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Editorial Ethics Policy
Submission Guidelines, Revised for 2008
In preparing manuscripts for publication in the Journal of Sport & Exercise Psychology (JSEP), authors should closely follow the Publication Manual of the American Psychological Association (5th ed., 2001). Copies can be found in most university libraries and bookstores. To order, visit
http://www.apa.org/books/bestsellers.html
or call APA Books at 1-800-374-2721. Prior to acceptance, the author names and dates in the text must match those in the reference list.
Authors should submit their manuscripts electronically via the JSEP Manuscript Central site, an online submission system. Manuscript Central will manage the electronic transfer of JSEP manuscripts throughout the article review process, providing step-by-step instructions and a user-friendly design. Please see
http://mc.manuscriptcentral.com/hk_jsep
Problems can be resolved by choosing “Get Help Now” in the upper right corner of the screen.
At least two reviewers are solicited for each manuscript. Manuscripts are evaluated via masked review. There are no page charges to authors. Manuscripts should not be submitted to another journal at the same time. Authors of manuscripts that are accepted for publication must transfer copyright to Human Kinetics Inc.
Authors must submit a separate cover sheet that lists the title of the manuscript, date of submission, the full name of the author(s), their institutional or corporate affiliation(s), and the full mailing addresses of all coauthors. The first page of the manuscript, however, should include only the title of the manuscript and date of submission. The manuscript itself should contain no clues as to the author’s identity. All articles must include an abstract of 100−150 words and three to six key words chosen from terms not used in the title. Tables should be formatted using Microsoft Word’s table-building functions.
The order of the elements within a standard research article should be
1. title
2. abstract
3. key words
4. introduction
5. methods
6. results
7. discussion
8. end notes
9. acknowledgments
10. reference list
11. figure captions
12. tables
Figures. Technical art should be professional in appearance and have clean, crisp lines. Hand drawings and hand lettering are not acceptable. Software-generated “screens” (i.e., dot patterns) do not reproduce well during the printing process and should not be used to create shading. Instead, stripe patterns or solids are better choices for shading. After acceptance, electronically created figures should be submitted for publication as .tif or .pdf files. Figures should be of a resolution high enough for professional printing (300 dpi). Note that JSEP does not support color artwork at this time.
Article Type. Review articles and single-study experimental/methodological reports should not exceed 28 pages (including references, tables, figures, etc.). Multistudy reports are encouraged, and may exceed the 28-page guideline, but they must be parsimoniously presented. Brief reports are limited to 12 pages all inclusive. Research reports should be condensed as much as possible and will be judged on their topical relevance, methodological adequacy, and clarity of reporting. For studies involving human subjects, the Methods section must include a statement regarding informed consent and institutional approval of the protocol. Authors are expected to have their raw data and descriptive statistics available throughout the review process and may be asked to provide elaboration.
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