Abstracts (now closed - except Scandinavian track)

The 2008 International Stillbirth Conference welcomes the submission of abstracts related to all aspects of the understanding and prevention of stillbirth and its consequences. This includes both original scientific contributions, descriptive reports on reviews or regional situations, presentations of health care, bereavement or organizational programs, as well as artwork.

To be reviewed and considered for presentation at the 2008 Conference, all abstracts should be submitted in English, using the form below, at the latest on the DEADLINE OF July 1.

Download Abstract Submission Form

Please email the Abstract Submission Form and the Abstract to conference08@stillbirthalliance.org

Submissions specifically to the parallel sessions of the Norwegian Society for Perinatal Medicine may relate to any field of perinatology, and should be submitted in a Scandinavian language before September 15^th. The same instructions for authors (below) apply for abstracts in a Scandinavian language.

Instructions for abstracts:

Abstracts should be written in a common word-processing format (preferably Microsoft Word) with double-spaced lines, font size 12 pt (preferably Times New Roman) and two-inch margins on both sides of an A4 format page. The abstract should be structured as follows:

1)       Title

In CAPITAL letters with no more than 25 words and no period at the end.

2)       List of authors or artists (presenting author underlined) with a number to indicate their institutional / organizational / country affiliation in this format:

John A. Doe (1), Mary B. Doe (1,2) and Ben Smith (3)

3)       List of institutional /organizational / country affiliations in this format:

1. Department of Obstetrics, University of England, London, UK

2. Stillbirth Alliance, Washington, DC, USA

3. Oslo, Norway

4)       Address of corresponding author – preferably only the e-mail address in this format:

Correspondence: john@doe.org

5)       Abstract text. Not to exceed 2000 characters (spaces included), including any tables. When possible, the abstract text should be structured in the following sections and format (the last two sections apply to all submissions):

Introduction: This is why this was important.

Objectives: This is what we wanted to do.

Methods: This is how we did it.

Results: This is what we found.

Conclusion: This is how we interpret it.

Acknowledgements and sources of financing: This is who made this possible and paid for it, if any.

Conflicts of interest: These are our conflicts of interest, if any.

6)       One – 1 – figure / picture can be inserted into the word file, below all the text, after ensuring that the figure itself represents a .jpg file in black and white or greyscale of no more than 1 Mb, and in a resolution suitable for high-quality printed reproduction with either the height or the width being 8 cm or less.