Deadline: May 4, 2019

In order to present a notice in the symposium, it is obligatory for the person who will present the notice to make registration to the symposium.

Submission Rules for Notice Abstract

If the notice-owner doctor is a Turkish citizen opthalmologist, they are required to be a member of TOA and not to have due membership fees of that year or preceeding years.
(For those connected to other science disciplines and foreign doctors – even if they are optalmologists – do not need to be a member of TOA.)

Notice abstracts will only be submitted via website.

As the first name, a person can send a study abstract including max. “1 verbal and 1 poster” or “2 posters.” The applications against this will be rejected automatically by the notice acceptance site. Single chronicle case reports will only be sent as posters.

The posters will be presented as e-poster and prepared via online system. Additionally, it does not need to be prepared in a Microsoft – Powerpoint etc. program.

To Send Paper Abstract via Website

Paper abstracts will be submitted via the link (www.todnet.org) on the symposium’s website. Applications via e-mail, written form, fax, disk and other methods will not be accepted.

Only the have the authority for sending paper abstract. For this, the notice-owners must know their TOA identity number and web passwords.

Our members can reach these information by filling up the related form in the Member Information Bank or directly applying to the webmaster@todnet.org with a mail.

For the paper-owners who are not TOA members, the same rules apply. These people will be given a temporary Identity No. and Password that will be valid only during the symposium. For this, they need to fill up the membership form in the website of the symposium (www.todnet.org). Those who undertake to fill up the form in behalf of others are required to learn TOA Id. No and Web Passwords of these people.

The rules of filling up the entry form for paper abstract are given in the related website in detail. In order not to encounter any setbacks, read these rules carefully and especially pay attention to the rules below: 

• Fill in the name and surnames of the authors according to their place in the study.
• Make the subject classification carefully.
• Fill it in accordance with the structure of the abstract. Notice texts must consist of chapters including “Purpose,” “Material and Method,” “Results” and “Discussion.”
• Notice texts must be written in a formal, clear and comprehensible style. There should not be expression or spelling mistakes.
• After each abstract submission or modification processes, access your abstract again in the preview section and control whether it is included in the database the way you want it.
• After the abstract submission, save the confirmation messages which will be sent to your e-mail adress.

Assessment of the Notices

The authors submit their on-line abstracts for the related symposium or course via web information system published in TOD-Net.

1. The deadline of the abstract submission is determined by the related scientific committee. It is obligatory to be at least 45 days before the date of commencement for the symposium.
2. The number of verbal notice to be presented in the symposium and courses are approximately 20 presentations for 120 min. in two groups, each of which are given 60 minutes. In accordance with the programme content, this duration and the number of paper can be arranged by the scientific committee.
3. The authors can present their papers verbally or as posters in the subject titles which are determined. They state these preferences when they send on-line abstract.
4. After the log-in study is sent by the author to the science council, the notice is gathered by the chief referee until the latest submission deadline. When the latest submission deadline is due, the chief referee sends the notices to the assessment board according to their subjects.
5. Assessment board is included by head of unit, secretary and education representative for verbal notices and head of the branch or scientific committee that organizes the symposium or the course, secretary and accountant for posters.
6. Board members complete their assessments in 5 days.
7. All the board members grades verbal studies out of 100 points independently from each other. Average score of the three board member is the last score of the study.
8. In verbal notices, 70 points and above is accepted.
9. If the study which requires verbal notice takes in between 40-69 points, then the chief referee turns the study into a poster and reports this result to the author. The author can present their study as poster or withdraw it for the update.
10. If it gets a score approximately below 40 in verbal notices, it is rejected.
11. As for posters, local assessment board makes a preference as “accept-refuse.”
12. All the posters are prepared in the electronic media.
13. If the verbal presentations that have been accepted are more excessive than the time or the number of notices allocated for the scientific program, they are arranged in accordance with their arrival to the chief referee and placed on the programme.
14. The studies which are accepted but not placed into the programme because of the programme schedule are included in the waiting list without putting into a new evaluation process and can be presented in the scheduled scientific symposium and courses in accordance with the new demand of the authors.
15. In order to give a verbal or poster notice, the person who present it to the scientific programme is stipulated to make a registration. Unless he/she is registrated, his/her right for the presentation is taken away and exluded from the programme. Instead, a substitude study is placed.
16. It is obliged for the 1. Or 2. Name of the study to make the presentation.
17. The authors reserve the right to withdraw their verbal or poster notices that acquire the right for presentation from the meeting. For this, the author gives his/her excuse to the congress regulatory board within 15 days after his/her presentation acceptance letter is conveyed. If his/her excuse is accepted, the planning of his/her study belongs to the author. Requests for change that will be transmitted after the time runs out will not be accepted as it will lead to setbacks in the programme.
    
18. About the authors who receive an acceptance letter after submitting their presentation and do not register to the meeting or make a presentation, action is taken in accordance with the related TOA MYK rules.