Guidelines for Abstract Presentation

• A title (in capital letters) that clearly indicates the nature of the investigation needs to be provided.
• Abbreviations should be avoided in titles, but may be used in the text if they are defined at first usage.
  
• The authors’ names (full first names, family names) and places of work (institution, city, country) must be shown, but omit degrees, titles, appointments, postal address and acknowledgement of support.The abstract should be as informative as possible:
  • State the specific objective of the study
  • State the methods used, if pertinent
  • Summarise the results obtained
  • State the conclusions reached
• Please ensure that your abstract does not contain spelling, grammatical or scientific errors, as it will be reproduced exactly as submitted.
• Statements such as “data will be presented” will lead to automatic rejection of the abstract.
  

The reviewers will judge the abstracts according to the relevance to GASTRO 2009, standard of English, objectivity of statement, description of what was done, suitability of methods in relation to aims, conclusions confirmed by objective results, ethics, scientific value, potential clinical value, originality of work and overall impression.