How to Submit an Abstract

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Create an account

As part of registration to the Rett World Congress, you will have received a link. A direct link to the page is also below:

RWC Abstract Portal

You can use any email address to create and activate an account on the portal.

The Rett World Congress Portal sign-up page: an email address box and a Next button

Submit Abstract

Submit an Abstract

Once signed in, there will be a single Form/Request that you can click on to begin the submission process – “Abstract Submission”.

The Abstract Submissions Center, with a search box and an Abstract Submission link

Overview and Navigation

Overview of the Form

There are a number of fields to complete.

Fields that are mandatory will have a red asterisk (*) next to their names.

The Presentation Preference and Preferred Stream fields are single-selection fields.

All other fields are either single or multi-line fields.

For the multi-line fields (Author Information, Affiliation/Institution(s), and Abstract fields), you have the option of using plain-text, or you can take advantage of rich-text features.

The abstract submission form: author information, affiliations, title, abstract, keywords, presentation preference (oral or poster) and preferred stream, then a Send button

Feature-rich features

Using rich text fields

The Rich Text ribbon allows you to add the following features to your authors, affiliations or abstract fields:

  • Larger text for Headers
  • Bold/Italic/Underlining
  • Bulleted or numbers lists
  • Font Colour
  • Hyperlinks/URLs
  • Tables, Code snippets, quotations, notices and more.
The formatting toolbar above a field: text style, bold, italic, lists, link and more

Ready to Submit

Ready to Submit?

When you have finished filling out the fields, don’t forget to hit the SEND button to submit your abstract!

You will receive an email (against the one you used to access the Portal) with details on your submission!

The Send button

Checking your submission

Once Submitted… quick layout tips

Once you have submitted your abstract, the page should update to reflect a complete detailed layout of your Submission. Check the screenshot here for details on what’s what.

A submitted abstract with its parts labelled: its ID, its title, when it was submitted, its status (Open) and the details entered

Feedback and corrections

Made a mistake?

Once submitted, you may contact us (and we may contact you!) by adding comments directly to the portal, OR by responding to any of the emails that originate from jira@rettworldcongress.atlassian.net

(This email is part of the free service that we use as part of the Abstract Management platform!)

The Activity area of a submission: a comment from the reviewing team, and a box to add a comment

Our workflow

Our Workflow

We plan to keep it pretty simple – your Abstract will go to an “Open” queue, before being assigned to one of our experts on the Scientific Panel for review.

You will then be notified if and when your Abstract is Accepted or Declined.

For full details on the terms, conditions and timelines/deadlines, please check our main Call for Abstracts page here.

A submission starts as Open, moves to Under review, then is Accepted or Declined.

A Complete Example can be found in PDF format here

Click here to download an example Abstract Submission

Reproduced with thanks to Kingsley Wong, Mohammed Junaid, Scott Demarest, Jacinta Saldaris, Tim A Benke, Eric D Marsh, Jenny Downs, Helen Leonard