Submission of Scientific Papers
GUIDELINES FOR SUBMITTING SCIENTIFIC PAPERS
Consult the general guidelines for presentations and abstracts, awards, responsibilities and copyright, and recommendations for presenters of Oral Communications in the table below, and submit your Scientific work using the form below.
General guidelines for presentations
A - Participation Criteria
- Prior publication and/or presentation of work at other national and international events constitutes an exclusion criterion;
- The author/presenter must be registered for the congress, with registration paid, by September 30, 2026 (11:59 PM GMT+1);
- All abstracts will be evaluated by the Scientific Committee, which will have the discretion to approve or reject them for presentation during the congress, and the decision taken is final and cannot be appealed.
- The SPO Scientific Committee may suggest changes to the type of presentation proposed by the author, if it deems it appropriate;
- Pre-acceptance of submissions will be communicated to the first author via email.
- The presenting author is the person with whom contact is established for communication and dissemination of information to the co-authors.
B - Submission procedures
- Abstracts and papers must be submitted exclusively online through the submission platform; this is the only method of submission, and papers submitted through other means will not be considered.
- Bibliographic references cited in the papers should be formatted according to Vancouver style;
- The formatting of papers in the various categories must follow the specific guidelines for preparing scientific papers outlined in these regulations.
Submission deadline: Abstracts must be submitted by September 30, 2026.
Internet problems cannot be used as an excuse for not submitting the work by the deadline.
All fields in the submission must be completed.
Guidelines for submitting abstracts
Languages: The title and abstract may be submitted in Portuguese and English.
Title of the work: it must clearly specify the topic to be addressed, and must not exceed 150 characters (including spaces).
Keywords: 4 to 6, should be submitted in a separate section for this purpose and not in the abstract.
The abstract must be a maximum of 500 words (including spaces) and the use of abbreviations is not permitted;
The abstract section for research papers (clinical and pre-clinical) and systematic reviews must include:
- Title
- Introduction
- Objectives
- Materials and methods
- Results
- Conclusions
- Funding Sources (if any)
- Reference to conflicts of interest (if applicable)
The abstract section of clinical case reports must include:
- Title
- Introduction
- Descrição do(s) caso(s) clínico(s)
- Conclusions
- Funding Sources (if any)
- Reference to conflicts of interest (if applicable)
For any questions, authors may contact the Organizing Committee via the following email: congresso2026@sportodontia.pt
SUBMIT ABSTRACT
Abstracts must be submitted exclusively online by filling out the form below; this is the only method of submission, and abstracts submitted through other means will not be considered.
The deadline for submitting abstracts is September 30, 2026.
