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INFORMATION FOR AUTHORS
OF SPORTSCIENCE ARTICLES
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The main focus of this site is now
research resources and topical information such as conference reports, opinions
on recently published papers, and so on. If you would like to contribute,
here's what to do.
- Read the guidelines on style for articles at this
site.
- Use the template
appropriate for the section of the journal.
- News and Comment
is for a short item about sport research in progress or in print,
highlights of a recent or upcoming conference, a hot topic on a mailing
lists, a new item of equipment, or anything else of interest to the
sport-science community. An item of only a few paragraphs will be
included with others iin an In-Brief article.
- Write a Perspectives
article if you want to put forward a personal view of a topic. The
scope of the article should be similar to that of a mini review or a
leading article.
- The Reviews
section is for a traditional scholarly review of a topic related to
human physical performance. We have novel approaches for the structure
of the review and for reporting findings.
- An Original
Research article is for a traditional report of your own previously
unpublished research. As for Reviews, we have several novel approaches
for structuring the article and reporting outcomes.
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Click on the link to download the template in
Microsoft rich-text format (files ~300 K in size) or latest Word format (~70
K). Each template contains further instructions.
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News and Comment:
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rich-text
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Word
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Perspectives:
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rich-text
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Word
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Reviews:
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rich-text
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Word
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Original Research:
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rich-text
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Word
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- To create figures for
presenting data, download the templates in this Excel 97/98 workbook. The
workbook has further instructions.
- You may send short
articles as text in an e-mail message for preliminary review.
- Submit the article
for full review to the editor
as an attached file, preferably in Word 97/98 format.
- Your article will
receive blind review. If your article is acceptable, the reviewer(s)
will be named in your article.
- Be prepared to
cooperate with the editor, who may rewrite parts of your article for
brevity and clarity.
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Read the copyright notice.
Main points: you retain the copyright to your articles, but articles
published at the site cannot be removed or altered without permission of the
editor.
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Last updated 12 Jan 02