How to have the abstracts of your meeting published

BMC Abstracts Service

Online publication can be a very effective means of making abstracts from your meeting available to the scientific community, and provides an excellent way to promote your meeting to a wide audience. Each abstract included in BioMed Central has a unique citation. Abstracts are fully searchable and are made freely available online. Each abstract is also given a unique url in order that they can be easily located on the Internet. Abstracts may be published before or after a meeting. [Browse abstracts]

Acceptance policy

Acceptance is at the discretion of BioMed Central's Editorial Directors. A decision is made on the basis of sample abstracts, the meeting program and its suitability for publication within BioMed Central. Meeting organizers are required to confirm that abstracts presented for publication have been reviewed and selected as suitable for publication.

Submitted abstracts should be a maximum of 400 words long, clearly and concisely written, and structured where appropriate. BioMed Central retains the right to reject any submissions which do not meet the required standard.

Currently, we can only accept abstracts written in English, and supplied electronically.

If you wish to publish your meeting abstracts with BioMed Central please email for a quotation, including the following information about the meeting:

• Full contact details (name, address, telephone, fax and email address)


• Title, date and place of meeting


• Program


• Expected number of delegates


• Expected number of abstracts


• Approximate length per abstract


• Estimated submission date
• Sample abstracts (these may be from either a forthcoming or a previous meeting)

We request that meeting organizers:

1. send a call for papers on behalf of BioMed Central to presenting authors, and (where possible) to delegates.
2. help us to promote BioMed Central via literature and websites produced for the meeting.

Editorial policy

Abstracts will be reproduced on BioMed Central as submitted by the organizers; we do not edit or proofread. Organizers are asked to check the text online prior to publication. Alternatively a proofreading service can be made available if required and we will be pleased to provide a quotation on request.

Print copies

We can produce printed copies of your abstracts. If you would like a quotation, please send an email, including the following information:

• Delivery date for printed copies


• Number of printed copies required

Proceedings

We can arrange to publish proceedings from your meeting online at BioMed Central and/or in print. If you require further information, please email.