USE ARIAL BOLD CAPITAL LETTERS <Paper No> TITLE OF THE PAPER USE ARIAL BOLD CAPITAL LETTERS First A. Author, Author’s affiliation; Second A. Author, Author’s affiliation; Third A. Author, Author’s affiliation. Size: 84 cm (width) x118 cm(height) Introduction 1.) Get your viewer interested about the issue or question while using the absolute minimum of background information and definitions. 2.) Approximately 200 words. Material and methods 1.) Briefly describe experimental equipment and procedure, but not with the detail used for a manuscript; 2.) Use figures and flow charts to illustrate experimental design if possible; 3.) Include photograph or labeled drawings; mention statistical analyses that were used and how they allowed you to address hypothesis. Results and discussion 1.) Mention whether your experiment procedure actually worked; in same paragraph, briefly describe qualitative and descriptive results to give a more personal tone to your poster; 2.) In second paragraph, begin presentation of data analysis that more specifically addresses your hypothesis; refer to supporting charts or images; provide extremely engaging figure legends that could stand on their own 3.) Place tables with legends, too, but opt for figures whenever possible. 4.) Your figures make the poster, so make your graphs appropriate to your data. 5.) This is always the largest section. Conclusions 1.) Remind the reader of the major result and quickly state whether your hypothesis was supported. 2.) Try to convince the visitor why the outcome is interesting; state the relevance of your findings to other published work; future directions. General notes 1.) Add other text boxes if you consider necessary. e.g.: References, Acknowledgements and others. 2.) Try not to make your poster too long. Aim for 800 words. 3.) Use Arial Bold 40 point type for the Main Heading. Use Arial Bold 36 point type for the Second Heading. Use Arial 32 or at least 28 point type for body text 4.) Do not add bullets to section headings. The use of a bolded, larger font is sufficient for demarcating sections. 5.) The width of text boxes should be approximately 40 characters (on average, 11 words per line). Lines that are shorter or longer are harder to read quickly. 6.) Avoid blocks of text longer than 10 sentences. Whenever possible, use lists of sentences rather than blocks of text. 7.) Use italics instead of underlining. Underlining draws too much attention to the word. 8.) Set line spacing of all text to be exactly 1. Doing this protects the aesthetics if you have used super- or sub-scripted text. 9.) Give your graphs titles or informative phrases. You wouldn’t do this in a manuscript for a journal, but for posters you want to guide the visitor. 10.) If you can add miniature illustrations to any of your graphs, do it. Visual additions help attract and inform viewers much more effectively than text alone. Tables benefit from this trick as well. 11.) Make sure that details on graphs and photographs can be comfortably viewed from 1.5 meters away. 12.) If you include a photograph, add a thin gray or black border to make it more visually appealing. 13.) Describe all acronyms and other shorthands used in text. 14.) You can attach your photograph near or on your poster so that people can find you more easily. Notes: 1.) Each author is to bring his/her poster. 2.) Posters mounting boards will be provided, together with pins. 3.) Authors should be present next tot heir poster during the coffee breaks and lunch for poster presentation. 4.) Speak to your viewers as you explain your poster. I.e., don’t talk at your poster. 5.) A typical poster visitor appreciates a 2-sentence overview of why your research is interesting and relevant. Keep it general, and make it clear to the visitor why you find the topic interesting 6.) Attach a few business cards to your poster. Even if you are an academic. 7.) Attach a miniature version of your poster, e.g. an A4 version. 8.) Any poster remaining at the end of the conference will be disposed of.