Submissions should be done by the authors online by registering with www.sciforum.net, and using the "Start New Submission" function once logged into system.
- Scholars interested in participating with the conference can submit their abstract (about 200-250 words) online on this website until 13 September 2019 13 October 2019.
- The Conference Committee will pre-evaluate, based on the submitted abstract, whether a contribution from the authors of the abstract will be welcome for the 5th International Electronic Conference on Entropy and Its Applications. All authors will be notified by 30 September 2019 20 October 2019 about the acceptance of their abstract.
- If the abstract is accepted for this conference, the author will be invited to prepare a full description of their work (max. 8 pages), optionally along with a PowerPoint presentation /poster, until the submission deadline of 8 November 2019.
- The conference proceedings papers and presentations will be available on https://sciforum.net/conference/ecea-5 for discussion during the time of the conference 18 November–30 November 2019.
- Accepted papers will be published in the Journal Proceedings. After the conference, the authors are recommended to submit an extended version of the proceeding papers to the Entropy Special issue with 20% discount of the APC charges.
Manuscripts should be prepared in MS Word or any other word processor and should be converted to the PDF format before submission. The publication format will be PDF. The manuscript should count at least 3 pages (including figures, tables and references).
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 in the website using Sciforum.net's proprietary slides viewer. Slides can be prepared in exactly the same way as for any traditional conference where research results can be presented. Slides should be converted to the PDF format before submission so that our process can easily and automatically convert them for online displaying.
Video Presentations
Authors are also encouraged to submit video presentations. If you are interested in submitting, please contact the conference organizer (ecea@mdpi.com) to get to know more about the procedure.
Tips for authors: If you would like to prepare a video (15-20 minutes) based on your PPT presentation, you may use the "record slide" function in the PowerPoint. After recording, you can save the file as type: MPEG-4 Viedo (*.mp4).
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. 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.
Copyright 
MDPI AG, 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 AG 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).
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