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Download a statement on the equal importance of podium and poster presentations from the ACSMS Scientific and Organising Committee here

Download the poster presentation guidelines here

Download the themed poster presentation guidelines here

Download the podium presentation guidelines here

The judging process for the 2011 Conference Awards:

  • All papers received by the submission deadline of 31 March will be marked and awards’ contenders will be shortlisted. This shortlist will remain confidential.
  • Presentations associated with shortlisted papers will be assessed at the Conference by a panel of judges to determine the winners in the various categories.
  • Best Paper winners will be announced on Saturday 22 October at the beginning of all afternoon sessions (and a list also placed on the Conference notice board). Best Papers winners plus any Best New Investigator Awards deemed by the judges to be of equal merit will be invited to re-present their papers in the Best of the Best session – the final event of the Conference program later on the afternoon of Saturday 22 October. The winner of the Asics Medal for Best Paper Overall will be judged at this session.
  • The winner of the Asics Medal will be announced at the Conference Dinner on the evening of 22 October 2011.

Other conditions relating to the awards:

  • Work submitted must be unpublished and original work not previously presented in Australia.
  • No abstract submitted after 31 March can be considered for an award.
  • Only short listed abstracts will be judged.
  • Papers will be allocated to the Award shortlist at the discretion of the Conference and Judging Committees.
  • Authors are required to select the awards for which they would like to be considered.
  • All Best Paper Award prize money must be spent on furthering research. An appropriate justification of how the money is to be spent will be required of prize winners.
  • Up to three New Investigator Award winners will be considered for the award of a presentation package for the American College of Sports Medicine Meeting in the following year. The package includes a registration waiver and support for travel expenses (to a maximum of AUD$3000) plus a guaranteed place in the ACSM program. Other New Investigator Award winners will receive a $2000 cash prize to be spent on furthering their research.
  • Authors wishing to be considered for a New Investigator Award must be under 40 years of age and no more than 3 years post-doctoral at the time of the Conference. They must select the Best New Investigator Award category when submitting their abstract. Where no age category is selected the paper will only be eligible for the Open Awards.
  • To qualify for an award, all forms of communication (podium and posters) must be presented by the principal author.
  • Any author who is not able to make the presentation must inform the Conference Secretariat within two weeks of receiving the offer to present.
  • All presenting authors must register for the full conference by the 31st August 2011.
  • Any author who is accepted and fails to present will be banned from presenting at the Conference’s for the next two years.
  • The Conference Committee reserves the right to change these terms and conditions and alter prize classification at any stage.
  • To be eligible for the Wendy Ey Women in Sport Award, the research undertaken must focus on women (the presenting author does not have to be female).
  • To be considered for one of the sixteen prestigious Australian Sports Medicine Federation Fellows Awards valued at over $28,000 in total, you must register for the full Conference. All presenting authors must also pay for their registration by 31 August 2011 and be members of Sports Medicine Australia to be eligible for the awards. Membership of SMA is open to both Australian and international delegates.

Hints*

Only use abbreviations for common terms. For uncommon terms, the abbreviation should be given in brackets after the first full use of the word.

If there are <100 in the sample remove the decimal places in percentages: 7 out of 11 is 64% not 63.64%.

Statistical values such as “p” and “r” should be quoted to two places, eg. p<0.05, r=0.94

Give subject ages as mean (to one decimal place and range, not standard deviation, e.g: mean 43.1 years, range 29-68, rather than mean 43.148 years, sd.7.145).

Make your paper clear enough for people from other disciplines to understand.

Understand that there may still be a real difference between two groups, even if the statistical test fails to support it (e.g. because the sample was too small).

*From “Open Letter to Conference Delegates” By Michael Whittle, University of Tennessee

Liability

The Conference organisers accept no responsibility for delay or cancellation of the Conference due to extraneous circumstances.