Submission should be completed online by the authors by registering with https://sciforum.net/ and using the “Start New Submission” function once logged into the system.

1. Scholars interested in participating in the conference can submit their abstract (about 200–250 words) online at this website until 8 September 2021 8 October 2021.
2. Based on the submitted abstract, the Conference Committee will conduct a pre-evaluation of whether a contribution from the authors of the abstract will be welcome for the 1st International Electronic Conference on Information. All authors will be notified by 22 September 2021 15 October 2021 about the acceptance of their abstract.
3. If the abstract is accepted for this conference, the author will be invited to prepare a full description of their work in the form of a Poster/PowerPoint/Video Presentation (max. 5 minutes), until the submission deadline of 20 October 2021 2 November 2021.
4. The conference presentations will be available for discussion on https://ieci2021.sciforum.net/ for the duration of the conference (1–15 December 2021).
5. The open access journal Information will publish a conference Special Issue. After the conference, the authors are encouraged to submit a full manuscript to the dedicated Special Issue and will receive a 20% discount on the Article Processing Charges.

Presentation Slides

Authors are encouraged to prepare a presentation in PowerPoint or similar software, to be displayed online along with the abstract. Slides, if available, will be displayed directly on the website using Sciforum.net's proprietary slides viewer. Slides can be prepared in exactly the same way as for any traditional conference where research results can be presented. Slides should be converted into PDF format before submission so that our process can easily and automatically convert them for displaying online.

We recommend the following template for your presentation:

• Length of the presentation: No more than 30 slides;
• Slide 1 (strictly one slide): Title, authors’ names, affiliation(s), email address of the corresponding author, and logos of the laboratory and/or institution (not mandatory);
• Slide 2 (strictly one slide): Graphical abstract, repeat the title of the presentation but avoid other text as much as possible;
• Slide 3 (strictly one slide): Abstract (max. 250 words) and 3–5 keywords separated by semicolons;
• Slide 4 and following slides: Should contain introduction, results, discussion, and conclusions in this sequence;
• Last slide: Acknowledgments, and logos of sponsors (not mandatory).

IECI2021-PPT-template

Posters

Posters will be available online on the conference website during and after the event. Participants will be able to ask questions and make comments about the posters.

Video Presentations

Authors are also encouraged to submit video presentations. The video should be no longer than 5 minutes and prepared in one of the following formats: .mp4 / .webm / .ogg (max size: 250Mb). It should be submitted before 20 October 2021 2 November 2021.

Tips for authors: If you would like to prepare a video based on your PowerPoint presentation, you may use the "record slide" function in the PowerPoint.

Potential Conflicts of Interest

All authors must disclose all relationships or conflicts of interest 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.

Copyright

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).