General Abstract Guidelines 

Abstracts for oral presentations, posters, and symposia must be submitted using the Abstract Submission system on the ewrs.org website ONLY.  A link is provided at the bottom of this page.

Please read following guidelines carefully before submitting!

In the case that electronic submission is not possible, please contact the EWRS at info@ewrs.org.

1. Title of presentation: Please choose a brief title (maximum of 100 characters) that clearly indicates the content of the contribution. Please avoid abbreviations in the title. Abbreviations may be used in the text if they are defined when first used. Please do NOT CAPITALIZE the title.
2. Principal author: Name, highest educational degree obtained, email and complete mailing address, cell and work telephone numbers, institution, business affiliation (department, school, agency, or company, etc.), city and state. In instances of multiple authorship, the person whose name is listed first is expected to deliver the presentation. You can indicate this by checking a box.
3. Co-authors: their names, highest educational degree obtained, their institution/business information, country.
4. Area of Interest: multiple Areas of Interest can be chosen. If your area in interest is not in the list you can enter one.
5. Abstract: Please ensure that your abstract is text only and contains no more than 350 words. Diagrams, illustrations, tables, references or graphics are not allowed. Provide maximum relevant information in the abstract, Abstracts should clearly state: a) background and objectives: state the rationale or hypothesis followed by objectives; b) methods: briefly discuss the design of the study/program and how it weas conducted; c) results and discussion: present the main results with appropriate statistics/data analysis and briefly discuss the results; d) conclusions: limit the conclusions to those that are directly supported by the results.
6. Tags: Please indicate 3 – 5 tags (keywords) for your abstract.

Nomenclature and Units:

All biotica (crops, plants, insects, etc.) should be identified by their scientific names. Use italics for Latin names, do not underline. Common names for weeds may be indicated in parenthesis at the first mention of the Latin name. Use common names for crops.

Use the international system of units (SI). If other units are mentioned, please give their equivalent in SI.

Application of herbicides must be given with full details of techniques used to apply (e.g. type of equipment, type of nozzle, pressure, volume of spray, etc.) and of the amount of active ingredient applied per unit area.

Math formulae

Present simple formulae in the line of normal text where possible. In principle, variables are to be presented in italics. Subscripts and superscripts should be clear. Give the meaning of all symbols immediately after the equation in which they are first used.
Levels of statistical significance which can be mentioned without further explanation are: *P <0.05, **P <0.01 and ***P <0.001

Link to Abstract submission

Congress presentation formats individuals

By providing a flexible way of submitting abstracts, we are inviting you to help compose the overall congress scientific programme. Papers may be submitted as individual presentations or as a part of a symposium:

Oral Presentations: 15-minute time slot
Papers submitted to the thematic areas will be grouped together by the thematic area chairperson into paper sessions allotted of 15 minutes including discussion.

Posters: size of the poster 200 cm (height) x 90 cm (width)
Poster sessions allow presenters and attendees to engage in extended personal discussions regarding presentations that is in paper/cloth or electronical format.

NOTE: Participants who wish to submit an individual paper may choose between an oral presentation and poster. Both oral presentations and posters submitted and accepted by the Scientific Committee will be handled within the grouped by thematic sessions category topics and the best effort will be exercised to create groups of presentations related by their themes in order to promote networking among the presenters and their audience and in order to facilitate meaningful discussion. As the distinction between oral presentations and posters is only a matter of the presentation mode, submissions in both categories will be assessed by the same scientific criteria. The Scientific Committee will determine the final mode of presentation, also taking into account the quality of the proposals, their relationships, temporal and technical possibilities.