• Abstracts (in English) will only be accepted online and submitted by May 23rd, 2013. No abstracts will be accepted after this deadline. The Organizing Committee reserves the right to reject abstracts written in inadequate English or containing orthographic errors.
• Submissions will be reviewed by the Scientific Committee, according to directions of the Organizing Committee. This Committee will verify the adequacy of the abstracts for presentation at the congress and publication in the annals. The authors’ preference in presentation for a poster, oral or both, as well as the Session Topic must also be included in the submission form.
• The criteria for selection will be both scientific quality and degree of general interest.
• The author submitting an abstract must be registered in the Congress. Please register before the abstract submission deadline, May 23rd, 2013.
• Registrants will be notified whether their abstract has been accepted for oral presentation and/or poster presentation or not selected for presentation.
• Only one certificate will be issued per abstract, stating the names of all authors and co-authors.

• Justify all text.
• Title: Full Title in Bold Letters
• Author(s): Full Name of Authors in Bold Letters
• The presenting author’s name should be underlined (same name as on the registration form). Names should be separated by a semicolon. Each name should be followed by the superscript number related to the affiliation.
• Institution: Superscript number followed by Institution name.
• Text: Subheadings (Introduction, Methods and Results, Conclusion) in bold
• Footnote: Indicate sources of financial support
• Abstracts not complying with the above specifications will not be accepted.
• Special attention should be given to written English, as abstracts containing spelling or grammatical mistakes will be rejected.
• Tables, charts or other graphics may not be included and will be removed before the review process if included.
• No literature references should be cited as part of the abstract.
• All abbreviations must be defined the first time they appear in the text (but not in the title).
• A template is included below.

• Software: Microsoft Word Maximum 2500 characters (including spaces) for all subheadings.
• Margins: right 2 cm and left 3 cm. Font: Arial 12, normal style, use "symbol" font for special characters.
• Single line spacing and no paragraph divisions.
• Insert a single line between: title and author; authors and institution; institution and text.

Abstracts must be submitted online by May 23rd, 2013, through the website www.jzbrasil.com/congressos/toxinologia/ and classified by one of the areas listed below:

• Antivenoms
• Amphibians toxins
• Caterpillar toxins and envenomation
• Clinical aspects of scorpion envenomation
• Clinical aspects of snake envenomation
• Clinical aspects of spider envenomation
• Drug design based on venom components
• Marine toxins
• Plant toxins
• Scorpion toxins
• Snake toxins
• Spider toxins
• Toxin genomics
• Toxin proteomics
• Toxins and evolution
• Toxins and haemostasis
• Toxins and inflammation
• Toxins and ion channels
• Toxins and pain
• Toxins from microbes
• Venomous animals biology

Complete Name of the Main Author¹; Complete Name of the Second Author²; Complete Name of the Last Author¹

¹Institution; ²Institution

Introduction: Specify the following order: Brief statement of the problem and state-of-the-art of the scientific subject, importance of the study and Objectives. Methods and Results: This item must contain a brief description of the methods used in the work and the corresponding results. It is important that the results are expressed as means ± variances (standard deviation, standard error, etc). Values for “n” should also be given. Conclusion: The abstract must end with a brief conclusion. Only abstracts in standard written English will be accepted.
Financial support: Use the last line of the abstract to acknowledge financial support.

All contributions to the XI Congress of the Pan-American Section of the International Society on Toxinology and XII Congress of the Brazilian Society of Toxinology will require the submission of an abstract, and a rigorous review procedure will be undertaken to maintain the highest scientific quality of the congress. All submitted abstracts will be reviewed according to the following criteria:

• the work makes a significant and original contribution to the field;
• the scientific content falls within the scientific scope of the meeting;
• the abstract complies with the submission instructions.

The contributors should indicate the presentation preference (oral and/or poster) and the category to which they would like to be considered under.

5 - Ground breaking research of outstanding quality and vision in the field;.
4 - An innovative perspective on current understanding; high quality research providing new insights; a major development in the field; the exploitation of new scientific and health-care developments, unreported in the Toxinology field; advancing our understanding of Toxinology field;
3 - An interesting and important addition, helping the continued development of the field;
2 - A modest addition to the field, contributing to the development of a specific area;
1 - Work demonstrating little scientific innovation over and above current published work; lacking scientific data, argument or foundation.

• The abstract is written in clear and acceptable English with few syntax and spelling mistakes;
• The abstract follows the guidelines in terms of content and format;
• Sufficient data is clearly presented and/or analyzed, is adequately discussed and appropriate conclusions drawn.