Please set-up an Account and submit via our Case Study Portal.  The link for submission is on website under Events.

Guideline for your submission:

Word limit: 500 – excluding title, author name(s), affiliation(s), and references

Title: Maximum word count is 50.   

Presenting Author Bio : Maximum word count 100

Author names: Omit prefixes/suffixes such as Mr, Mrs, Prof, Dr, RN, MD, PhD, etc. Ensure correct spelling and that permission has been secured from all named authors.

Affiliations: should include the institution name and location. Affiliation numbers should be included even if there is only one author and one affiliation. Please use Affiliations number created in the system for author details, eg. 1 or 1,2 instead of typing the name of the institution again.

Case Study Upload : Please copy and paste your Case Study via our Portal. Case Studies should be structured with the following headings as applicable: Background, Methods, Results, Conclusions, Keywords, and Disclosures. Please note we do not accept tables, graphs and figures at this stage in the process. 

Headings & References:  Are not included in the word count.

Co-Author Consent: The submitting author is required to ensure that supervisors and all co-authors are aware of the content of the case study before submission..

Availability for presentation and attendance at prize-giving: if your case study is accepted, one of the authors must attend the Annual Scientific Meeting to make the presentation on Thursday 20th of November at the Case Study Forum.  

Permissions: Encore presentations may be acceptable but encore publications are not. Proper use of quotes, citations and references are encouraged where necessary and appropriate however template writing, citation stacking, excessive aggregation and patch-writing are considered forms of plagiarism.

Accuracy: case studies will not be copy-edited, and you will not be able to edit your abstract when the closing date has passed so please check your submission carefully to ensure that the content is correct and that there are no errors in author names or institutions. 

Support

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