- Create an account on Sciforum if you do not have one, then click on ‘New Submission’ in the upper-right corner of the window, or by clicking on ‘Submit Abstract’ at the top of this webpage.
- Submit a short abstract in English (150-300 words) before 31 July 2021.
- The Conference Committee will evaluate all the submitted abstracts, and authors will be notified by 22 August 2021 about acceptance.
- The authors of accepted abstracts will be invited to submit at least one type of these submissions: proceedings paper, presentation slides, poster presentation and/or video presentation before 15 September 2021.
- All accepted files will be available online for discussion and rating during the time of the conference (15-30 October 2021). After the conference, they will remain available online for reading on Sciforum.net.
- The Conference Committee will select some submissions to give a talk live in one of the live-streaming webinars that will be held during the conference.
- All accepted proceedings papers will be published in the proceedings of this e-conference within a dedicated issue of the MDPI journal Biology and Life Sciences Forum (Proceedings).
- Participants of this e-conference will also be encouraged to submit a full paper to the conference Special Issue in Foods with a 20% discount on the article processing charge (APC).
Proceedings papers must be prepared in MS Word using the Proceedings template and converted to PDF before submission. They should follow this organization:
- Title
- Full author names
- Affiliations (including full postal address) and authors' e-mail addresses.
- Abstract
- Keywords
- Introduction
- Methods
- Results and Discussion
- Conclusions
- Conflict of Interest
- (Acknowledgements)
- References
The manuscript should be at least three pages (including figures, tables, and references) and not exceed 6 pages. Authors are asked to keep their papers as concise as possible. Please do not insert any graphics (schemes, figures, etc.) into a movable frame which can superimpose on the text and make the layout very difficult.
Please note that the manuscript cannot be published in any place other than the conference proceedings. Carefully read the rules outlined in the 'Instructions for Authors' on the journal website and ensure that your manuscript submission adheres to these guidelines.
Authors are encouraged to prepare a presentation in PowerPoint or similar software, to be displayed online along with the manuscript. Slides can be prepared the same way as for any traditional conference. They should be converted to PDF format before submission.
Authors are also encouraged to submit video presentations. This is an unique way of presenting your research and discussing it with peers from all over the world. Video should be no longer than 3-5 minutes and prepared with one of the following formats: .mp4 / .webm / .ogg (max size: 200Mb). It should be submitted before 15 September 2021.
Posters will be available on this conference website during and after the event. Like papers presented on the conference, participants will be able to ask questions and make comments about the posters. Posters without an accompanying Proceedings paper should be presented in the Poster Session (Session 10).
After abstract acceptance, if you wish to submit your presentation slides, poster or video without a Proceedings paper, please upload a copy of the short abstract as PDF and Word files, in the corresponding required fields, and upload your file in the corresponding optional field. Submissions without a Proceedings paper will not be added to the proceedings of the conference.
Special Issue Submission
Full paper versions of accepted submissions are encouraged to be submitted to the conference Special Issue after the conference. These full papers should be novel and significantly different from the Proceedings papers. These papers will be subject to peer review after they are submitted using the journal submission system.
More details about the conference special issue: https://www.mdpi.com/journal/foods/special_issues/Foods_2021
All authors must disclose all relationships or interests that could inappropriately influence or bias their work. This should be conveyed in a separate ‘Conflict of Interest’ statement preceding the ‘Acknowledgments’ and ‘References’ sections at the end of the manuscript. If there is no conflict, please state ‘The authors declare no conflict of interest.’ Financial support for the study must be fully disclosed under the ‘Acknowledgments’ section.
MDPI, the owner of the Sciforum.net platform, is an open access publisher. We believe that authors should retain the copyright to their scholarly works. Hence, by submitting a communication paper to this conference, you retain the copyright of your paper, but you grant MDPI the non-exclusive right to publish this paper online on the Sciforum.net platform. This means you can easily submit your paper to any scientific journal at a later stage and transfer the copyright to its publisher (if required by that publisher).