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Abstract Submission Guidelines and Policies

Policies

  • First authors must register for the meeting.
  • First authors must present the work. Presenter substitutions will be handled on a case-by-case basis.
  • Individuals may be first author on only one abstract.
  • Abstracts presented at the meeting will be published in the Journal of Vision.
  • All abstracts are submitted through your AVS Account.
  • Abstracts must represent work that has not been accepted for publication elsewhere at the time of submission.

Abstract Format

Abstracts are limited to 300 words, not including title, authors, and affiliations. Additional space is provided for funding acknowledgments and for declaration of commercial interests and conflicts.

Your abstract should include introduction, methods and results, and a conclusion. It is not required that the sections be explicitly labeled. Abstracts must contain sufficiently detailed descriptions of methods and results. Do not submit an abstract of work that you are planning to do.

Please complete your submission carefully. All abstracts must be in final form. Abstracts are not proofread or corrected in any way prior to publication. Typos and other errors cannot be corrected after the deadline. You may edit your abstract as much as you like until the submission deadline.

Disclosure of Conflicts of Interest

It is the responsibility of the first author to list on the abstract any relevant commercial relationships or other conflicts of interest of all authors.

At a talk, the speaker must orally state and display on a slide at the beginning of the presentation all relevant commercial relationships or other conflicts of interest.

At a poster presentation, the presenter must display all relevant commercial relationships or other conflicts of interest.

Abstract Review Process

The Abstract Review Committee evaluates each submitted abstract with a minimum of 2 reviewers. 

Rejection Criteria

Criteria for the rejection of abstracts are: insufficient results to reach a clear conclusion, significant flaws or absence of methods, incomprehensibility, repetition of well-known literature, lack of novelty, work that has been accepted for publication or published elsewhere at the time of submission, or outside the scope of the meeting.

Dates & Deadlines

January 16, 2026Abstract Submission Deadline
February 9, 2026Notification of Accepted Abstracts

To Submit Your Abstract

Abstract Submissions are Open.
Log in to your AVS Account and click ‘Submit an Abstract’.