Instructions for Authors
Procedure for Submission
Submissions should be made online by authors by registering with and using the “New Submission” function once logged into the system.
Note: Institutional email address is requested especially for the corresponding author. Please submit the abstract along with an institutional email address.
1. Scholars interested in participating in the conference can submit their abstract (about 200–300 words) online on this website until
Note: Publication of proceedings paper is free of charge. Before publication, Medical Sciences Forum journal will check the plagiarism issue again. Submissions with a lack of novelty will not be published in the journal.
The submission to the Special Issue is independent of the conference proceedings and will follow the usual process of the journal, including peer review, APC, etc. All participants of IECV 2023 are welcome to submit an extended full paper to the conference Special Issue "Selected Papers from the 1st International Electronic Conference on Vaccines: RNA Vaccines, Current Challenges and Future Developments (IECV2023)" of the journal Vaccines, with a 20% discount on the article processing charge.
Note: Institutional email address is requested especially for the corresponding author. Please submit the abstract along with an institutional email address.
1. Scholars interested in participating in the conference can submit their abstract (about 200–300 words) online on this website until
11th July 2023 15th September 2023 . The Conference Committee will notify regarding acceptance of the abstract by 25th July 2023 27th September 2023.
2. In case of acceptance, authors will be asked to submit their manuscript (short proceedings paper, 3–6 pages), a poster, a slide presentation (in PDF), or a short video presentation (max. 3–5minutes) before 13th September 2023 20th October 2023. Authors will receive notification about the acceptance of their paper by 30th September 2023 20th November 2023.
3. The manuscripts and presentations will be available on Sciforum.net for discussion and rating during the time of the conference, 1–15 December 2023.
Note: Publication of proceedings paper is free of charge. Before publication, Medical Sciences Forum journal will check the plagiarism issue again. Submissions with a lack of novelty will not be published in the journal.
The submission to the Special Issue is independent of the conference proceedings and will follow the usual process of the journal, including peer review, APC, etc. All participants of IECV 2023 are welcome to submit an extended full paper to the conference Special Issue "Selected Papers from the 1st International Electronic Conference on Vaccines: RNA Vaccines, Current Challenges and Future Developments (IECV2023)" of the journal Vaccines, with a 20% discount on the article processing charge.
Proceedings Papers
Proceedings papers must be prepared in MS Word using the template (See below) and should be converted to PDF format before submission. The manuscript should be at least 3 pages (incl. figures, tables, and references) and should not exceed 6 pages. Please carefully read the rules outlined in the Instructions for Authors on the journal website and ensure that your manuscript submission adheres to these guidelines.
Manuscripts for the proceedings issue must be structured as follows:
- Title
- Full author names
- Affiliations (including full postal address) and authors’ e-mail addresses
- Abstract
- Keywords
- Introduction
- Methods
- Results and Discussion
- Conclusions
- (Acknowledgments)
- References
Slide Presentations
Authors are encouraged to prepare a presentation in PowerPoint (or similar) software, to be displayed online. Slides can be prepared in the same way as for any traditional conference. They should be converted to PDF format before submission.
Video Presentations
Videos should be no longer than 3–5 minutes and prepared in one of the following formats: .mp4/.webm/.ogg (max size: 250 Mb). These should be submitted before 13th September 2023 (full submission deadline).
Posters
Posters will be available on the conference website during and after the event. Similarly to papers presented at the conference, participants will be able to ask questions and make comments about the posters.
1)The poster should be in PDF format
2)The minimum size for images is 148 mm × 210 mm (horizontal × vertical) at 300 dpi.
3)The content of the poster should be a comprehensive presentation of your accepted submission.
4) No copyright issues with any elements in the poster.
2)The minimum size for images is 148 mm × 210 mm (horizontal × vertical) at 300 dpi.
3)The content of the poster should be a comprehensive presentation of your accepted submission.
4) No copyright issues with any elements in the poster.
Potential Conflicts of Interest
All authors must disclose all relationships or interests that could inappropriately influence or bias their work. This should be conveyed in a separate “Conflict of Interest” statement preceding the “Acknowledgments” and “References” sections at the end of the manuscript. If there is no conflict, please state “The authors declare no conflicts of interest”. Financial support for the study must be fully disclosed under the “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).