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Conference Abstract Instructions
All submitted abstracts should contain the following information. Each abstract should contain the title of the presentation, the names of all authors (with a designation of who will be presenting the abstract), and contact information for at least one of the authors. The body of the abstract should be 100 – 250 words in length, and present an overview of the material to be discussed during the conference presentation. The abstract should answer the basic questions of why the work is relevant to creation science, how was any data collected and analyzed, and what are the major conclusions of the study. The use of abbreviations and references in the abstract should be avoided.
An abstract submitted for presentation at the CRS meeting must be by a voting member, have a voting member as a co-author, or be sponsored by a voting member. A sponsor is someone whose level of participation is well below that of someone who is a co-author. We expect a sponsor to have read and discussed the abstract with the author to be confident that the person is capable of doing an acceptable presentation. We will include the sponsor's name with the abstract, so a sponsor must be willing to at some level have their name attached to what is published and presented.
Keep in mind several things in preparing abstracts:
1. Presentations ought to be new work or works in progress. We fully
expect many of the presentations to be expanded and published elsewhere
later. If we don't think that this is significant new work, we likely will
reject an abstract on those grounds.
2. Keep the abstract just that, an abstract. We've had some submissions that were far too long, and amounted to the entire paper/presentation. The abstract ought to be a brief summary of what you will talk about, with many details left for the presentation. We may reject an abstract if it is too long.
3. The abstract ought to be in proper grammatical form. We may reject an abstract because it isn't properly written.
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