Eligibility

To submit an abstract, you must create an account on the official website of BACO-25. Presenting Authors must be registered participants. Only abstracts of authors who have paid their registration fees by the Early Registration Deadline (30 April 2025)will be scheduled for presentation and included for publication. Authors are required to consent to the collection and use of personal information and the “Copyright Transfer Agreement” during abstract submission.

Types of presentations

Abstracts may be submitted for oral, poster, or oral/poster presentation. The Symposia Conveners will determine whether the abstract will be accepted for presentation, taking into account the author’s preference. The Symposia Conveners and Scientific Program Committee also reserve the right to reassign presentation to other symposia.

Abstract formatting

The length of the abstract text must be between 200 (minimum) and 500 (maximum) words, which will be automatically counted by the submission system. Tables, figures, references, and other graphics are not allowed. You will be able to modify your abstract in the submission system until the submission deadline.

Abstract submission fee

Abstract submitters must pay a separate submission fee ($60 USD) for each abstract submitted. Abstract submission fees are non-refundable. Abstract submission does not automatically guarantee acceptance.

Withdrawing abstract

Presenting authors may withdraw their abstract from the submission system before the submission deadline. After the deadline, please contact the Scientific Program Committee(abstract@baco-25.org).

Questions

If you have any questions about the abstract submission process, please contact the Scientific Program Committee (abstract@baco-25.org)

ABSTRACT SUBMITTERS’ DECLARATION

• I confirm that I have previewed this abstract and that all information is correct. I accept that the content of this abstract cannot be changed after final submission and I understand that it will be published as submitted.
• By submitting the abstract, all authors agree to publication (e.g. on the website, in programmes, other promotions, etc.)
• The Abstract submitter warrants and represents that no part of the information and content provided by him/her (hereafter referred to as “Content“) to BACO-25 or the publication of any such Content by each of the organizing committee, on the internet or otherwise infringes any third party rights, including but not limited to privacy rights and/or intellectual property rights.
• The Abstract submitter grants each of the organizing committee the license and right to use, reproduce, publish, translate, distribute, and display the Content or any part thereof, in any manner and on any platform or media whatsoever, in each organizer’s absolute discretion, on a royalty-free, perpetual, irrevocable nonexclusive basis. See “Licence & Copyright”.
• I herewith confirm that the contact details saved in this system are those of the presenting author, who will be notified about the status of the abstract. The presenting author is responsible for informing the other authors about the status of the abstract. The submitting author may request to be copied on the abstract correspondence.
• I understand that the presenting author must be a registered participant. The Scientific Program Committee reserves the right to exclude from publication and/or presentation any abstract that does not comply with the above.
• I understand that I must select a symposium for my abstract assignment. The Scientific Program Committee reserves the right to change the symposia under which the abstract was originally submitted.
• I confirm that I have received the consent of all authors for their contact details to be processed by the Scientific Program Committee.
• The abstract and its presentation materials are distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License (CC BY 4.0). If the presentation materials cannot follow the CC BY 4.0 License, the authors must clearly mark this in the presentation materials file. In either case, the authors grant organisers the right to hold their presentation materials online for viewing and download by individuals. The CC BY License, of which 4.0 is the recent version, was developed to facilitate open access – namely, free immediate access to, and unrestricted reuse of, original works of all types.

Copyright Transfers

• Many authors have strict regulations in their contracts of employment regarding their work. A transfer of copyright to the institution or company is usual, as well as the reservation of specific usage rights is typical. Please note that in the case of abstract publication with the Creative Commons License, a transfer of the copyright to the institution is possible, as it belongs to the author anyway.
• Any usage rights are regulated through the Creative Commons License. Anyone (the author, his/her institution/company, as well as the public) is free to copy, distribute, transmit, and adapt the work as long as the original author is given credit (see above). Therefore, specific usage rights cannot be reserved by the author or his/her institution/company, and the publisher cannot include the statement “all rights reserved” in any published abstract.
• A copyright transfer from the author to his/her institution/company will be expressed in a special “Copyright Statement” at the end of the abstract rather than in the abstract citation header. Authors are asked to include the following sentence: “The author’s copyright for this abstract is transferred to the institution/company“.