Abstracts

Abstract Draft Guidelines

Length

• max 2500 characters, excluding spaces

Include:

• Title

• Authors (you and your mentors)

• Motivation and Background

• Question or Goal

• Methods and Data

• Results

• Discussion and Future work

Avoid:

• undefined words or phrases

• vagueness

• sloppy grammar

From the ABRCMS National Conference website: “Your abstract must contain a hypothesis or statement about the problem under investigation, a statement of the experimental methods/methodology used, essential results provided in summary form (even if preliminary), and a conclusion that explains how the work contributes to the hypothesis or statement of problem.”

See, also, the ABRCMS guidelines for preparing an abstract: https://abrcms.org/index.php/present-at-abrcms/competitive-abstract