Abstracts

The journal will publish a number of abstracts in the Abstracts section. Abstracts are an opportunity to share your work without submitting a full manuscript. The abstract should briefly state the problem or purpose of your research, indicate the theoretical or experimental plan used, summarize the principal findings, and outline your major conclusions.

• The abstract should contain the title and author(s’) information.
• The name of the submitting student should be underlined.
• Use only standard abbreviations.
• Use numerals to indicate numbers except at the beginning of sentences.
• Please use Times New Roman font, size 12, with single spacing.
• The maximum word count is 350 words.
• Use the BMJ style for reference citations.

Example:

Type title of abstract (max 2 lines)

Leave one blank line space between title and authors:

^aStudent RC, Coworker S, ^bFriend K. Departments of ^aSurgery & ^bPathology, Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland, Dublin 2.
Nb. Presenting author should be listed first and submitting student’s name should be underlined

Leave one blank line space between authors and abstract

Abstracts are accepted on the understanding that they have any necessary internal approval from supervisor(s). The text should include: a brief introduction, methods used, results obtained, and a conclusion. Also include where appropriate, the name of the species if the work was in vivo, details of any anaesthesia, and for experiments on human subjects, ethical committee approval should be clearly indicated. The maximum word count is 350 words.

References should be quoted in the text as numbers in parentheses, and listed at the end of the abstract in the style of the BMJ.

Leave one blank line space between abstract and references.

1. You CH, Lee KY, Chey WY, Menguy R. Electrogastrographic study of patients with unexplained nausea, bloating and vomiting. Gastroenterology 1980;79:311-4.

2. The Royal Marsden Hospital Bone-Marrow Transplantation Team. Failure of syngeneic bone-marrow graft without preconditioning in post-hepatitis marrow aplasia. Lancet 1977;2:242-4.

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