APAMT 2022 ABSTRACT SUBMISSION GUIDELINE

The APAMT Scientific Committee chaired by Prof Geoff Isbister (Australia), will evaluate each abstract. The Committee’s decision will be final. Oral presentations of free papers that are accepted will be presented during the free paper session on the first day of the virtual scientific program. Orals will be given 15 minutes to present and the time of the presentation will be confirmed via email closer to the conference. Those not accepted for oral presentation may be accepted as poster presentations.

Young Investigator requirements: You must be 35 or under at the date of the conference.

All abstracts are peer-reviewed and ranked on the basis of scientific merit. Not all abstracts will necessarily be accepted for presentation. At the time of submitting your abstract the data must not have already appeared in print (it is OK for data to have been accepted for publication). If the research presented was supported by a commercial organisation, a statement identifying this support must be submitted. If the research involved human subjects, it must have been approved by your institutional review board or Human Ethics Committee and conform to international standards of ethical practice. Animal research must have been approved by an appropriate Review Board and conform to the highest standards of human care. An author of any abstract selected for participation on the program must attend the meeting and pay the relevant registration fee.

Abstracts must be submitted electronically via online portal on or before 16th October 2022. The instructions given below must be adhered to and incomplete abstracts will be rejected. 

If you require English language assistance, please submit your abstract by 1st October the Committee will attempt to support you. 

Abstracts received after 16th October 2022 will not be considered for the meeting. If you do not have access to the Internet, or you encounter technical problems that prevent you from submitting online, please contact the Congress Secretariat who will provide advice. E-mail: 2022apamt@gmail.com   

ABSTRACT FORMAT

These instructions highlight general guidance although the electronic submission tool will format much of your abstract automatically. However, you are strongly advised to pre-prepare your abstract, using the guidance below, before attempting to submit your work online. 

Please note: Graphs and other figures are not permitted.

• Authors should be listed as Given Name (without middle initials) followed by last name
• Qualifications and positions are not to be included
• If an author has more than one abstract, please be consistent when entering the name for each abstract, as multiple versions of the same name cause difficulties with the author index. The affiliation must comprise ONLY department name, institution and country.
• Maximum of 5 co-authors can be added.
• The body of the abstract should be organized as outlined below. 
Objective: A statement of the purpose or reason for the report.
Methods: A brief description of the study design.
Results: A summary of the results presented in sufficient detail to support the conclusion. Data must be presented in the abstract. Statements such as “the results will be presented” or “other data will be presented to support....” will result in automatic rejection of the abstract.
Conclusion: A statement of the overall findings of the research based on the stated objective and data presented.
References: All references (if any) should appear at the end of the abstract in numerical order as they appear in the text. Ensure references are cited in the text by bracketed numbers [1,2]. Follow the referencing style below. In general the number of references used should be limited to 5 or less. References are included in the word count.
• References for Journal articles should be formatted as in the following example: Giannini L, Vannacci A, Missanelli A, et al. Amatoxin poisoning: a 15-year retrospective analysis and follow-up evaluation of 105 patients. Clin Toxicol. 2007; 45:539-42.
• References for Book chapters should be formatted as follows: Goadsby PJ. Pathophysiology of headache. In: Silberstein SD, Lipton RB, Dalessio DJ, editors. Wolff's headache and other head pain. 7th ed. Oxford: Oxford University Press; 2001. p. 57-72.
• For case reports, the words “Case report:” replace the “Methods: and Results:” headings. Otherwise, the format remains the same.
• Reports of non-clinical studies, such as those describing poisons centre operations or educational tools should attempt to follow these guidelines as closely as possible.
• Word limit: The number of words is limited strictly to 400 (if the abstract does not include a table). This does not include the title, authors and affiliations, but does include the references. Each word or number is counted as one word whether it is one character or 10 characters long (The previous sentence has a word count of 18).
• Use of tables is limited to one simple table with a title. If a table is included in your abstract, the word limit is 300 (including references, but not including title, authors and affiliations).
• Figures and graphs/diagrams are not allowed.
• Please do NOT use automatic Word functions, e.g. numbering, bullet points or footnotes. 

OTHER GENERAL INSTRUCTIONS TO IMPROVE THE ABSTRACT
 
• Explain in your abstract why the information is novel, unusual or adds something useful.
• Make your title descriptive of the subject of the abstract.
• You MUST use the headings suggested above.
• Explain all but the most common abbreviations (e.g. BP, Temp, pCO2) the first time they occur in the text.
• Make sure all symbols are easily identifiable.
• Include data (i.e. numerical results) in the abstract.
• Make sure your conclusions can be justified from the data you have provided.
• Include references to published papers, if appropriate (not more than 5). Note: They will be included in the word count.
• Add suitable keywords both online and in the abstract so that the interested reader can find the abstract.

THEMES

We have the following themes for the conference, but we encourage abstracts to be presented on any topic relevant to poisoning/toxicology.
• Herbicides poisoning
• Emerging trends of new pesticide poisoning 
• Industrial chemical accidents
• Climate change and toxic disasters
• Psychoactive drugs / plants
• Toxicological effects of Radio-Nuclear events
• Antidotes in Clinical Toxicology
• Substance use in the Asia-Pacific region

PRIZES

There will be a prize for the best young investigator oral presentation. The best three abstracts will be chosen to be presented in a single session and then the best will be selected from the presentations given. 

Please click the button below to start the abstract submission process: