To help reduce the misuse and misunderstanding of current science, scientific research needs to be explained in language the ...

The brevity of an abstract belies its importance to a manuscript. It’s what catches a reader’s attention and helps them to decide whether a paper is relevant. Yet failing to reflect the content of the ...

A new extension to the PRISMA guideline on reporting systemic reviews and meta-analyses (types of studies that analyse information from many studies) will help authors to give a more robust summary ...

Work can be submitted to one of the five categories. Abstracts that do not contain data may be accepted for an online recording on VoiceThread but will not qualify for an in-person presentation or ...

The Initiative for Open Abstracts (I4OA) calls on all scholarly publishers to open the abstracts of their publications, and specifically to distribute them through Crossref, in order to facilitate ...

What is a research or creative project abstract? An abstract is a compact, concise, and self-contained description of a project and its results or current status. An abstract communicates to the ...

Please note that abstracts that describe programs that address health equity are invited in addition to those describing research projects and plans. To enhance effective communication to an audience ...