Call for Abstracts
Abstract Submission Now Open
Abstracts will be accepted for presentation at Neuroscience 2023 until Wednesday, June 14, 5 p.m. EDT. Abstracts must be finalized before the submission deadline, including payment of the nonrefundable $155 submission fee.
Emeritus, regular, postdoc, or student (graduate or undergraduate) SfN membership is required for abstract submission. Affiliate and institutional members are not eligible to submit abstracts. Make sure your membership is up-to-date prior to submitting. Join or renew now.
SfN members are each allowed to submit one scientific abstract and one Theme J (History, Education, and Society) abstract.
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How to Submit
Get ready to submit your abstract by reviewing the requirements and submission process details.
Register now for the How to Submit an Impactful Abstract for Neuroscience 2023 webinar taking place June 6, 2023, 3–4 p.m. EDT.
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Presentation Formats
Abstract presentations are accepted into either poster or nanosymposia sessions.
- Watch on-demand the How to Organize a Nanosymposium webinar from May 22.
Virtual poster presentations are also available to presenters as a part of the NS23 virtual component.
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Scientific Rigor in Annual Meeting Presentations
Accepted abstract presenters will be expected to transparently report a study’s experimental design and analytical methods in their poster or nanosymposium presentation at the annual meeting. Efforts to ensure scientific rigor include blinding, statistics, sample sizes, and replication. Error bars should be defined. Biological variables such as species, sex, age, strain, or cell line should be noted in the presentation, if applicable.
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Justify Your Abstract Presentation
Download this letter to help secure your participation at Neuroscience 2023.
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Abstract Length
The body of the abstract should be no more than 2,300 characters, including punctuation but not spaces. Use this range as a frame of reference, then count characters and revise accordingly.
Use standard abbreviations. When using abbreviations for chemical compounds, spell it out in full for the first mention, followed by the abbreviation in parentheses. Do not abbreviate compounds in the abstract title. -
Themes and Topics
Accepted abstracts are organized into topically-based scientific sessions and Theme J sessions. Abstracts are grouped together based on the theme and topic that abstract submitters select from the Themes and Topics list during abstract submission. Theme and topic selections help the Program Committee to group abstracts; they do not represent the titles of annual meeting sessions.
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Sessioning Process
Abstracts are reviewed and assigned to topically-based sessions by the SfN Program Committee. Abstract submitters can use linking groups to suggest other presenters that they would like to be grouped with in a session.
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Notice of Abstract Acceptance Status
Communications regarding abstracts are sent to presenting authors only. Other co-authors should ask their abstract's presenting author for information regarding their abstract. Presenting authors will be notified about their abstract's acceptance status in August.
Advance registration for members opens on July 12. Abstract presenters must register in order to present at the annual meeting. Presenters may choose to wait to complete their registration until after they have received their abstract acceptance notification in August.
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Trainee Professional Development Award
The Trainee Professional Development Award (TPDA) recognizes undergraduate students, graduate students, and postdoctoral fellows who demonstrate scientific merit and excellence in research.
Applications will be accepted June 15–June 29.
Abstract Submission Policies
Rules for Abstract Submissions
Read over the rules for submitting an abstract to Neuroscience 2023.
Abstract Licensing Agreement
Review the terms of use agreed to when submitting an abstract for Neuroscience 2023.
Embargo Policy
Report original research.
- At the time of abstract submission, the study should not have been previously published verbatim as a scientific article or meeting abstract. Note that interim research products, including manuscripts deposited to a preprint server, are eligible for abstract submission.
- The abstract may not be presented verbatim at another meeting prior to the scheduled SfN presentation. Some aspect of the abstract must be original in the current SfN submission to reflect new progress.
All authors must abide by SfN's embargo policy.
- Research within an abstract to be presented at an SfN event is embargoed until the start of the in-person presentation of the abstract — unless the abstract falls within one of the two categories below. Abstracts within one of the two categories below are embargoed until the start of the SfN event’s in-person programming.
- Abstracts uploaded to the SfN-event virtual platform prior to the start of the SfN event’s in-person programming.
- Abstracts involved in an SfN-hosted press conference during the SfN event.
- Journalists and PIOs: see SfN’s Media Policy and Credentials for additional details.
