The conference "Nutrients 2019 - Nutritional Advances in the Prevention and Management of Chronic Disease" will accept abstracts only.
The accepted abstracts will be available online on Sciforum.net during and after the conference. Moreover, participants will have the opportunity to contribute with a full manuscript to the special issue "Nutritional Advances in the Prevention and Management of Chronic Disease" in the journal Nutrients.
To present your research at the event
- Create an account on Sciforum if you do not have one, then click on ‘New Submission’ on the upper-right corner of the window, or by clicking on ‘Submit Abstract’ at the top of this webpage.
- Indicate what thematic area is best suited for your research.
- Submit an abstract in English - the word limits are: minimum 150 words and maximum 300 words.
- The deadline to submit your abstract is 31 May 2019. You will be notified by 28 June 2019 about the acceptance for poster presentation.
- Upon submission, you can select if you wish to also be considered for oral presentation. Following assessment by the Chairs, you will be notified by 28 June 2019 in a separate email whether your contribution has been accepted for oral presentation.
- Please note that, in order to finalize the scientific program in due time, at least one registration by any of the authors, denoted as Covering Author, is required to cover the presentation and publication of any accepted abstract. Covering Author registration deadline is 24 July 2019. Your abstract will be withdrawn if your registration is not complete by this date.
- Authors with multiple contributions: please note that one author registration will cover only ONE accepted contribution. Authors presenting more than 1 contribution during the event will be charged 50 euro per additional abstract (e.g., 1 author with 2 abstracts: registration fee + 50 euro; 2 authors with 3 abstracts: 2 registration fees + 50 euro; etc.).
Oral Presentations
Short talks will be 15 min long including questions (12+3 Q&A). The typical presentation should be up to 10–12-minute talk. If you wish to use an event specific graphic as header or footer on your presentation, please see the downloadable banner below:
All presentations must be uploaded in advance. Please bring your presentation to the registration desk at least 30 min before the start of your session, or at the end of the previous day for the early morning sessions. A technician will be available to assist you.
Poster Information
Maximum poster size limited to A0: 84 x 120 cm (width x height) in vertical orientation (portrait). Please print your poster prior to the conference. If you wish to use an event specific graphic as the header or footer on your poster, please see the downloadable banners below:
Optional A0 banner (841 x 120 mm)
Optional A1 banner (594 x 85 mm)
Your poster will be displayed according to your poster number found in the Book of Abstracts, and it will be allocated to one of the two formal poster sessions listed below, during which you are required to stand at your poster:
- Session A (Thursday, 26 September): Posters 1 to 60 (both included) in the book of abstracts. Posters should be set up during the morning and must be removed by 17:00. The posters remaining after this time will be removed and recycled.
- Session B (Friday, 27 September): Posters 61 to 118 (both included) in the book of abstracts. Posters should be set up during the morning and must be removed by 16:30. The posters remaining after this time will be removed and recycled.
Ten posters will be selected prior to the conference by the Scientific Committee, and the authors will have the opportunity to present their poster in a 3-min Flash Presentation during a special session that will take place on the first day of the conference. The Best Poster Award will be selected and granted to one of these ten flash presentations.
All posters must be removed by Friday at 16:30. After that time, they will be removed and recycled by the Conference staff.
Publication Opportunities
- All accepted abstracts will be available online in Open Access form on Sciforum.net.
- Participants of this conference are cordially invited to contribute with a full manuscript to our Special Issue "Nutritional Advances in the Prevention and Management of Chronic Disease" in the journal Nutrients.
- The submission deadline for this special issue is 28 February 2020. Conference participants will be granted a 25% discount on the publication fees. Please note that no other institutional discounts will be applicable, except from reviewers’ discount vouchers.
- Nutrients is indexed by the Science Citation Index Expanded (Web of Science), MEDLINE (PubMed), Scopus and other databases, and has an Impact Factor of 4.171.