Abstract submission

Abstract submission is now active. Submissions will be possible from the 17/11/2025 12:00 to the 05/12/2025 12:00 (i.e., noon) CET.

Remember that, to submit an abstract, you must also REGISTER to CSA. If an author submitting an abstract is not registered by the deadline (05/12/2025), the astract will not be considered further.



Remember: The Scientific Committee has set a limit to the number of editions in which an author could submit a paper to CSA. Please read these lines.



Use this form to submit an abstract to the CSA.
Title and Take-home message should not exceed 150 characters each (spaces included).
The whole abstract (Background + Methods + Results sections) should not exceed 200 words.
Avoid using special characters: use ASCII printable characters only.

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Name and Surname

Affiliation

Email Address

Title of the paper (150 chars)

Author(s, 150 chars)

Background

Methods

Results

Take-Home message (150 chars)


Type of submission


Info on data collection:


Paste here all links to: preregistration document,  open data, open analysis scripts, open digital materials, OSF project, etc. Please also provide a text-comment for each link explaining the content of the link (field limit: 65k chars).





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By submitting this Abstract, I declare that the submitted work has not been published yet at the moment of submission, AND that the work has not a digital object identifier yet (DOI, which is provided by the publisher when a paper becomes available in the literature).

By clicking on "Submit" I hereby accept to provide the CSA organization committee with the above data, which must be processed in compliance to all the strict regulation of the European GDPR/16 for the sole purposes of the congress and not transferred to anyone


 



Further information

Hints:
- count the number of spaces to know how many "words";
- do not use special characters (that is: use ASCII printable characters only);
- do not use paragraphs, nor indentation.
- if you do not receive any confirmation email within 30 minutes, repeat the submission procedure (and pay attention to correctly write your email address). If the second submission does not work, contact the Committee through the Contact form.



Abstract selection process

First, abstracts are screened (i.e., in/out) for basic scientific soundness. In case the number of submissions exceeds the availability (i.e., 25 talks and 25 posters), the scientific committee will operate a selection among the received contributions according to the following criteria:
(i) priority boarding for PhD students over post-docs and students
(ii) priority for pre-registered studies, registered reports studies and/or studies that have an accessible repository with data, analysis scripts, digital materials shared in a FAIR format
(iii) limit the overrepresentation of one (or more) research group/institution
(iv) increase diversity in the research topics
(v) "random lottery selection" (see below for further instructions).
In addition, the scientific committee may change the type of submission (e.g., from talk to a poster) in the case the research submitted is more suitable for the other format. This is often suggested for studies with no data yet that we think are more suitable for the poster format. The authors are also asked to declare that the submitted work has not been published yet, meaning that a digital object identifier (DOI) has not been obtained by the publisher at the time of submission. The authors of the selected abstracts will be email-notified within one week after submission deadline, and will be asked to confirm their participation by replying to our email (those who will not reply on time will be excluded from the final program).

Random lottery selection

In the case that a single university or research group submits an excessive number of contributions, the scientific committee will apply a random lottery to determine which contributions are accepted. How the lottery works. Each submission from the same university/research unit will be assigned a random integer using the R function sample() (see code below). The random seed will be determined by the first number extracted from the Italian national lottery for the city of Neaples the day after the abstract submission deadline that is Saturday, December 6, 2025, around 8:00 pm (CET). You can find the results here: https://www.lotto-italia.it/lotto/estratti-ruote . You can then run the following R code to replicate the process:
set.seed(first_number_extracted_by_the_italian_lotto_for_the_city_of_Neaples)
sample(1:20, 20, replace = FALSE)
 This will generate the randomized order for the submissions. Contributions will then be selected following this order until the available slots are filled.