Submissions

Author Guidelines

The standards presented here are based on the VANCOUVER international standards for periodicals.

The Revista Iberoamericana de Ciencias de la Actividad Física y del Deporte is a multidisciplinary scientific journal about Physical Activity and Sport Sciences, which includes multidisciplinary knowledge generation. Its periodicity is four-monthly

The content must be ORIGINAL and UNPUBLISHED (papers).

The articles we publish must be scientific and/or technical, based on research, with clearly specified objectives (both of the work done and of what is intended to be communicated), with consistent international bibliographic data, methodologies appropriate to the study, the conclusions related to the objectives set and with original and novel results.

General articles will also be published, including REVIEWS on current topics, provided that at least all the literature that has appeared in the last five years is reviewed; or THEORETICAL, HISTORICAL or PHILOSOPHICAL articles, provided that they include a systematic review of what has been published on the topic, a well-founded critical review (not unverified opinions) and original results.

Articles sent to our journal may not be sent to any other journal while the review process is underway, nor may they be submitted in parallel to any other evaluation process in another journal.

The articles are sent anonymously to two external evaluators, professional specialists in the field, for their supervision (double blind method, by pairs). If there is a discrepancy, it will be sent to a third evaluator.

The articles must have clearly identified the objectives of the work they intend to publish and the conclusions must refer to these.

The manuscript will be sent in SPANISH, and will be evaluated and corrected in that language.

FORMAT
The authors will send the article according to the format of the following template provided.
Template in Spanish, DOC format
Text in Word format, Arial font (automatic colour, black, except for titles). Spacing 1, leaving a blank space between paragraphs; margins (top, bottom and sides) 3 cm. Text size 12 points, except for titles and author data.

TITLE in Spanish, in capital letters, centred, in black, bold, size 16 points, no more than 80 keystrokes (counting white spaces) or twelve words.

TITLE in English, in capital letters, centered, in black, bold, size 16 points, not more than 80 keystrokes (counting white spaces) or twelve words.

Section titles (SUMMARY, KEY WORDS, INTRODUCTION; OBJECTIVES, MATERIAL AND METHODS, RESULTS, DISCUSSION, CONCLUSIONS AND BIBLIOGRAPHY or others that the author considers appropriate) will be in capital letters, bold and without a full stop.

The grammatical and orthographic rules of the Spanish Language Academies must be respected and we recommend the use of inclusive language.

The title, summary and key words in Spanish and English must be included.

The author(s) must appear below the title in bold (Arial size 12), in order of importance or alphabetical order of surname(s) and the initial of the name (e.g. Fernandez Garcia, JC.) We remind the authors that there is no rule regarding surnames, they can send us one or two surnames, separated by a dash or not, as they think they are better identified (Ex: Fernández García, JC.; Fernández-García, JC.; Fernández, JC.) Anglo-Saxon databases usually remove the first surname if it is not hyphenated (although the article is always recognizable by the rest of the data). Once the article is accepted for publication, no changes in the authors will be admitted. Any doubt about authorship will cause the article to be withdrawn.

Below the authors, the e-mail addresses of all the authors will appear in 10 point font (this will serve to check that all the authors agree to sign the paper). They should put their professional title and their place of work, including the country where it is located.

If the paper has been funded, or acknowledgements should be made, they will appear at this time, among the authors and rankings, in size 10. Authors are obliged to declare, if this is the case, the support or funding received to carry out the research to be published, as well as the research projects or contracts funded as a result.
SUMMARY and ABSTRACT: there will be a summary in Spanish and another in English (abstract). They should be no longer than 150 words.

KEY WORDS: There will be between 3 and 10 key words contained in the SportDiscus thesaurus or the most appropriate database for the article (Medline, Eric,...). ALWAYS IN MINUSCULES!

