Rules for submission

Presentation Type: Abstracts may be submitted for Oral Communication Session, e-Poster Presentation or e-Poster Viewing. The Scientific Programme Committee will determine whether the abstract will be accepted for presentation, with consideration given to the author’s preference.

All abstracts must be submitted and presented in clear English with accurate grammar and spelling of a quality suitable for publication. If you need help, please arrange for the review of your abstract by a colleague who is a native English speaker, by a university-specific publications office (or another similar facility) or by a copy editor, prior to submission.

Please ensure that your abstract does not contain spelling, grammatical or scientific errors, as it will be reproduced as submitted. No proofreading will be done. It is not possible to modify abstracts after the submission deadline.

The work described in the abstract needs to have an appropriate approval under local, ethical and animal experimentation rules.

Abstracts must be original and must not be or have been published or presented at any other meeting prior to the Congress.

Submissions may not contain patient names, hospital ID numbers or other identifying information.

The inclusion of trade names/brand names is not allowed in the abstract. Please use generic names of drugs. The mentioning of agents/molecules must follow the scientific standard for publications. The presentation must be balanced and contain no commercial promotional content.

Conflict of interest: It is the intent of EPA to provide high quality sessions focused on educational content that is free from commercial influence or bias. Thus the submitting author of an abstract is requested to declare any potential conflicts of interest for all authors during the abstract submission.

An abstract can only be submitted if the “Declaration” on the online abstract form is read and accepted.

Please note that each person may submit up to 5 abstracts as a presenting author. Whilst the Organisers will try to avoid scheduling conflicts, these might occur. In this case, one of the listed co-authors needs to take over the presentation.

Abstract typing instructions

For standardisation, the acceptable length of the abstract is limited to 3000 characters and 45 lines, with authors’ details, headers and tables included. This also includes non-visible characters such as spaces as well as punctuation.

The abstract should be structured into the following sections:

• A title which clearly indicates the nature of the investigation
• Introduction
• Objectives
• Methods
• Results
• Conclusions

Up to three tables can be included in the Results section with the following criteria:

• Maximum number of columns: 10
• Maximum number of rows: 10

Tables count towards the total number of allowed characters and lines.

Up to three images/graphs can be included. They should be of high quality, and lettering/symbols/lines should be clear and distinct. Images will be reduced to one column width.

The system only accepts images that fulfil the following criteria:

• Image width: min. 50 pixels – max. 600 pixels
• Image height: min. 50 pixels – max. 800 pixels
• Image quality: min. 96 dpi – max. 300 dpi
• Image file size: min. 40 KB – max. 1000 KB
• Allowed file types: gif, jpg

All tables, figures, and reference citations must be referred to in the text of the abstract. If there is no reference in the text, the table/figure/reference (as applicable) will be removed from the abstract before publication.

If references are essential, they should be within the text, in the form: (Murphy et al. BJU Int 2005; 95 27-30).

Face to Face Registration

Registration includes:

• Participation in all scientific sessions (excluding pre-paid EPA Courses, which are an additional fee)
• Opening ceremony and welcome reception
• Access to the exhibition area
• Refreshments during coffee breaks as indicated in the programme
• Meeting the speakers and experts in person 
• Dedicated time and place for networking
• Access session recordings on-demand, for up to three months once the congress has ended (a selection of the programme)
• Earn CME credits: participate in the scientific programme and be eligible to receive the number of CME credits assigned to the Congress