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Poster Guidelines

POSTER PROCEDURE

Posters will be displayed at the Exhibition and Catering Area on Level 3 at all times from Wednesday 31st August to Friday 2nd September 2011. We encourage you to keep your poster on display for the duration of the Conference.

Your poster will need to be up before morning tea on Wednesday 31st August.

Your poster board number (i.e. location) will be provided to you at registration along with some velcro. Following registration you will be able to attach your poster to the assigned board. Please ensure your poster is displayed on the correct poster board. Do not place your poster in a different location.

You will also be given a card for display beside your poster to let people know if, during breaks, you will be available at your poster for any questions or discussion.

Posters left behind at the conclusion of the Conference will be discarded. Please ensure you collect you poster on Friday 2nd September after afternoon tea and before 16.30 hours.

PRESENTATION OF POSTERS

Posters should meet the following criteria:

TITLE
The title should reflect the content of your poster and match your abstract submission.

DIMENSIONS/FONT
Poster dimensions are to be portrait orientation and no more than 900mm in width and 1200mm in height. The recommended font for posters is Arial.

LETTERING
The poster should be easily readable at a distance of two metres. Please use UPPER and lower case for general content as the use of all-capital text is difficult to read. Avoid using mixtures of type/font styles.

CONTACT INFORMATION
Name, organisation, telephone number, email address of the corresponding author and the affiliations of all co-authors should appear on the poster.

RECOMMENDATIONS

TYPE OF TEXT	SIZE OF CHARACTERS	CASE / STYLE	GENERAL ADVICE
TITLE	20-24 mm or 100 point maximum	Title Case / Bold	At the top of the poster include the title of the presentation, the name of the authors and the contact details for the corresponding author.
HEADINGS	48 point is suggested 60 point maximum	Title Case	Headings such as “Introduction”, “Methods”, “Results”, “Discussion” and “Conclusions” are useful.
CONTENT	24-28 point 32 maximum Single spaced	Upper and Lower Case	The text should be brief throughout. Any description of methods should be simple and concise.

GENERAL ADVICE FOR THOSE WHO HAVE NOT PREVIOUSLY PRESENTED A POSTER

• The message that your poster contains should be clear and understandable without a requirement for oral explanation. Methods should be presented simply and concisely.
• Please ensure your poster is professionally printed.
• Handouts can be very useful, however please note that these cannot be placed on the floor for safety reasons. If handouts or poster packaging is found on the floor the Conference Managers will remove it. Handouts can be secured in a pouch attached to your poster if you wish to supply these; alternatively you can hand items to interested delegates.
• After the title, the two most important panels in the poster are the Introduction and the Conclusion. They will influence whether the reader decides to read the details and perhaps talk to the presenter. These panels need to be simple, concise and visually attractive.
• Results should be presented graphically if possible. Avoid large tables of data.
• Use pictures, symbols and colour. Figure legends are essential and should be short but informative.  Each graph should have a short heading. For visual effect, we recommend that graphs be no smaller than 12cm x 18cm.
• A matt finish on photographs gives better visibility. Photographs should be no smaller than 12cm x 18cm.
• Use the space to attract your audience for discussion, not to present complex details of methods and results.