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Paper Submission Guidelines: Thesis Paper Presentations Awards
The organizing committee of ADDICON 2025 invites submissions for the Thesis Paper presentation awards.
Candidates who have already submitted their own thesis (for MD Psychiatry or DM Addiction Psychiatry courses) to any recognized institution / university in India are eligible to participate.
The thesis should have been submitted between 1 July 2022 and 30 June 2025.
The thesis should have been conducted only for the following courses: MD (Psychiatry); DM (Addiction Psychiatry); DNB (Psychiatry).
The thesis candidate / presenter needs to be a member / membership-applicant of the APSI.
The chief guide of the thesis needs to be a fellow / fellowship-applicant of the APSI.
The paper may be based upon the entire thesis or a part thereof.
To participate, the contestants shall submit:
The complete manuscript / paper (as per the guidelines below)
Details of thesis submitted, forwarded by the thesis guide with their signatures and official stamp.
Digital copy of the thesis
The time for presentation will be 15 minutes.
Only the shortlisted papers will be included for presentation. Rest may be considered for a free paper (oral) presentation.
The thesis candidate needs to be the first author of the paper and the presenter of the paper.
What will be evaluated?
The panel of judges will evaluate only the PAPER (which is based upon the thesis) and the PRESENTATION of the paper during the conference, but not the thesis itself. Copy of the thesis will be used only for the purpose of confirmation that the paper being presented is based upon the submitted thesis.
Decision of the jury shall be final and binding.
The winners will be announced during the valedictory session of the conference.
The paper may be based upon the entire thesis or only a part of the thesis.
Copyright of the papers submitted for this award shall continue to be with the authors. Thus the papers presented in the conference may have already been presented or published elsewhere and/or can be presented or published in any forum in the future.
The paper needs to follow the following format:
Covering letter: signed by the thesis candidate and forwarded by the guide with signature and stamp
Title page: showing Title of the paper, names of authors and their affiliations, number of words, number of tables, number of figures, number of references
Paper must be typed in Times New Roman, 12 points, double line spacing,
The manuscript needs to be submitted in MS Word.
Word limit: 3000 Words; Number of references: 30; Referencing style – Vancouver (numbers, in parentheses)
Number of Awards:
Best Thesis Paper: 1
Runner-up: 2
The award would entail a certificate, and a memento / plaque for the winners.
