Thank you for your interest in the biofilms 9 conference. Please follow the guidelines on this page for submission of your abstract. The abstract submission deadline is 28 May 2020. All abstracts published in the biofilms 9 programme will receive a DOI.

Abstract submission recipe

• Use a text editor of your choice to compile your abstract: title, author(s), affiliation(s) of author(s), and abstract text.
• Browse through the topics and select the topic of your interest (see button below).
• Use the abstract submission link at the respective topic.
• You will be asked to log in to the Copernicus Office Meeting Organizer. Use your account data or create a new account.
• Fill in the submittal information about title, author(s), and affiliation(s) of author(s).
• For your abstract body, the submission form provides you with an HTML editor.
• Select your preference for poster presentation or for oral presentation.
• Accept the KIT data protection as well as the licence & copyright agreement and proceed to the abstract preview.
• If the conversion of your abstract fails, please specify your problems and we will then take care of them.
• Submit your abstract. A confirmation message including your abstract number will be displayed and you will receive a confirmation email providing your abstract number. Should you not receive the abstract submission confirmation email within 24 hours, please check your spam folder first and then contact us at: biofilms9@copernicus.org.

In case any questions arise, please do not hesitate to contact us at: biofilms9@copernicus.org.

Abstract guidelines and rules

Abstract text

• The abstract body should be short (100–500 words), clear, concise, and written in English with correct spelling and good sentence structure.
• Mathematical symbols and equations can be typed in or embedded as image.
• Figures and tables should not be included.
• Abstracts should be carefully compiled and thoroughly checked, in particular with regard to the list of authors, before submission in order to avoid last-minute changes.

Responsibilities

• The submission of an abstract carries with it the obligation that it is actually presented at the meeting by the author or, at least, by one of the co-authors. If this is not possible, please withdraw your abstract as early as possible.
• By submitting an abstract, authors accept the licence & copyright agreement.
• Submission of the same abstract to more than one session is not allowed. Duplicates identified by the programme committee will be rejected.
• The content of the abstracts is the responsibility of their authors. The programme committee reserves the right to reject abstracts that are not written in English, are out of the scope of the conference, do not meet basic standards of scientific quality, or do not adhere to conventional standards of civil discourse and common decency.
• The official language of the biofilms 9 conference is English. Simultaneous interpretation is not provided. It is therefore expected that authors are able to present their research more or less fluently in the English language.