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Submission Preparation Checklist

As part of the submission process, authors are required to check off their submission's compliance with all of the following items, and submissions may be returned to authors that do not adhere to these guidelines.
  • The submission has not been previously published, nor is it before another journal for consideration (or an explanation has been provided in Comments to the Editor).
  • The submission file is in OpenOffice, Microsoft Word, or RTF document file format.
  • Where available, URLs for the references have been provided.
  • The text is single-spaced; uses a 12-point font; employs italics, rather than underlining (except with URL addresses); and all illustrations, figures, and tables are placed within the text at the appropriate points, rather than at the end.
  • The text adheres to the stylistic and bibliographic requirements outlined in the Author Guidelines.

Original research

Original Research should not exceed 3000 words, excluding references and tables.

Additional material may be presented as supplementary information, which will be published in a single Word/PDF file in the Appendix should the article be accepted (this can be in any format: text, tables, images, videos, etc).

For all original research we ask you to provide in 3-4 bullet points subheadings “What is already known”, and “What are the new findings”, highlighting the clinical relevance of your work.

For the main body of the paper, we encourage short introductions when the rationale of the study is obvious, i.e. it may be as short as 3 paragraphs if that addresses “Why we did it”.

Word count: up to 3000 words
Abstract: up to 250 words and structured including the headings; Objectives, Methods, Results and Conclusion
Tables/illustrations: up to 6 tables and/or figures
References: up to 40
Reporting guidelines: dependent upon the design of your study

Review Article

Review

Review articles should not exceed 4500 words, excluding references and tables.

Reviews provide in-depth discussions in established and new areas in sports and exercise medicine. If you feel your review warrants additional length, consult the editorial office and/or mention the reason in your Cover letter.

For all reviews we ask you to provide in 3-4 bullet points subheadings “What is already known”, and “What are the new findings”, highlighting the clinical relevance of your work.

Systematic review

Systematic reviews provide Level One evidence; they form a critical part of the literature.

Narrative review

We consider narrative reviews of general topics of importance to the sports and exercise medicine clinician.

Consensus statement

Please follow the steps in the Agree Reporting Checklist and upload as Research Checklist when submitting your article.

Word count and references can be discussed with the editor.

Short report

Short reports should not exceed 1500 words excluding references and tables. Short reports in general describe original research.

For all short reports we ask you to provide in 3-4 bullet points subheadings “What is already known”, and “What are the new findings”, highlighting the clinical relevance of your work.

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