title: How to prepare and submit abstracts for scientific meetings.
abstract: The presentation of study results is a key step in scientific research, and submitting an abstract to a meeting is often the first form of public communication. Meeting abstracts have a defined structure that is similar to abstracts for scientific articles, with an introduction, the objective, methods, results and conclusions. However, abstracts for meetings are not presented as part of a full article and, therefore, must contain the necessary and most relevant data. In this article, we detail their structure and include tips to make them technically correct.
authors.affiliation: Instituto de Pesquisa Clínica Evandro Chagas, Fundação Oswaldo Cruz - Fiocruz - Rio de Janeiro RJ, Brazil. andre.japiassu@ipec.fiocruz.br
authors.forename: Andre Miguel
authors.initials: AM
authors.lastname: Japiassú
mesh_terms: D000043:Abstracting and Indexing / Q000379:methods* / Q000592:standards; D003142:Communication; D003226:Congresses as Topic; D006801:Humans; D012106:Research
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