Presenter Guidelines
The conference provides opportunities to give a 15-minute illustrated PowerPoint presentation about their latest research efforts. We recommend 12 minutes for your presentation, followed by 3 minutes for questions. There is no option for going beyond 15 minutes. Practicing the timing of your presentation is thus important.
Presentations are organized into 1.5 hour sessions. Each session begins with a 5 minute introduction and ends with 5 minutes for general questions.
If there is a chance that you may not be able to personally give your presentation, we encourage you to send in a recording of it.
Your presentation abstract needs to be submitted over email after you register for the conference.
Note the deadline for submitting your abstract.
Printable abstract submission guidelines.Registration Form
- Note if your presention is part of an already-planned session.
- Note any scheduling constraints.
After registering, please send your abstract as a Word file to ...
The subject line and Word document should read "LastnameFirstinitial-abstract-CNHC2026"
Abstract Formatting Guidelines
Printable version.
- Abstract submissions should be written in single-spaced, Times new Roman 12pt font.
- Titles must be limited to 100 characters to facilitate inclusion in the conference schedule. Avoid the use of all capital letters.
- You may include an alternate language version of your title, as long as an English version is also submitted. Include the alternate language title underneath the English version.
- Then enter your name as the presenter, as such: First name Last name, affiliation (email).
- On separate lines, list your co-authors, along with their affiliations and email in the same format as above.
- Abstracts must be limited to 200 words and should be written as a single paragraph, and be concisely written to summarize the most important elements of your presentation.
- Italicize the scientific names of species and capitalize the common names of species. The first time a species is mentioned in the text of your abstract, give both its scientific name (listed first) and then its common name (if it has one, in parentheses).
- You may include an alternate language version of your abstract, as long as an English version is also submitted. Include the alternate language abstract underneath the English version.
- Underneath your abstract, list the title of the session you are a part of, if applicable.
- For the sake of clarity, use first person and active tense, except in instances where it would make a sentence unnecessarily wordy, complex, or awkward.
- Each session will be facilitated by a moderator who is responsible for keeping speakers on time.
PowerPoint Slide Guidelines
- Embed graphs or other figures into the Powerpoint document as independent objects. Do not dynamically link them from other programs.
- Limit your file size to avoid sluggish response time when advancing and loading slides. Photos for slides can be compressed and saved in a lower resolution.
- Reasonably follow the 6x6 readability rule. Ideally, use no more than six words per line and six lines per “page.
- Use upper and lower case letters rather than block letters: ALL CAPS CAN BE DIFFICULT TO READ.
- Lines that are used for emphasis should be bolder than background lines or borders.
- Use contrasting text and background colors (white or yellow text on blue or black background).
- Avoid using the color red as it tends to bleed into the background and is generally difficult to read.
- Paragraphs should be clearly separated using a blank line. Lists should be organized using numbers, dashes or bullets.