Guidelines for parallel presentations
Please prepare your presentation with the audience in mind. Most UKNSCC delegates are clinicians and will appreciate a clinical focus to your presentation.

Please note that if you would like to present data on abstinence from smoking we normally require CO-verified data to be presented. If you are not presenting CO-verified abstinence data then please supply a rationale for this.

1. You must make your presentation within the time that you have been allocated. Session Chairs will be very strict about ending presentations that go overtime. If you are not used to public speaking or giving presentations then you might like to practice, and time, your presentation before hand.

2. Power Point presentations are preferred and if you need to use an overhead projector then please let Conference Organiser Monique Tomlinson know (monique@exchangeconferences.org). The advice below is useful for either type of presentation:

• 1 slide per minute (so 15 slides maximum for most parallel paper sessions) is usually about right

• Don’t overload slides with too much text

• Remember the 6x6x6 Rule (6 Words per bullet, 6 Bullets per slide, 6 Lines per slide)

• Title every slide

• Use the same color scheme all the way through

• The 7 second rule (The audience needs to grasp the message within 7 seconds of the slide appearing)

• Use quality clipart (if it’s not good quality it’s better to use none at all)

• Visual break (supplement slide after slide of straight text with some graphics just for a change of view)

• Keep it simple

• Make sure type in graphics is legible

• Fonts (do not use fonts smaller than 24 points, No more than three fonts to a presentation, avoid overuse of bold, italic and especially all capitals)

If you have any questions about these guidelines or need some advice on preparing and presenting your work then please contact Andy McEwen on 020 3108 3069 or andy.mcewen@ucl.ac.uk