Abstract Submission

Abstract Submission


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Each registered congress attendee is allowed to submit up to two abstracts as first author. Naturally, they can participate as co-author in more than two (there is no limit) abstracts, though in that case another author must be registered to submit them.

All abstracts must be submitted via the electronic submission form and will undergo scientific review by the Scientific Committee, which will decide on their acceptance. Authors are responsible for the quality of the abstracts they submit, as these will be published exactly as sent, with no editing or proofreading after being reviewed by the Scientific Committee, which will decide on their acceptance. If the Committee provides comments or suggestions, they will be sent to the authors, who will be invited to submit the final version of their abstracts within one week. All accepted abstracts will be included in the Congress Book of Abstracts, which will be published under the coordination of the Scientific Committee and posted on the Congress website (https://www.wcm2025.com.br).

GUIDELINES FOR SUBMISSION OF SCIENTIFIC PAPERS

1. The papers must be written as abstracts in English.

2. The file must be submitted online through the link above. To submit a paper, the person must already be registered in the WCM 2025 online registration system.

3. Each author must be entered individually. The necessary data for each author are First name, Last name, email and CPF or passport for foreigners.

4. The abstracts must contain:

  • Introduction: present the rationale highlighting the importance/relevance and objectives of the work (minimum 40 and maximum 70 words);
  • Methodology: detail the methodology used, describing the steps in chronological order (minimum 60 and maximum 110 words);
  • Results and Discussion: present the data obtained, the analysis and discussion of the results. Highlight community participation, if any, and the change in the problem situation (minimum 110 and maximum 250 words);
  • Conclusion: Conclude whether the objectives were achieved, taking the discussion of the results as a reference (minimum 40 and maximum 70 words);
  • Funding Source/Symposia: when applicable, cite the funding and/or support received for the execution of the work.

    If you want to present your abstract within the program and a symposium, please indicate after including the funding sources, according to the list below:

    a) AMS President’s Symposium – Teaching an Old Mollusk New Tricks: Innovative Research Using Museum Collections
    b) Bridging Tradition and Technology: Advancing Mollusk Collection Stewardship and Research Society for the Preservation of Natural History Collections (SPNHC) Symposium
    c) Citizen Science and Mollusks: Bridging Communities and Research
    d) Deep-sea Molluscs: a Synthesis
    e) Diversity and Evolution of Marine Heterobranchia
    f) Diversity, equity, and inclusion in Malacology
    g) Emerging imaging technologies in malacological studies
    h) Epidemiologic and ecologic aspects of Malacology and snail control
    i) Evolution of molluscan weirdness
    j) From Architaenioglossa to Neogastropoda – systematics and evolution of caenogastropods
    k) Molluscan behaviour in an evolutionary ecology context
    l) Molluscan Macroecology and Biogeography
    m) Molluscan Microbiomes
    n) Molluscs as bioindicators
    o) Molluscs in cave environments
    p) Molluscs in One Planet: species distributions through space and time
    q) Multidisciplinary Approaches to Mollusca Systematics and Taxonomy
    r) News on freshwater limpets: systematics and distribution
    s) Palaeontology of marine Cenozoic molluscs
    t) Perspectives on conservation of freshwater mussels
    u) Taxonomic Catalog of the Brazilian Fauna (TCBF): updating non-native and invasive molluscs in Brazil
    v) Terrestrial gastropods of Latin America
    w) Young Taxonomists Symposium
    x)Invasive gastropods as agricultural pests
    y)Cephalopod Biology, Ecology and Life History Symposium

5. Abstracts should not contain subtitles, figures, graphs and/or tables.

6. The minimum length of the abstract will be 250 words and a maximum of 500 words, with each section having a specific minimum and maximum amount. No section in item 4 will be allowed to be left blank, except for the item – Funding Source.

7. It is up to the author who submits the paper to choose the sub-area theme in which it best fits, according to the following list:

THEMATIC AXES:

  • Anatomy and Physiology
  • Archaeomalacology
  • Behaviour
  • Collections
  • Conservation
  • Deep-sea
  • Ecology
  • Education and Outreach
  • Evolution
  • Fisheries, Aquaculture and Culture
  • Genetics / Genomics
  • Invasive Alien Species
  • Palaeontology
  • Parasitology
  • Reproduction
  • Taxonomy and Systematics
  • Other themes

8. Besides choosing the theme, the responsible author must select the paper’s presentation format: Oral or Poster. Suggestions for ORAL presentations will be analyzed and may be indicated for presentation in poster format at the discretion of the event’s scientific committee.

9. There is no standard model for abstracts. Submissions must be made in the system according to the instructions and fields presented in item 4.

10. Papers must be submitted through the online registration system, according to the information and rules presented in the previous items.

11. The deadline for submission of abstracts will be April 30, 2025.

12. The certificate of presentation of the paper will be granted online in the registration of the author responsible for the submission, containing all the authors’ names. The author responsible for the submission is responsible for sending the certificate of presentation to the co-authors.