| Abstract submission system opening: | 1 October 2009 |
| Abstract submission deadline: | 19 January 2010 |
| Confirmation of abstract acceptance: | 20 February 2010 |
| Deadline for reduced participants registration fee: | 1 March 2010 |
| - | Authors may submit electronically more than one abstract; however, each abstract must be submitted separately. |
| - | On 19 January 2010 the submission system will be closed. At this date, all sent abstracts will be regarded as submitted to NOF and passed to the reviewers. Deleting or editing of abstracts after this deadline is not possible. |
| - | Due to the expected amount of abstracts, there will be no correspondence about uncomplete or wrongly formatted abstracts. Without further notice, those abstracts wont be reviewed. |
| - | Without further notice, abstracts recognized as cross-submission will not be reviewed |
| - | Abstracts will not be accepted unless formatted according to following instructions. |
| - | The total of all characters, including spaces (blanks) and including the title must not exceed 3000 characters. |
| - | This system was designed to allow text and symbols from all of the writing systems of the world to be consistently represented and manipulated. In any case if you are cutting and pasting your text from another application (i.e. Word), please be sure to check all special characters. |
| - | The electronic submission forms are not supporting tables, images or charts. |
| - | Speakers must adhere strictly to the scheduled times according the programme. |
| - | Only computer projection will be available. No overhead or slide projectors will be available in meeting rooms, and it will not be possible to use personal laptops. |
| - | Speakers are kindly requested to use PowerPoint (Office 03/07, Windows or Mac). The uploading of DVD movies is NOT supported. |
| - | We recommend using “.gif” and “.jpg” formats for images. Other types of extension will be accepted, provided that they are recognised by PowerPoint.
MPEG2 is the preferred format for embedded movies, but *.avi, *.wmv are also accepted. If codecs are used, the code package DIVx in the current version should be chosen. This can be found at www.divx.com. Confirm that all needed files are in the SAME FOLDER as your presentation. |
| - | Use large fonts (the minimum font size should be 18 points ). If you cannot fit all your subjects on a slide without moving to a smaller font, break the points up onto separate slides. Sans serif fonts are recommended. |
| - | Confirm that your presentation contains only standard fonts. For cross-platform compatibility, the use of Times Roman, Arial, Verdana is advised. Some other fonts may not transfer properly from your computer to the system used for presentation. |
| - | Limit each slide to one main idea with three to six points. More than six points (bullets) and your audience will have difficulty reading the slide. |
| - | The use of CD-Rom’s, USB pens or memory sticks is advisable to download presentations easily at the AV Preview Centre. |