Registration for this conference is FREE and the works selected for their presentation on the conference will be published as conference proceedings at no cost.

Submissions should be made by authors online by registering with www.sciforum.net and using the "New Submission" function once logged into the system.

1. Scholars interested in participating in the conference can submit their abstract (about 150–300 words) online on this website before 26 August 2021.
2. The Conference Committee will notify the acceptance of the abstract by 6 September 2021.
3. In case of acceptance, authors will be encouraged to submit their manuscript (short proceedings paper, 3-8 pages) before 29 September 2021. As an alternative, authors of accepted abstracts that do not wish to submit a paper will be able to submit a poster and/or short video presentation (max. 3-5 minutes) before 29 September 2021.
   
   Please note that accepted abstracts that are not accompanied by either a paper or a video/poster will be withdrawn from the system and, as such, will not be included in the proceedings.
   
   
4. Submitted Papers will be evaluated by the Conference Committee. Authors will receive a notification about the acceptance of their papers by 13 October 2021.
5. The manuscripts and presentations will be available on the conference website for discussion and rating during the conference, from 1–15 November 2021.
6. All accepted proceedings papers and accepted abstracts will be published as one dedicated volume in MDPI Materials Proceedings series journals (ISSN 2673-4605). Publication of proceedings paper is free of charge.
7. The open access journal Polymers (IF 3.426) will publish a conference Special Issue. Conference participants are encouraged to submit a full paper to the dedicated Special Issue, and will receive a 20% discount on the Article Processing Charges (APC). Please note that this discount cannot be combined with other available institutional or editorial discounts.

Proceedings Paper

Proceedings papers must be prepared in MS Word using the Proceedings template indicated below, and should be converted to PDF format before submission.

Download the template files for your IOCPS 2021 Proceedings Paper here:

IOCPS2021_Word_Template

The manuscript should count at least 3 pages (incl. figures, tables and references) and should not exceed 8 pages. 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 should have the following structure:

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

For further inquiries, please contact us at iocps2021@mdpi.com

Video Presentations
Authors are encouraged to submit video presentations as supporting material. This is an unique way of presenting your work and discussing it with peers from all over the world. The video should be no longer than 3-5 minutes and prepared with one of the following formats: .mp4 / .webm / .ogg (max size: 250Mb). It should be submitted directly to the conference platform before 29 September 2021.

Potential Conflicts of Interest
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 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 that 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).