Submission of extended abstracts

All speakers at Flavobacterium 2012 are requested to submit an approximately 3-5 pages extended abstract by the deadline of submission (August 31st, 2012). The extended abstract should provide a succinct overview of the oral presentation. All abstracts must be submitted electronically by e-mail to flavo2012(at)abo.fi as a Microsoft Word (.doc) file indicating the speaker’s family name (e.g. Wiklund.doc). Corresponding authors will be informed of the acceptance of their abstracts by October 31st, 2012. Abstracts will be published in the proceedings of a conference CD and on the conference website. Please conform to the abstract guidelines prepared in the extended abstract template before submission. In case of any questions regarding abstract submission, please do not hesitate to contact Krister Sundell (ksundell(at)abo.fi).

Extended abstract guidelines

Page layout
• Orientation: Portrait.
• Margins: Normal (Top, Bottom, Left, Right: 2.54 cm or 1 inch).

Title of presentation
• Times New Roman, 15 point font, bold, single line spacing, aligned to the left.

Author List
• Times New Roman, 12 point font, bold, single line spacing, aligned to the left.
• First name, middle initials if required, and surname. A comma should separate author names, except the last name, which is to be preceded by "&". Where authors are from different institutions, the appropriate institution number from the affiliation list should be given as a superscript number after each author's name.

Affiliation list
• Times New Roman, 12 point font, italic, single line spacing, aligned to the left.
• Institution affiliation(s).
• In abstracts with authors from different institutions, use superscript numerals as reference marks.

Correspondence
• Times New Roman, 12 point font, italic, single line spacing, aligned to the left.
• E-mail address of the corresponding author.

Abstract
• Times New Roman, 12 point font, single line spacing, justified.
• Type the text without hyphenating words at line breaks.

References
• Times New Roman, 12 point font, single line spacing, justified.
• Number the references in order of appearance in the text.

Terms of extended abstract submission

By submitting an extended abstract the author accepts the following terms:
1. The work is his/her own.
2. All authors of the extended abstract have approved its submission.
3. The extended abstract will be available on a CD and on the conference web page.
4. The CD containing the extended abstracts will be publicly available.
5. The extended abstracts will be publicly available for download from the web page.
6. Typographic changes to abstracts can be made without specific permission from authors during the editing process of the CD and and web page.