Abstract Guidelines

Late-breaking Abstract submission deadline: March 23, 2018, 11:59PM Eastern Standard Time

Notification to authors: April 2-6, 2018

Preparation of abstracts

• Abstracts should be clear, concise, and written and presented in English. Abstracts will be published as submitted. Presenters are requested to carefully proofread their abstract. The Congress Program Committee reserves the right to reject abstracts that are deemed to be poorly written or to request an immediate revision of the text to improve its readability.

• Abstracts should not exceed 350 words. When calculating your word count, please note that every table or graph in your abstract counts as 50 words.

• Images are NOT permitted.

• Be sure to indicate the appropriate topic category when submitting your abstract to ensure proper consideration.

• Choose a preferred presentation type (oral or poster). The Congress Program Committee will determine whether the abstract will be accepted as a free paper, moderated poster, or a poster, with consideration given to the author’s preference, available time, and fit in the Congress program.

• Your abstract must include the following sections:

   - Introduction and Objective

   - Materials and Methods

   - Results

   - Conclusions

• Do NOT include references, credits or grant support in your abstract

• The abstract that you upload MUST NOT include the author list. Authors and affiliations are to be submitted on the on-line form only. Only one presenting author is permitted per submission.

• If an author’s name appears on more than one abstract, it must be written in the same way on each abstract to ensure proper indexing.

Rules for authors

• The abstracts must not have been published before. Note that selected abstracts will be published as a supplement in Haemophilia journal, the official Congress Book of Abstracts.

• Rule of Two: Each author may present a maximum of two abstracts at the Congress. However, authors can make an unlimited number of submissions. Should an author have more than two abstracts accepted, a co-author must be named as the presenting author for the third or more abstracts.

• All presenting authors must be paid registrants of the WFH 2018 World Congress by March 23, 2018, for regular abstracts and April 20, 2018, for late-breaking abstracts. After this date, presenting authors who have not paid their registration fees will be excluded from the program, as well as from the Book of Abstracts.

• The submission of an abstract carries with it the obligation that it will be presented at the Congress by the presenting author. Failure to present as scheduled may result in the non-acceptance of future submissions at WFH meetings.

• Each abstract will be blinded and scored by three reviewers. Abstracts will be accepted based on the following criteria: relevance; interpretation of results; originality and novelty; organization; and clarity.

The WFH requires authors to identify any significant conflicts of interest and all outside sources of funding. Authors must include any disclosures at the end of the abstract. Please note that the disclosure word count does not count towards the total abstract word count.

Abstract Sample

Please carefully read the complete guidelines and review the sample abstract, here, prior to submitting an abstract online.

In case of any abstract related queries please contact: abstracts@wfh.org.