Submit Your Abstract

Any individuals passionate for advancing geography are invited to submit abstracts for the AAG Annual Meeting. The AAG accepts all submitted abstracts and organized sessions for presentation.

How do I submit an abstract? 

After registering, navigate to the submission homepage and select the “Submit an Abstract” button. Select the appropriate abstract type for your presentation (poster or paper). After you have entered your details, such as topics and themed tracks that align with your submission, select "Save and Finalize.". You will be able to edit your abstract until February 6, 2025.  

After saving and finalizing your abstract, you will receive a confirmation email containing your unique abstract code. This code is essential for adding your abstract to a session and must be provided to your session organizer.  

For your best chances at being placed in an appropriate session for your presentation topic, AAG recommends submitting your abstract early. 

PowerPoint, PDF, audio, or video files may be uploaded for pre-recorded presentations; however, uploaded content will not automatically play at the scheduled session time.  AAG expects presenters to deliver live presentations during their sessions. 

What happens next? 

After submitting your abstract, you can place it into a session using one of the following methods below: 

For Paper abstracts, you may organize a session around the topic of your own presentation or contact an organizer to express interest in joining their session using their contact information listed in the Session Gallery. If you don’t have a specific session to join, you can wait for your abstract to be added to a session by the Program Committee. Other options include volunteering to chair a program committee session or convert to poster presentation. Please be aware papers in program committee sessions may cover a variety of topics.  

Poster abstracts are organized topically; however, you can contact a session organizer or the program committee about joining a specialty group’s session/competition or wait for your abstract to be added to a session by the Program Committee, similar to paper abstracts. 

How to Format Your Abstract 

Abstracts are limited to 250 words and should describe the presentation's purpose, methods, and conclusions.

• Do not use bulleted lists, underlining, boldface type, italics, subscripts, or superscripts. 

• Do not include any codes for justification, hyphenation, line height, line centering, margins, spacing, fonts, page centering, page numbering, suppression, or tabs. 

• Do not include your name, affiliation, phone number, or e-mail address in the body of the abstract. 

• AAG will not edit your abstract; you are responsible for any spelling, grammatical, and typographical errors. 

• AAG recommends using active voice, avoiding complex jargon, and spelling out abbreviations in abstract text. 

Selecting Keywords

• Keywords may be compound (such as "political geography").
• Keywords should generally be nouns instead of adjectives or adverbs.
• Keywords must be separated by commas.

If you have any questions about the submission process after reviewing the above information, please contact us at meeting@aag.org.