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Author Guidelines

Submitting an abstract

1. Once you register with the ICNC site, you may submit more than one abstract. You don't need to separately register for submitting each abstract. Please note that your login/password details is different to your ICNApedia (The ICNA Main Website) login credentials. Even if you have registered with the ICNApedia website, you still need to register separately for the ICNC2014
2. Abstracts are required for all papers and posters.
3. Abstracts MUST be submitted ONLINE
4. Text must be in single line spacing.The number of words in the abstract is limited to 250

Preparation of Your Abstract

1. A “blind” peer review process will be used. No identifying features such as names of hospitals, medical schools, universities, clinics or cities may be listed in the title or text of the abstract. Do not include the names of authors either. The names of authors and their affiliations (institutions) will be submitted on-line when you submit the abstract.
2. Abstracts which have been presented to a substantially different audience, especially an local or regional one, may be submitted for consideration.
3. Abstracts should state briefly and clearly an introduction, methods or description of the case results and discussion points. The maximum word count is 250 words.
   1. Title: The title should be as brief as possible but long enough to indicate clearly the nature of the study.
   2. Introduction: Describe the context of the research/case and explain its relevance and importance
   3. Methods: Concise description of the process by which the research was conducted
   4. Case Description (if applicable): Report the case using the standard medical sequence
   5. Results: The results or outcome of your work. If you don’t have final results yet in time for the abstract submission, you can either include any preliminaryresults that you do have, or you can briefly mention the results that you expect to obtain. Abstracts without any mention of results or indicated "to be confirmed" will not be accepted.
   6. Conclusion/Discussion: Discuss the reasons for particular decisions being made and highlight any important learning points or lessons.
   7. Acknowledgements can be either mentioned in the text of the abstract or separately in the box provided under supporting agencies
4. Units and Symbols: Metric units according to the System of International Units (SI) should be used.

5. Equations should use the Equation style, tab centred with the number in parentheses on the right, as shown below.

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6. Abbreviations: Use standard abbreviations. For terms that are abbreviated, use the whole the first time, followed by the abbreviation in parenthesis. Abbreviate journal titles according to Index Medicus and give year, volume number and inclusive pages. Use references sparingly within the body of your abstract.
7. References: For journals, mention first author "et al" followed by the name of the journal as abbreviated in the Index Medicus, year, volume number and inclusive pages (i.e. Hardus P et al. Epilepsia 2001;42:262-267.). For book chapters, give first author "et al", editor, title, publisher, city of publication, year and inclusive pages (i.e. Levy RH et al. In: Levy RH et al, Antiepileptic Drugs. Lippincott-Raven, 1996;13-30.)
8. International nonproprietary names and abbreviations for antiepileptic drugs as published in Epilepsia 1993; 34(6):1151, should be used. References for book chapters should consist of editor, title, city of publication, publisher, year and inclusive pages. Non-proprietary names of drugs must be used throughout. If results are considered to be specific for a given proprietary product (for example, bio-equivalence studies), the non-proprietary name must still be used, followed by the proprietary name and the name of the manufacturers in brackets.
9. Supplementary material: You may upload any supplementary material along with your abstract. The files, which can be in any format, might include (a) research instruments, (b) data sets, which comply with the terms of the study's research ethics review, (c) sources that otherwise would be unavailable to readers, (d) figures and tables that cannot be integrated into the text itself, or other materials that add to the contribution of the work.
10. Authors are advised that abstracts without an explicit concluding sentence stating the significance of the findings will not be accepted. It is not satisfactory to say the results will be discussed. Case reports are strongly discouraged unless they present very novel and significant findings or potential therapies, as determined by the ICNC Scientfic Program Review Committee.Please include hard data such as the "n" or "p" of observations and statistical values

The Submission Process

1. Inorder to submitting a new abstract you need to log in to the ICNC2014 website and click on Abstract Submission and follow the instructions.
2. You need to register with the site before you can submit an abstract.
3. Submitting an abstract is a multi-step process. You need to carefully complete all steps to successfully submit an abstract. If at any point you need help you can always contact icnc@icnapedia.org. There are several options for requesting help which are clearly indicated throughout the site.
4. NOTIFICATIONS: Acceptance emails will be sent out in October 2013. Authors are required to confirm their plan to present at the ICNC2014 upon receipt of the acceptance email. If the abstract is withdrawn for any reason prior to the meeting, authors are responsible for notifying the ICNC2014 Office immediately at icnc@icnapedia.org. Authors may login to their account at the ICNC2014 at any time to verify the progress of their submission.
5. At least one author for each abstract that is accepted for presentation in the Conference Program is expected to register and pay to attend the Conference to present their research. All of the costs to attend the Conference, including the registration fee, must be paid by presenters
6. If you have any disability which impairs your efficient use of the system, please contact +447859018374 or email icnc@icnapedia.org. We will endeavour to help you with the submission process.

Submission Preparation Checklist

1. The submission has not been previously published, nor is it before another conference for consideration (or an explanation has been provided in Comments to the Scientific Program Committee). Abstracts which have been presented to a substantially different audience, especially a local or regional one, may be submitted for consideration
2. The supplemenatry files  are in OpenOffice, Microsoft Word (DOCX or DOC) , RTF, or Microsoft Excel format.
3. All URL addresses in the text (e.g., http://www.icnapedia.org) are activated and ready to click.
4. The text is single-spaced; uses a 12-point font; employs italics, rather than underlining (except with URL addresses); All illustrations, figures, and tables are placed in the supplementary files if required
5. The text adheres to the stylistic and bibliographic requirements outlined in the Author Guidelines, which is found in About the Conference.
6. All authors' names are removed from the text of the submission and also from the supplementary files, with "Author" and year used in the bibliography and footnotes, instead of authors' name, paper title, etc.
7. All Microsoft Office documents (including Supplementary Files) have been saved by going to File and selecting Save As; clicking Tools (or Options in a Mac); clicking Security; selecting "Remove personal information from file properties on save"; clicking Save.

Copyright Notice

Authors who submit to this conference agree to the following terms:

1. Authors retain copyright over their work, while allowing the conference to place this unpublished work under a Creative Commons Attribution License, which allows others to freely access, use, and share the work, with an acknowledgement of the work's authorship and its initial presentation at this conference.
2. The material submitted to the conference including any audio or video recording made during the conference may be published on ICNApedia, the Child Neurology Knowledge Environment developed and maintained by the ICNA and JICNA, the Journal of the International Child Neurology Association
3. Authors are able to waive the terms of the CC license and enter into separate, additional contractual arrangements for the non-exclusive distribution and subsequent publication of this work (e.g., publish a revised version in a journal, post it to an institutional repository or publish it in a book), with an acknowledgement of its initial presentation at this conference.
4. Authors may instruct the ICNA / ICNApedia editors NOT TO publish online any conference material which includes unpublished results or material for which consent has not been obtained for this particular purpose, for eg clinical video clips. Please note this in the "comments for the Scientific Program Review Committee" box.

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