to max 3. When you list references use superscript numbers in both the text and the reference list. Use Arial font size 8 for references.

 

Download the template here