Participants in this conference are cordially invited to contribute a full manuscript to the conference's Special Issue, published in Philosophies (ISSN 2409-9287, Impact Factor 0.7), with a 20% discount on the publication fee. Please note that the discount can solely be utilized in conjunction with the IOAP discount; no additional discounts are applicable. All submitted papers will undergo MDPI’s standard peer-review procedure. The abstracts should be cited and noted on the first page of the paper.

Carefully read the rules outlined in the 'Instructions for Authors' on the journal’s website and ensure that your submission adheres to these guidelines. Use the Microsoft Word template or LaTeX template to prepare your manuscript.

If you wish to publish an extended proceeding paper (no more than eight pages), please submit it to Proceedings journal (ISSN 2504-3900) after the conference. Publication of the proceedings will be free of charge.

Authors are asked to disclose that it is a proceeding paper of the IOCPh 2025 conference paper in their cover letter. Carefully read the rules outlined in the 'Instructions for Authors' on the journal’s website and ensure that your submission adheres to these guidelines.

Proceedings submission deadline: 31 August 2025 30 September 2025

Manuscripts for the proceedings issue must be formatted as follows:

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