ICIS Abstract Submissions
The International Congress of Infant Studies is accepting abstract submissions for the XXIV Biennial Congress to be held July 8-11, 2024 in Glasgow, Scotland at the Scottish Event Campus.
The congress will be comprised of pre-conference workshops, plenary speakers, invited speakers and symposia, contributed symposia and poster sessions. We encourage the ICIS community to submit their research for the upcoming congress.
ICIS Submission Key Dates
Abstract Submission Open:
September 1st, 2023
Abstract Submission Close:
December 1st, 2023
Abstract Submission Rules
All submitters may submit up to four (4) presenting roles. A presenting role is defined as:
- Chair of a Paper Symposium
- Presenter of a Paper in a Symposium
- Presenter of an Individual Poster
- Presenter of an Individual Oral
Additional Considerations:
- Only presenting roles will be protected from schedule conflicts
- Multiple presenting roles for an individual in the same submission (eg. Chair and Presenter of a paper in the same symposium) count as separate presenting roles
- You may edit your submission at any time prior to the submission deadline
- After the submission deadline of December 1, 2023, no changes can be made including the elevation of an author to a presenting role
- Submissions must be relevant to participants 36 months old or younger to align with the study of infancy
- Individual Oral submissions will automatically be considered as a Poster should they not be accepted as an oral presentation. The submitting author will be notified of this change in the acceptance email.
Submission Format
Submissions are encouraged from all ICIS members (Regular and Student). If you are not yet a member, click here to join ICIS. Note: Membership is required to submit and it may take up to 2 hours for the abstract submission software to recognize your new membership sign-up or renewal. Please plan your submission timeline accordingly!
Pre-Congress Workshops
For pre-congress workshop submission information, please click here.
Individual Poster and Oral Abtracts
Poster and oral submissions are the appropriate format when material can be explained briefly, is suited for graphic or visual presentation, and/or the presenter would benefit from high levels of interaction and discussion.
Please review the poster/oral submission instructions carefully, before clicking the submission button.
Poster and Oral submission instructions
Dedicated oral and poster sessions will be scheduled during the congress for individual, free-standing research presentations. Posters are an appropriate format when material can be explained briefly, is suited for graphic or visual presentation, and/or the presenter would benefit from high levels of interaction and discussion. We encourage lively debate and discussion during these interactive poster sessions.
For posters, data should have been collected and analyzed. Pre-registered analysis plans will be accepted, as long as the data are collected and analyzed by the time of the conference. Pre-registration abstracts should include a link to the analysis plan on a pre-registration server.
Submission Process
- Prepare an abstract title (max 130 character limit)
- Include all authors (primary and secondary) exactly as you wish them to appear on published material and in the correct order – please remember to include yourself on the author list if you are an author submitting a poster
- Confirm the name of the presenting author onsite at the congress
- Include an abstract (max 3500 characters – 500 words)
- Submit the abstract via ICIS’s online abstract management system. Please note, when submitting the abstract cut and paste it from a text editor (i.e. notepad, wordpad) to ensure it does not include underlying formatting that may cause errors. Do not copy/paste from a Word document as additional hidden formatting could be inserted into the submission.
- Use standard reference citations (last name, year), but do not include a reference list. If you believe a full reference is necessary, include it in the text as (authors, title, journal, year) and it will be counted towards your total character count.
- Ensure the submission has been approved by all authors
- Graphics are encouraged but not required. They do not count toward the maximum word count for the submission. The two graphics allowed may be:
- 2 tables, or
- 2 figures, or
- 1 table plus 1 figure
Please note that all graphics must be incorporated into one single file. The file must be in Adobe PDF Format and you will upload the document at the end of the submission process. If you submit anything other than a PDF document, it will not be viewable.
*By submitting an abstract, you agree to present at the ICIS Meeting should your abstract be selected for the program.
*Individual Oral submissions will automatically be considered as a Poster should they not be accepted as an oral presentation. The submitting author will be notified of this change in the acceptance email.
Paper Symposium
A paper symposium is defined as a cohesive cluster of research presentations and theoretical perspectives. To attain cohesion, the symposium should focus on a specific topic and emphasize conceptual issues and the integration of findings.
Paper Symposia are scheduled for 90 minutes. Each symposium is organized by a chair, with a minimum of three (3) and a maximum of four (4) individual papers presented per symposium. You may include a discussant, but please note the discussant does not submit an abstract.
Please review the symposia submission instructions carefully, before clicking the submission button.
Symposium submission instructions
Integrative statements and individual abstracts:
Symposium organisers must prepare a 250-word integrative statement that summarizes the research question, methods and findings, and explains its significance. We encourage authors to explain how the papers included represent contrasting and/or convergent perspectives on this question by including diverse authors, participant populations and/or research methods. . If accepted, this symposium summary will be used to describe your symposium on the website.
Symposium presenting authors must prepare a 500-word abstract that describes their individual paper (introduction, hypotheses, study population, methods, results).
Submission process
The symposium organiser will submit the full symposium which includes the following;
- The title of the group submission
- The names and affiliations of all presenters participating in the proposed symposium
- The name of the proposed discussant (if applicable)
- The name of the proposed chair
- An integrative statement of the proposed symposium (500 words) *No names or other identifying information is to be included*
- Each individual abstract (minimum of 3, maximum of 4 abstracts required) *No names or other identifying information is to be included*
- Graphics are encouraged but not required, and do not count toward the maximum word count. The two graphics allowed may be: 2 tables, or 2 figures, or 1 table plus 1 figure
Please note:
Discussants are not required to submit an abstract.
Symposia abstracts will be considered for a poster presentation, if not selected for a symposium.
Review Criteria
The theme of ICIS 2024 is Convergence. This refers to the integration of diverse samples, methods, and perspectives. Presenters will be encouraged to bring together contrasting or divergent perspectives to address a well-defined research question. These different perspectives could come from diverse author groups and/or present data from diverse participant groups, and/or present contrasting and complementary research methods.
Submitted abstracts should be original work and substantively different from papers that have been previously published. Abstracts should either contain actual empirical data. For Posters only we will also accept a submission as a pre-registration, as long as the data will be collected and analyzed by the time of the conference. Each submission is evaluated by at least two members of either the first or second choice review panels identified, and conflicts are resolved by the panel chair(s).
Submissions are reviewed according to the following criteria:
- Clarity of formulation/conceptualization
- Submissions that address issues of convergence across diverse populations, methods, and approaches will be a priority. In particular, symposia should represent a diversity of perspectives and viewpoints. We encourage authors to address how diversity and convergence are reflected in their integrative statements.
- Creative and innovative approaches
- Adequacy of methods, design and analytics
- Appropriateness of interpretation(s)
- Current relevance of topic for developmental science