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In preparing to submit an abstract to GSA, you should first gather the following information:

A. Pick the meeting at which you would like to present your paper.

B. GSA meetings are usually built in part around some symposia or themes identified in the call for papers.  Determine if your paper would fit neatly under one of those topics.  (Even if   it does not, you can still submit for inclusion in the general discipline sessions.)

C. Determine under what discipline category your paper best fits. You may select up to three other relevant categories.
  The list of discipline categories includes:

D. Select your preferred mode of presentation: Oral, Poster, or Either (no preference). Please Note: The program organizers will do their best to fit you into your preferred mode. However, they will override your original mode selection if they feel your paper would fit well in a particular session with other compatible abstracts. The decision of the program organizers is final.

E. Title and Keywords
(1) Pick a title for your paper.
(2) Select up to five keywords.

F. Have available the name and contact information for all of the authors. (Include their email addresses, please.). No more than 10 authors may be listed on a paper. Group names will not be accepted as an author.

G. Write the body of your abstract.

• Please keep it to 2000 characters or less, not counting spaces.  (The online abstract system will reject it if it exceeds 2000 characters.)
• If you want to include a table,with your abstract, you can.  But understand that the table might reduce the number of words allowed in your abstract.  Taken together, the words and tables should take up no more space than would be occupied by a simpler abstract of 2000 characters alone.
• Check the spelling of the abstract’s body and title using your own word processor. 
• Then read it again and make sure that it is something the whole world should see.  (We won’t check or edit it for you.)
• If your abstract includes more than one complicated equation, or a table, or a lot of subscripts, superscripts, Greek letters we suggest that you save it in HTML format (for further information, see our How to Submit HTML Files ). If you simply try to copy-and-paste that abstract into the submission form, you will lose all of those special elements or find it tedious to restore them.  As a quick and easy alternative, we allow you to upload the HTML-format abstract – automatically preserving any special formatting.  (Although this HTML option is available, 90% of authors can use the simple copy-and-paste method of submission.)
• For typing and pasting, add an extra line between paragraphs or they will run together when displayed. (You can do this before copying, or after pasting, or while typing).
• Word 2000 suggestions.  If you have used Word 2000 to convert a Word file to an html file, be aware that Word 2000 adds some Microsoft-specific code to the file. We recommend that you download and install the Office 2000 HTML Filter, which will remove this unneeded code before it saves your html page.

When you are about to submit your abstract text, you will be asked for some information:

Would you prefer to type or paste your abstract text into a submission form, or would you prefer to upload it as an HTML file? (You select either Type/Paste Text, or Upload HTML file).

If you have problems, first consult the Troubleshooting link in the Abstract Control Panel, or review the How to submit, modify, or withdraw an abstract link

Before you begin your submission you can familiarize yourself with the submission process by viewing our Submission Instructions.

If you are new to using the Internet, you also should check the following:

1. Your browser must have JavaScript enabled. See our instructions on Enabling JavaScript.

2. Check your browser’s caching status.  Otherwise your browser may display an older version of a page that you have changed, and it will appear that your changes did not “take”.
   • For Explorer 5.0, or 5.5 for Windows, go Tools – Internet Options – General – Temporary Internet files – Settings… – click the Every visit to the page button under Check for newer versions of stored pages. Try clicking the Delete files button in the Temporary Internet files.
   • For Netscape, Edit – Preferences – Advanced – Cache: Select Every time for Document in cache is compared to document on network:
   • Also click the Clear Memory Cache and Clear Disk Cache buttons.
3. We recommend maximizing your browser’s window because some of the pages are long and have important buttons near the bottom.

You are ready to submit when you have available all of the information listed above, preferably in an open window on your computer.  Then just point your web browser at the online submission system.  If you are quick with a mouse and a keyboard, you should be able to copy-and-paste your way to a complete submission in just a few minutes.

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