INSTRUCTIONS FOR POSTER ABSTRACTS
Your submitted ASPEN CANCER CONFERENCE ABSTRACT should be 3 to 5 pages, 1 inch margins, double-spaced throughout, PDF format, and include tables, figures, and references. Committee highly recommends references to key papers. Deadline for submission is March 15, 2025.
Each Fellow will be responsible for providing a poster of your abstract that will be displayed at the Tuesday evening Poster Session. The poster should be approximately 3’ x 5’ horizontal and brought with you to the conference.
HEADER. Type the last name of the Senior Author in the upper left-hand corner, page number center, and date in the upper right-hand corner of each page.
TITLE. The title should be in bold. The first line of the title should be flush left, indenting 2 spaces on all consecutive lines. Under the title, indenting 2 spaces, type full names of all authors in caps. Following the authors, type addresses including the zip code.
REFERENCES. References should be cited in the text by an ARABIC numeral in parentheses and on the same line of text. Do not use superscripts, subscripts or square brackets or other symbols. Use et al (no periods) for more than 3 authors when mentioning in the text.
LITERATURE. Literature should be listed alphabetically and numbered sequentially. Include the names and initials of all the authors, year of publication in parentheses, full title of the paper, references source abbreviated (as listed in Index Medicus), volume and first and last page.
CITATIONS. Citations should be complete, and are the sole responsibility of the author. Papers submitted, or in preparation are not to be cited, but can be listed in the text as “personal communication.”
The following are examples of references listings:
ABBREVIATIONS, CHEMICAL DESIGNATIONS. The metric system is the standard for all measurement and variable notations. Abbreviations should be defined between parentheses when first indicated in the text. Italics text should be underlined and Chemical Abstracts or associated indexes should be used for conventional chemical designation. Authors may use, without definition, the following abbreviations:
m/meter
cm/centimeter
cm2/square centimeter
mm/millimeter
um/micrometer (not micron)
nm/nanometer (not millimicron)
L/liter
ml/milliliter
ul/microliter
g/gram
mg/milligram
ug/microgram
kg/kilogram
hr/hours
min/minutes
sec/seconds
yr/years
Im/intramuscular
ip/intraperitoneal
iv/intravenous
po/oral
sc/subcutaneous
ic/intracutaneous
i.e./that is
e.g./for example
vs/versus
et al/and others
Fig. /Figure
Each Fellow will be responsible for providing a poster of your abstract that will be displayed at the Tuesday evening Poster Session. The poster should be approximately 3’ x 5’ horizontal and brought with you to the conference.
HEADER. Type the last name of the Senior Author in the upper left-hand corner, page number center, and date in the upper right-hand corner of each page.
TITLE. The title should be in bold. The first line of the title should be flush left, indenting 2 spaces on all consecutive lines. Under the title, indenting 2 spaces, type full names of all authors in caps. Following the authors, type addresses including the zip code.
REFERENCES. References should be cited in the text by an ARABIC numeral in parentheses and on the same line of text. Do not use superscripts, subscripts or square brackets or other symbols. Use et al (no periods) for more than 3 authors when mentioning in the text.
LITERATURE. Literature should be listed alphabetically and numbered sequentially. Include the names and initials of all the authors, year of publication in parentheses, full title of the paper, references source abbreviated (as listed in Index Medicus), volume and first and last page.
CITATIONS. Citations should be complete, and are the sole responsibility of the author. Papers submitted, or in preparation are not to be cited, but can be listed in the text as “personal communication.”
The following are examples of references listings:
- Smith AT Jr (1952). Article title: Subtitle–Cap after colon or em dash (–). Abbrev. & Ital. Jour. Name (but spell out if only one word) 25: 182-188.
- Smith BT and Jones TC (eds) (1958). Book Title:–Cap After Colon or Em Dash. Publisher, Place.
- Smith CT, Taylor QR, and Jones TC (1972). Article title. In: Book Title, vol. l, J Jones and MN Lee (eds). Publisher, Place, pp. 615-654.
- Smith DT (1983). Dissertation title. University of Toronto, M.Sc. Thesis.
- Smith ET (1986). Article title. Abbrev. Jour. Name 58 (in press).
- Smith FG (1985). Article title. Abbrev. Jour. Name 16:818 (Abstract).
ABBREVIATIONS, CHEMICAL DESIGNATIONS. The metric system is the standard for all measurement and variable notations. Abbreviations should be defined between parentheses when first indicated in the text. Italics text should be underlined and Chemical Abstracts or associated indexes should be used for conventional chemical designation. Authors may use, without definition, the following abbreviations:
m/meter
cm/centimeter
cm2/square centimeter
mm/millimeter
um/micrometer (not micron)
nm/nanometer (not millimicron)
L/liter
ml/milliliter
ul/microliter
g/gram
mg/milligram
ug/microgram
kg/kilogram
hr/hours
min/minutes
sec/seconds
yr/years
Im/intramuscular
ip/intraperitoneal
iv/intravenous
po/oral
sc/subcutaneous
ic/intracutaneous
i.e./that is
e.g./for example
vs/versus
et al/and others
Fig. /Figure
