Submissions should be completed online by authors by registering with Sciforum.net and using the “Submit Abstract” function once logged into the system.
- Scholars interested in participating in the conference can submit their abstract in English (about 200–250 words) online at this website until 31 May 2022 30 June 2022.
- The Conference Committee will evaluate all the submitted abstracts and authors will be notified by 15 June 2022 15 July 2022 in regard to whether theirs has been accepted.
- The authors of accepted abstracts will be invited to submit at least one type of the following files: proceedings paper (max. 6 pages), presentation slides, poster presentation and/or video presentation (max. 250 MB) before 31 August 2022 30 September 2022.
- All accepted files will be available online for discussion and rating during the conference (15–31 October 2022). After the conference they will remain available to read online on Sciforum.net.
- All accepted proceedings papers will be published in the proceedings of this e-conference within a dedicated volume of the MDPI journal Environmental Sciences Proceedings. The publication of proceedings papers is free of charge.
Note: Before publication, Environmental Sciences Proceedings will review accepted papers using the powerful text comparison tool iThenticate. This procedure aims to prevent scholarly and professional plagiarism. Submissions with a high repetition rate and lack of novelty will not be published in the conference proceedings.
- Participants of this e-conference will also be encouraged to submit a full paper to one dedicated Special Issue in Forests with a 20% discount on the article processing charge (APC).
Note: The submission to the journal is independent of the conference proceedings and will follow the usual process of the journal, including peer review, APC, etc. The submission to the journal should be novel and significantly different from the proceedings paper.
Proceedings papers must be prepared in MS Word using the proceedings template and converted into a PDF before submission. The manuscript should be at least 3 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.
The papers 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.
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’s 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 alongside the manuscript. Slides can be prepared in the same way as for any traditional conference. They should be converted into a PDF format before submission.
The following organization is recommended for your presentation:
- Length of the presentation: no more than 30 slides;
- Slide one (strictly one slide): title, authors’ names, affiliation(s), email addresses of the corresponding authors and logos of the laboratory and/or institution (not mandatory);
- Slide two (strictly one slide): graphical abstract, repeat the title of the presentation but avoid other text as much as possible;
- Slide three (strictly one slide): abstract (max. 250 words) and three–five keywords separated by semicolons;
- Slide four and following slides: introduction, results, discussion and conclusions, in this sequence;
- Last slide: acknowledgments and logos of sponsors (not mandatory).
Authors are also encouraged to submit video presentations. This is a 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 in one of the following formats: .mp4/.webm/.ogg (max size: 250 MB). It should be submitted before 31 August 2022 30 September 2022.
Tips for authors: If you would like to prepare a video based on your PowerPoint presentation you may use the "record slide" function in PowerPoint.
Posters will be available on the conference’s website during and after the event. As with papers presented at the conference, participants will be able to ask questions and make comments about the posters.
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.
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 publisher 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).