Instructions for Authors
Instructions

Important Deadlines

Abstract Submission Deadline: 1 December 2025 20 December 2025
Full-File Submission Deadline: 31 January 2026 15 February 2026

General Instructions for Submission

Submissions should be made by the authors online, by registering with sciforum.net and using the "New Submission" function, once logged into the system.

The corresponding author must use an institutional email address. Please submit the abstract with the institutional email address.

1) Guidelines for Abstract Submission

Scholars interested in participating in this conference can submit their abstracts (about 200–250 words; the word count excludes references) online on this website until the abstract submission deadline of 20 December 2025. Abstracts will be evaluated based on their scientific quality and suitability for the conference sections. The abstracts submitted to this conference must be original and novel, without prior publication in any journals or will not be accepted. Notification of abstract acceptance will be communicated to respective authors by 31 January 2026.

2) Poster Submission
All participants are requested to upload and display their research in the form of a poster at the “Poster Gallery” page on the conference website. There will be no "Live" poster presentation.

To maintain consistency and for consideration of the “Best Poster Award”, please adhere to the poster format below:

a. Your submission should include the title, authors, contact details, and main research findings, as well as tables, figures, and graphs where necessary.
b. File format: PDF (.pdf).
c. Size in cm: 60 width x 80 height–portrait orientation.
d. Font size: ≥20.
e. Maximum size: 250 M

3) Guidelines for Submission of Full-File: Manuscript and Supplementary Materials

Once the abstract has been accepted, the authors can submit their manuscript (short proceedings paper, 3–6 pages) before the full-file submission deadline of 15 February 2026.

Use the Microsoft Word template or LaTeX template to prepare your manuscript.

To supplement their manuscripts, authors of accepted papers will have the option to submit a slide presentation (in PDF) and/or a short video presentation (max. 3–5 minutes) as supporting material for the paper.

a) Presentation Slides
Authors can 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.

b) Video Presentations
Authors can submit video presentations to supplement the content of their paper. Videos should be no longer than 5 minutes and prepared with one of the following formats: .mp4 / .webm / .ogg (max size: 250Mb). They should be submitted, together with the full manuscript, by the full-file submission deadline.

Potential Conflicts of Interest

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.

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).

Publication Opportunities

Publication Opportunity Available for Authors with Accepted Submissions:
Publish with a 20% discount in Special Issue of Plants journal (Selected Papers from the 1st International Electronic Conference on Plant Protection

Guidelines

Participants of this conference are invited to contribute a full manuscript to a dedicated Special Issue in the journal Plants (ISSN 2223-7747, IF 4.1). Papers presented at the conference will be granted a 20% discount in the Special Issue

Note that if you have IOAP/association discounts, conference discounts will be combined with IOAP/association discounts. Conference discounts cannot be combined with reviewer vouchers.

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.

For more information regarding publishing in the journal, please contact: plants@mdpi.com




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