When I copy and paste abstracts into the Direct Submit form, some text is missing, quotes look odd, or strange characters appear in the abstract. Whats going on?
When copying abstracts from a word processing file or a PDF file, and pasting the text into the submission form, you are taking text from an environment that may support fonts and special characters (like symbols or “smart quotes”). Because the abstract is intended to be presented on the web, the format of the abstract needs to be reduced to plain text with no fonts or special characters. We recommend the following changes to keep your titles and abstracts legible on the web: • Change “smart” single and double quotes to straight quotes. • Change an ellipsis to three periods (…) • Change em- and en-dashes to hypens. If you would like to use bold and italic in your abstracts, you may do so using the corresponding HTML codes. If submitting an abstract in HTML format, please be sure to select the corresponding option on the submission form.
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