Online Submission
The online system will guide you through each step of the submission process and prompt you for all required
information. The items you will need to prepare prior to beginning your online submission include:
- Type of submission (poster or symposium)
- Title (limited to 250 characters)
- Key phrases (up to three may be included and should be listed in order of relevance)
- Contact information for organizer and first author (full name, academic degree, organization, address, telephone, and e-mail address)
- Contact information for chairperson and discussants (full name, academic degree, organization, telephone, and e-mail address)
- Contact information for paper authors (full name, academic degree, organization)
- A 75-word abstract of the paper (this may be copied/pasted into the system)
- A summary of the submission (800-1000 words created in Word, or PDF). Key references
must be included, but do not count toward the word limit. Up to two tables or figures may be included as
appropriate, but must be embedded in the summary document.
For symposium submissions, the information listed above must be prepared for each paper as well as the
submission as a whole.
By preparing these items prior to beginning your submission, an average poster submission takes
approximately 15 minutes to input online; symposia take approximately 20-25 minutes.
For all submission types: to ensure a blind review, no presenter or author names, agencies, organizations, or
other identifying information should appear anywhere in the submission. Submissions on a particular program
may not name the program, location, staff members, or affiliate organizations involved with the program.
Submissions that do not conform to these standards will not be reviewed.
Once you have logged into the system, you should set up a unique login and
password for future access to the system (e.g. additional submissions). To access the
online Poster/Symposium
submission system, select the "Submit Poster/Symposium" link in the navigation bar.
The online system will send an e-mail to
the first author confirming that your submission has been processed. You can also go back into the system at
any time to review your submission. If you cannot complete the entire process at one time, the online system allows you to save a draft of your
submission, exit the system, and return to update it at a later time. In addition, the online system includes
error checks for missing information and shows you a complete draft of your submission before you finalize it.