Writing your structured abstract for Stereoscopic Displays and Applications

Stereoscopic Displays and Applications undertakes its first review of papers based on the authors’ text-only structured abstracts of 500 words. To be successful, your abstract needs to describe a technically interesting piece of work that is within the scope of the call for papers. In addition the abstract must be written clearly and describe the work in sufficient detail that the program committee can make a judgement about your work. Writing a good abstract maximises the chance that the program committee will recognise the value of your work, and hence increases the chance of your paper being accepted.

Structure of your Abstract
We advise you to write your abstract with the following five clearly headed sections.

Context
In one or two sentences summarise the background context to your work; clearly state why it is an important question to study.

Objective
Describe the purpose of your project, clearly state the problem you set out to investigate in the work you have done.

Method
Summarize the technical approach or apparatus you have used or developed in the project. If you are writing a review paper identify the method you used to find primary and secondary sources and how you chose to include or exclude sources from the review.

Results
Describe the results that you have obtained, be as specific as possible and if appropriate quantify the results.

Conclusions
Identify what your results demonstrate and be clear about the contribution of your work in comparison to previous papers.

Diagrams and Further Information
You can upload a formatted document as an additional file during the abstract submission process. Do this only if there is information that it is not possible to put in the abstract. Examples are graphs and diagrams. Please do not upload an additional document that consists solely of another copy of your abstract: it is frustrating for the committee to download the additional file to find that it contains only the information that they have already read!

References
If you need to include specific references add them at the end of your abstract and include enough information to uniquely identify the work being referenced, (preferably including a link to the reference online, where one exists). Extensive lists of references, if required, can be included in the additional file, rather than in the abstract text.

Number of words
We advise you to use 400-500 words in your abstract. In past years we have had to reject several very short abstracts because they contain too little information for us to make a judgement.

A clear structured abstract helps the program committee review your work. In addition, the evidence from past years is that, if you use the same structure in the abstract of your final paper, it helps others search for and quickly find the contribution of your hard work.

Good luck!

SD&A Programme Chairs