Yeah....umm... papers and posters at conferences are different things. If you look at conference submissions they are often differentiated between - as
PsychPhDStudent said paper submissions are considered talks. A poster session is usually listed as such and you designate it as such when you submit it (and it will be listed as such in the conference program). (On the other hand, if you submitted a paper presentation to a conference you would have designated it for consideration as such - and often there are separate guidelines for that). Thus, I disagree with
clinicalpsyapp as you would be essentially saying you did something which you didn't (i.e., give a talk). Look at the APA manual - they differentiate between paper and poster sessions too.
Of course keeping in mind that structures of CV vary...check the actual APA manual as to how you would reference a poster session. (I only have the APA 5th on me. So the below are from pages 259-260 (i.e., References: Proceedings of Meetings and Symposia) in the 5th ed. APA manual. Check the 6th if you can to see if anything has changed.):
Should be something like....
POSTER SESSION [Example]: (The part in red is word for word from the APA Manual 5th ed.)
Ruby, J. & Fulton, C. (1993, June). Beyond redlining: Editing software that works. Poster session presented at the annual meeting of the Society for Scholarly Publishing, Washington, DC.
Just change the phrase presented at to:
A) submitted to
or
B) accepted for presentation
Note: City and State are from where it takes place that year (e.g., Boston, MA). Unless this has changed, you don't need to put the year again "the 2010 annual..." because that's at the beginning. I have seen people specify the meeting number though (e.g., at the 21st annual meeting...).
UNPUBLISHED PAPER PRESENTED AT A MEETING [Example]: (also from APA manual 5th ed.)
Lanktree, C., & Briere, J. (1991, January). Early data on the Trauma Symptom Checklist for Children (TSC-C). Paper presented at the meeting of the American Professional Society on the Abuse of Children, San Diego, CA.
Note: See the difference? *This* is a paper presentation. The other is a poster session.
Also, from reading a lot of CVs of Professors - those who have a lot of paper presentations usually have that in a separate section. Postdocs and grad students seem to just list them all together under a "Posters and Presentations" section.
For an actual paper that's being prepared for submission you would list that under "Manuscripts in Preparation" or whatnot. If you presented it at a conference *too*, you should list it in both sections using the appropriate reference structure (I say this based on what I've seen Professor do on their CVs).
Overall: It's fine to list as "submitted" or "accepted" I think - but I'm guessing people who have a lot of posters won't bother doing that (i.e., like my boss who has hundreds) whereas if you're trying to fill up room on your CV (if you only have a couple of posters) it would probably be more common and understandable.
