ABSTRACT TEMPLATE FOR BIODENTAL 2012 - “TITLE” STYLE, MAXIMUM 2 LINES

Firstname Lastname (1), Firstname Lastname (2), Firstname Lastname (3)

Enter the affiliation information here (“Affiliation” style)1. Affiliation, e-mail; 2. Affiliation, e-mail; 3. Affiliation, e-mail

Headings use “Heading” styleThe required text styles illustrated in this Microsoft word document must be used as a template for production of abstracts, by replacing the relevant text with your own.The easiest way to use this abstract form is by cutting and pasting unformatted text into each section to maintain the document’s present format. The abstract should include the following sections: Introduction, Material and methods, Results and discussion, Conclusions and References.The text of the abstract body is Times New Roman, 10 point, single-spaced (“Normal” style). Include an empty line before each new section.Page layout is A4 portrait, 2.5 cm margins. Text boxes for title, authors and affiliations must not be moved.Abstracts must not exceed one page (a word count of approximately 500 words).Please submit the abstract as a word document to rnatal@fe.up.pt.The abstracts should be submitted before October 15th.

Figures and tablesPlease number figures and tables consecutively in the document.Figures should be embedded directly in the document.To reduce the size of your final abstract, it is possible to compress all images in the document by right-clicking on an image, choosing Format Picture, Compress and reducing all images in the document to printing resolution.Captions should be included below the respective figure or table, using the “Captions” style.

Figure 1: Figure captions are entered below the figures.

Column A Column B Column CA1 B1 C1A2 B2 C2

Table 1: Table captions are entered below the tables. Table text should use the standard font.

EquationsEquations may be included in the abstract, using either the “Equation” style or by using the Word equation editor. The text fonts in the equation should be Times New Roman and Symbol, 10 point. Equations should be centred. Equations may be sequentially numbered by inserting appropriate tab stops to the right of the equation.

a = mx + b (1)

ReferencesThe list of references should be included in this section using the “References” style. References should be ordered and formatted as shown below. In the text, refer to literature citations with a number starting by 1 and included in brackets e.g. [1].[1] Author et al, Biodental J, 37:1-10, 2006.[2] Author et al, Eng J, 20:100-107, 2005.