Instructions for Authors
Instructions
Smart Sustainable Cities 2025 will accept abstracts only. The accepted abstracts will be available online on Sciforum.net during and after the conference.
The conference will be held fully online; further meeting details will be announced. Please note that abstract submission and conference registration are two separate processes. Please use your institutional email address for both processes.
To present your research at the event
- Create an account on Sciforum if you do not have one and then click on ‘New Submission’ in the upper-right corner of the window; or, click on ‘Submit Abstract’ at the top of this webpage.
- Choose a session that is best suited for your research.
- Submit an abstract in English—the word limits are a minimum of 150 words and a maximum of 300 words.
- The deadline to submit your abstract is 3 December 2024. You will be notified about its acceptance by 10 January 2025.
- Upon submission, you can select if you wish to be considered for oral or poster presentation (or both). Following assessment by the Chairs and Scientific Committee, you will be notified by 10 January 2025 whether your contribution has been accepted for oral or poster 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 the Covering Author, is required to cover the presentation and publication of any accepted abstract. The Covering Author registration deadline is 24 January 2025. Your abstract will be withdrawn if your registration is not complete by this date.
Oral Presentations
Selected talks will be 15 minutes long, including questions (10-minute oral presentation + 5-minute Q&A). Invited speakers will have a 30-minute slot, including questions (25-minute oral presentation + 5-minute Q&A).
Please ensure that your slides are formatted in a widescreen (16:9) aspect ratio.
Poster Presentations
Your poster should be in the following format:
• Includes title, authors, contact details, and main findings of your research, as well as tables, figures, and graphs where necessary.
• File format: PDF
• Size in pixels: 1080 width x 1536 height—portrait orientation
• Size in cm: 38,1 width x 54,2 height—portrait orientation
• Font size: ≥16
Publication Opportunities
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All accepted abstracts will be available online in Open Access form on Sciforum.net during and after the conference.
- Participants of this conference are cordially invited to contribute a full manuscript to the Special Issue in the journal Smart Cities, with a 20% discount on the publication fees.
- Smart Cities is indexed within Scopus, ESCI (Web of Science), Inspec, AGRIS, and other databases, and has an Impact Factor of 7.0 (Q1) and a 5-year Impact Factor of 6.1 (2024).