Submission

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

1. Scholars interested in participating in the conference can submit their abstract (about 200–300 words) online on this website until 6 November 2020.
2. The Conference Committee will conduct a pre-evaluation based on the submitted abstract. All authors will be notified by 20 November 2020 about the acceptance of their abstract.
3. If the abstract is accepted for this conference, the author is optional to submit a proceeding paper or a poster, optionally along with a PowerPoint and/or video, until 20 December 2020.
4. The conference proceedings papers, posters and presentations will be available on https://sciforum.net/conference/IECT2020 for discussion during the time of the conference 16 -31 January 2021 and will be published in Journal Proceedings.
5. The open access journal Toxins will also publish a Special Issue for the conference. After the conference, the authors can choose to submit an extended edition of their conference proceeding papers to this Special Issue. (The submission to the journal Special Issue is independent from the conference proceedings papers and will follow the usual process of the journal, including peer-review, APC, etc.).

Submission of Manuscripts

Submission: Manuscripts should be submitted online at www.sciforum.net/login by registering and logging in.

Accepted File Formats

• MS Word: Manuscripts prepared in Microsoft Word must be converted into a single file before submission. When preparing manuscripts in MS Word, the Electronic Conference on Surfaces, Coatings, and Interfaces Microsoft Word template file (see download below) must be used. Please do not insert any graphics (schemes, figures, etc.) into a movable frame that can superimpose upon the text and make the layout very difficult.
• LaTeX: Manuscripts prepared in LaTeX must be collated into one .ZIP folder (include all source files and images, so that the Conference Secretary can recompile the submitted PDF). When preparing manuscripts in LaTeX, please use the 1st Electronic Conference on Toxins and Applications LaTeX template files.

1st International Electronic Conference on Toxins Microsoft Word template file and LaTex template file

Microsoft Word template
LaTeX template

Manuscripts for the proceedings issue must have the following organization:

First page:

• Title
• Full author names
• Affiliations (including full postal address) and authors' e-mail addresses
• Abstract
• Keywords
• Introduction
• Methods
• Results and Discussion
• Conclusions
• (Acknowledgements)
• References

Manuscripts should be prepared in Microsoft Word or any other word processor and should be converted to PDF format before submission. The publication format will be PDF. The manuscript should be at least three pages (including figures, table,s and references). There is no page limit, although authors are asked to keep their papers as concise as possible.

Manuscript Preparation

Paper Format: A4 paper format, the printing area is 17.5 × 26.2 cm. The margins should be 1.75 cm on each side of the paper (top, bottom, left, and right sides).

• Formatting/Style: Papers should be prepared following the style of Toxins. The full titles and the cited papers must be given. Reference numbers should be placed in square brackets [ ], and placed before the punctuation; for example, [1,2], [3] or [1–3], and all the references should be listed separately and as the last section at the end of the manuscript.

• Author List and Affiliation Format: Authors' full first and last names must be given. Abbreviated middle names can be added. For papers written by various contributors a corresponding author must be designated. The PubMed/MEDLINE format is used for affiliations: complete street address information including city, zip code, state/province, country, and email address should be added. All authors who contributed significantly to the manuscript (including writing a section) should be listed on the first page of the manuscript, below the title of the article. Other parties, who provided only minor contributions, should be listed under Acknowledgments only. A minor contribution might be a discussion with the author, reading through the draft of the manuscript, or performing English corrections.

• Figures, Schemes, and Tables: Authors are encouraged to prepare figures and schemes in color. Full color graphics will be published free of charge. Figures and schemes must be numbered (Figure 1, Scheme I, Figure 2, Scheme II, etc.) and an explanatory caption must be added. Tables should be inserted into the main text, and numbers and titles for all tables supplied. All table columns should have an explanatory heading. Please supply legends for all figures, schemes, and tables. The legends should be prepared as a separate paragraph of the main text and placed in the main text before a table, a figure, or a scheme.

For further enquiries please contact us at iect2021@mdpi.com

Presentation Slides

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

Besides their active participation within the forum, authors are also encouraged to submit video presentations. If you are interested in submitting a video presentation, please contact the conference organizer at iect2021@mdpi.com to find out more about the procedure. This is an unique method of presenting your paper and discussing it with peers from all over the world. Make a difference and join us for this project!

Presentation of Posters

Authors that wish to present a poster only, i.e., without proceedings paper, can do so in Section I. Posters of this conference. 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 that are submitted without a paper will not be included in the proceedings of the conference.

Posters should have the following information:

• Title (with authors and affiliations)
• Introduction/Objectives/Aims
• Methods
• Results
• Conclusion
• References
• Acknowledgments
• Contact information

For consideration for this award, posters should be accompanied by a three-minute video presentation. During the conference, the chair will be invited to judge the quality of the video presentations and posters. Presentations will be judged on how well they are able to summarize the content of the work and make the observer interested in viewing the poster. Posters will be judged on clarity quality of appearance.

Potential Conflicts of Interest

It is the authors' responsibility to identify and declare any personal circumstances or interests that may be perceived as inappropriately influencing the representation or interpretation of clinical research. If there is no conflict, please state here "The authors declare no conflict of interest." This should be conveyed in a separate "Conflict of Interest" statement preceding the "Acknowledgments" and "References" sections at the end of the manuscript. Financial support for the study must be fully disclosed under "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).