The text will be a maximum of 4500 words, 6 figures and 6 tables

No footnotes will be posted.
The text of the articles on observation and experimentation are usually, but not necessarily, divided into the following sections:

- INTRODUCTION (presentation, state of play, objectives)
- MATERIALS AND METHODS (including permits and ethical aspects)
- RESULTS
- DISCUSSION
- CONCLUSIONS (in relation to objectives)
- REFERENCE (only those appearing in the text and with international standards)

The titles of these sections, as well as SUMMARY, KEY WORDS, ABSTRACT and KEY WORDS will be written in capital letters.

The text can be accompanied by illustrations, photos, graphics or sketches, always original or accompanied by the permission of the editor or author for publication, in digital format (.jpg or .gif) in color or black and white; also sound in .mid or mp3 format, animation computed in .FLI, .AVI or other HTML compatible format. They should be embedded in the text where appropriate.

REFERENCES

References: Bibliographic citations are mandatory. Only the bibliographic citations used for the article and cited within the text should appear. It is understood that only those that are pertinent and appropriate to the work and updated to the date on which the work is sent are referenced.

Bibliographic citations must be current and only in historical works is it allowed to exceed the reasonable margin to lose the current status and be considered old.

Only the VANCOUVER standards in their latest edition will be used.

Bibliographic references must be written in the original language of publication.

If the reviewers and/or editors (or a posteriori readers) detect any citation where it is evident that it has not been used as a primary source, and the article is made to be understood in this way, the article will be immediately withdrawn, giving rise to misconduct by the authors that will prevent them from publishing in our journal in the future.

ETHICAL AND LEGAL PRINCIPLES

No texts are published with content that promotes any type of social, racial, sexual or religious discrimination; nor are articles that have already been published elsewhere.

The works must comply with the ethical standards of work with human beings or animals, respecting the Declaration of Helsinki and the Declaration of Human Rights or any other written on the subject.

The journal is not responsible for the opinions, images, texts and works of the authors or readers who will be legally responsible for their content. It is understood that all the authors have given their consent to be included, for which the sending author will be responsible.

In case of legal conflict with any aspect of a published work, the plaintiff must demonstrate reliably and through a complaint, the alleged crime or misdemeanor committed by the authors, in which case the work will be withdrawn until the publication of the ruling or agreement. The result will be announced in the journal.

The articles can be reproduced as long as their origin is clearly cited and the service is free of charge. In paid services, permission must be expressly requested and the corresponding fees paid to the magazine and to the authors. The copyright is held jointly by the authors and the magazine, the latter having the distribution and dissemination rights.

In accordance with Vancouver regulations, the article will be signed by those who have actually participated in its preparation, and the magazine reserves the right to investigate the specific participation of any or all of its members.

The verification that an author or authors who submit to this journal an article for evaluation (or publication) in which it is proven that they have plagiarized some work from this or another publication will automatically cause it to be rejected, and from now on, the works in which said author or authors appear will not be accepted.

In procedures used for works, not published but created by other persons, they will be explicitly cited in the article. They are considered oral sources.

When the data of the work have not been collected by the authors of the work, the source will be cited and the authorization to use such data will have to be provided.

The published data will always remain anonymous, both personally and institutionally, unless explicit permission is given by persons or institutions to be named. In any case, they shall comply with the legal regulations on data protection.

UNITS OF MEASUREMENT

The International System of Units (SI) will be used and not the Anglo-Saxon system of units (English or imperial system). Examples: In thousands 1,000 and not 1,000; in decimals 2.6 and not 2.6

STATISTICS

Samples should be appropriate to the population under study when attempting to draw generalised conclusions for that population. If population-based conclusions are to be drawn, the sample must represent the population and must be statistically proven.

DITORIAL NEWS AND REVIEWS

Those editorial news sent to the magazine's editorial staff will be published in the news section. They may be accompanied by anonymous or signed reviews.

AGENDA

Institutional notices (courses, conferences, congresses, lectures, etc.) must be sent four months before the date of the event.

