Instructions for oral presentations:

Each oral presentation is limited to 20 minutes (including questions).

Instructions for posters:

Poster boards measuring 1 m wide by 2 m high will be available for displaying your poster.  The size of the poster should not exceed 85 cm wide/120 cm high.

Tips:

Our top 10 general tips for consideration when designing and preparing your poster:

• Avoid excessive text! This is the most common mistake made in posters. Aim for 800 to 1000 words or less.
• Minimum recommended font size, to be legible, is 30pt. Make sure your title, authors, headings and subheadings are at least this size in a sans serif font (i.e. Arial, Futura, Helvetica).
• A good starting point (but only a starting point) for font sizes by section is:
  • Title: 82pt
  • Authors: 54pt
  • Headings/Sub-Headings: 38pt
  • Body text: 24-28pt
  • Captions: 18-20pt
• Ensure your figures, images and graphs are also legible.
• Use sans-serif fonts for Titles, author list, headings, sub headings and bullet lists, use serif font (i.e. Garamond, Palatino, Verdana) for paragraphs of text and captions.
• Use no more than 2 fonts, avoid drop shadows and 3D effects on text.
• Do not use UPPER CASE or underlines to set off text, it makes it harder to read. Instead use bold or italics or both to emphasize words and short phrases.
• Left align paragraphs (or left justified, ragged right) - using full justification in a program other than LaTeX, InDesign or Quark often leads to large gaps between words which makes it difficult to read.
• The width of text boxes should be between  45 and 70 characters. Lines that are shorter or longer are harder to read quickly.
• Visually the space use in a poster should be in the range of 20-25% text, 40-50% figures and 30-40% white space.