16th International Conference on Early Intervention and Prevention in Mental Health
Conference Abstract Submissions
Please contact conference@iepa.org.au if you have any questions regarding your submission.
To prepare your submission, please read the below guidelines carefully.
Guidelines for submission
- Abstracts must not exceed 300 words (approximately 2000 characters).
- To ensure the best possible presentation of your abstract when it is published, please avoid any unnecessary formatting. Multiple paragraphs will be merged into a single paragraph.
- Line breaks, tabs and multiple spaces will be replaced with single space. As well as formatting, such as italic and bold, is not supported.
- Please check all information thoroughly before submitting, as all information will be published as given.
- All characters < and > must be enclosed by blanks e.g. p < 0.005 not p<0.005
- Figures and graphics will not be accepted.
- Abstracts must be new and must not have been previously presented.
- Overall Title (of the session)
- Symposia abstracts must not exceed 300 words (approximately 2000 characters).
- Name of Chair (Main chair, Co-chairs are optional)
- Names of all presenters (at least 1 presenter per individual talk)
- Titles of individual presentations (must include 4 individual presentations per symposium)
- Abstracts for individual presentations (300 words) that are included in the session
- Figures and graphics will not be accepted.
- All characters < and > must be enclosed by blanks e.g. p < 0.005 not p<0.005
- Abstracts must be new and must not have been previously presented.
- Please provide complete and accurate information on all contributing authors. This includes the full name and email address (institution/organisation and country are preferred but not mandatory) of every (co-)author.
- The first author will be listed in the published program as the speaker.
- Middle name or initials should be entered in the First Name field.
- Do not enter names in all capital or all lowercase letters.
- The person making the submission is wholly responsible for the accuracy of the information. The information will be published (online program) as submitted. Please use your university address, not your personal one.
Presenting authors
Every submission must name one presenting author. The presenting author must register for the conference upon abstract acceptance by, at the latest, 2 March, 2027.
Types of Presentations
Several oral presentations will be grouped together with other related talks in parallel sessions. The slots will be assigned by the program committee.
Duration: | 10 minutes plus 3 minutes Q&A |
|---|---|
Submission as: | Abstract (Oral) |
Format: | Printed poster in portrait format A0 (841 x 1189 mm) |
|---|---|
Submission as: | Abstract (Poster) |
Guidelines: | Guidelines of how to prepare your poster will be available shortly. |
Oral: | Oral presentation - 10 minutes presentation plus 3 minutes Q&A |
|---|---|
Poster: | Your poster will be allocated to one of the poster sessions (per day) |
Submission as: | Abstract/Contribution (Oral/Poster) |
Oral: | 90 minutes, chaired symposium with 4 presentations. 4 presentations by 18 minutes each with a 4 minute discussion. |
|---|---|
Submission as: | Symposium (Session) |
Guidelines: | Guidelines of how to prepare your Symposium will be available shortly. |
General Information
- Contributions must be submitted online.
- All submissions must be written in English and in final form and ready for publication in the Online Abstract Book. Your submission will NOT
- Check your work carefully as no changes will be allowed after the submission deadline.
- All submissions will be evaluated in anonymised form (i.e. without author information) by the scientific committee.
- All communications will be sent to the email address used to submit the abstract or symposia. Your abstract is not successfully submitted until you receive a confirmation email after clicking the final submit button. If you do not receive a confirmation email, please check your spam mailbox or contact conference@iepa.org.au
Neuroscience, Genetics & Biomarkers (combines: Basic Neuroscience, Electrophysiology, Genetics, Neurocognition and Neuroimaging, Stress Responsivity)
Clinical Phenomenology, Diagnosis & Functional Outcomes (combines: Diagnosis and Phenomenology, Functional recovery)
Psychological & Psychosocial Interventions (combines: Psychosocial Interventions)
Pharmacological Interventions & Psychopharmacology (combines: Psychopharmacology)
Population Mental Health, Epidemiology & Environment
(combines: Epidemiology, Climate change and environment))
Equity, Culture, Ethics & Lived Experience (combines: Ethical Issues, Health inequities, Lived experience & careers research, Social and cultural determinants)
Mental Health Systems, Policy & Translation (combines: Public Policy, Service System Development and Reform, Translational Research)
- Contributions will be anonymised before being evaluated by the reviewer group appointed by the scientific program committee.
- Each contribution will be evaluated separately by at least two reviewers.
- The scientific program committee will select contributions for acceptance in a final round of evaluation based on the expert evaluations. The decisions are final.
Submitted contributions will be used for:
- Online evaluation
- The committee’s selection meeting
- Publication of the abstract on the event website upon acceptance
- Publication of the accepted abstracts in conference event program
- Publication of the accepted abstract in the online abstract book
Presenting authors must register for the conference before the close of the early bird rate deadline (EBRD). The organisers reserve the right to remove any presentation from the conference programme if the presenting author (as listed in the Oxford Abstracts system) has not registered
for the conference by the EBRD.
New Zealand International Convention Center
16th International Conference on Early Intervention and Prevention in Mental Health