Abstract Submissions

Submission Guidelines

Fee to submit is US$10 and is non-refundable and not dependant on acceptance of your submission or attendance at the conference. DO NOT DELETE A SUBMITTED ABSTRACT IF YOU NEED TO MAKE CHANGES (you will be charged an additional non-refundable fee to re-submit). To request an opportunity to revise your submission please forward your confirmation email, with your request to revise, to info@capmr.ca.

1. Only original submissions will be accepted for review. Abstracts or papers previously presented at another meeting or published in a journal will not be considered.
2. Authors will be asked to categorize their abstract submissions to facilitate peer review and enable award consideration. Categories are listed below and guidelines for each can be found at capmr.ca/awards or by clicking on the relevant category:
   • Medical Student Essay Contest
   • Medical Student Research Contest
   • Paper of the Year Award
   • Resident Essay Contest
   • Resident Quality Improvement Award
   • Resident Research Contest
   • Poster Abstract (this is a non-contest category)
     • Authors for the POSTER ABSTRACT category will also be asked to identify which sub-category best fits their submission (this does not apply to contest submissions):
       

       Sub-category	Abstract Subheadings
       Original Research:	Context/Objective; Design; Setting; Participants; Interventions; Outcome Measures; Results; Conclusion, and for registered trials, Trial Registration.
       Systematic reviews:	Context; Objective; Methods (data sources, data extraction); Results; Conclusion.
       Education:	Context; Methods (evidence acquisition); Results (evidence synthesis); Conclusion.
       Case Study/Report:	Context; Findings; Conclusion/Clinical Relevance.
       Quality Improvement	Context/Background; Local problem; Methods; Interventions; Results; Conclusion.

3. All submissions must include at least 2 files: a MAIN FILE containing the manuscript/abstract with no identifying information, and an AUTHOR FILE that includes all identifying information, such as author names and affiliations. All identifying information, such as author names and affiliations, must ONLY appear in the author file. (This ensures all reviews are double blind. Figures and tables (optional) may also be uploaded as separate files).
   • The MAIN FILE:
     • Title: Please provide a succinct title. Ideally, the title should contain a reference to the study design.
       • (e.g. "Whole body vibration and osteoarthritis: a retrospective cohort study" or "Use of restraints during geriatric rehab: a systematic review").
     • Body: Content is structured by subheads (each section is treated as a paragraph with no indents), abstract subheadings are followed by a colon.
       • Subheads include but are not limited to: Objective; Design/Methods; Participants; Results; Conclusion.
       • Body of the abstract should be no more than 2,600 characters.
   • The AUTHOR FILE:
     • Author names: For each author name, include their full name, followed by a superscript pair of square brackets containing that author's affiliation number(s).
       • Names are to be written in the following format: "<<First Name>> <<Middle Name/Initial>> <<Last name>>^{[<<Affiation Numeral(s)>>]}"
       • e.g.:  William R Wilkins^[1,2], Heather Dow^[1].
     • Institution Affiliation: A numbered list of author affiliations, where the number preceeding an affiliation is referenced by (one of) an author's affiliation numbers.
       • Affiliations are to be written in the following format: "<<Institution>>, <<City>> <<Prov (abbr)>>, <<Country>>"
       • e.g.:
         1. Event's & Management Plus, Kingston ON, Canada
         2. Trent University, Peterborough ON, Canada
     • Funding Acknowledgement: A list of agencies that provided funding to this work.
       • Agency's are to be written in the following format: "<<Granting Agency>> <<Grant Number>>"
       • e.g.:  Ontario Neurotrauma Foundation 2012-017
     • (optional) Additional Acknowledgements
     • (optional) Additional information: Any information you wish to share with the editors.
   • Additional files:
     • Figures: Figures are to be provided in high resolution (600 dpi or greater) and must be in one of the following formats: .jpg, .tif, .gif, or .pdf.
       • Files are to be named using the corresponding figure number.
       • Large numbers of figures shall be submitted in a single zip file.
     • Tables: Tables are to be provided in word file using Calibri font.
     • Legends: Figure legends are to be provided in a separate word file.
       • Each figure legend shall include the corresponding figure number, a label, a legend, and a sample layout (for multi-image figures).
4. Keywords: Authors are asked to supply up to five keywords (in alphabetical order) to be used as an aid to coding and indexing.
   • Keywords must be selected from the NLM Permuted Medical Subject headings (MeSH) at www.nlm.nih.gov/mesh.