RECEPTION OF ARTICLES AND COMMUNICATION WITH AUTHORS

Send the articles through the digital platform of the magazine and following its instructions, in addition they will be incorporated in CC (carbon copy) to all the co-authors, so that they are aware of the sending of the article to the magazine. Receipt will be acknowledged and articles will be evaluated if they meet the formal requirements. Once evaluated, the authors will be informed if they are advised to make any modifications; if not, they will only receive notification of their publication.

The journal does not issue certificates to prove that an article has been submitted or published. The publication of an article is considered a certificate in itself.

The journal does NOT communicate with the authors, except for a message of reception informing that it will be evaluated if it complies with the formal aspects of publication, communication on aspects to be modified after the evaluation, if necessary, and communication of its imminent publication. The message of explicit reception of the article, communicating that it is going to be evaluated, is the receipt of the article for all purposes.



STATEMENT TO BE INCLUDED IN THE MESSAGE OF REFERRAL OF THE ARTICLE

"Mr. Director:

I am enclosing the manuscript entitled: "_________________________" for your consideration for publication in the Ibero-American Journal of Sports Science.

Both my co-authors: (names and surnames), and I (name and surname), note (or confirm) that this manuscript presents the results of an original (or review) paper [remove what does not apply]. We also inform you that the data from the research have not been published previously, nor are they being submitted for your consideration in any other scientific journal and have been collected by us (or have been provided to us by ___________ [entity or person, put what is appropriate] and given the corresponding permission for their use).

We declare that we have respected all the ethical principles required by your journal, as well as requested all the appropriate permissions.

We declare that we know and abide by the rules of the Journal.

All the authors agree to send this manuscript to the consideration of the Revista Iberoamericana de Ciencias del Deporte, which I credit by also sending this mail to all my co-authors, and I personally assume the responsibility for the reception of the comments and revisions that may arise, serving as a link between the journal and my co-authors".

REFEREE SYSTEM

Once the formal requirements have been met, according to an assigned Editor, and within a period of no more than two weeks, the article will be passed on to two evaluators who must submit their report within a maximum of three weeks. If the two reject the work, it will be rejected. If one rejects it and the other accepts it, it will be sent to a third evaluator. The report of this third evaluator will decide: if he accepts it, it will be accepted and if he rejects it, it will be rejected. The authors in either case will receive the full reports of the evaluators.

If the article is accepted with modifications, the authors will read the reports and according to them they will decide what and how they should change the article, in some cases they can decide not to change it. When sending the corrected article, they must send in the body of the message or in an attached letter, justification of the changes or explanation of why they have not been made. Once this correction has been sent, the editorial committee will decide on its final acceptance, except in very specific cases, which will be sent for a second re-evaluation to the reviewer because the latter has previously recommended it and the journal's management has accepted it.

It is not the intention of the journal, when rejecting an article, to point out that the topic is not of interest, but that in the opinion of the evaluators, as it stands, it cannot be published. We encourage authors to redo the work, in which case it will enter as a new article that will be re-evaluated, starting the process again.

The articles definitively accepted will be published in strict order of entry regardless of the time spent on evaluation. Except for very relevant and current interest and exceptionally, decided by the editorial committee and the management team, advised by the scientific committee, will opt to advance their publication.

EXTERNAL EVALUATORS

The Revista Iberoamericana de Ciencias de la Actividad Física y el Deporte has an International Editorial Committee, as well as a Scientific Committee (reviewers) also international and all external to the University of Málaga. The members of this scientific committee have been selected for their proven competence in the scientific objectives of the journal, have a proven record of research in Sports Science and have credibility in the ethical management of research.

The reviewers who have accepted this role for this journal accept and declare that they have no financial, intellectual or personal interest in the article and will not disseminate the information obtained through the review of the article prior to publication.

We ask our evaluators to write the report with the necessary rigor, clarity and cordiality so that it can be sent directly (anonymously) to the authors. We ask that you send us the Evaluation Report within the indicated time frame - since sometimes the work and commitments certainly do not allow it - we ask that you indicate this so as not to harm the authors or, ultimately, the research community in this line of research, and that you maintain the confidentiality of the content of the articles submitted for evaluation, which cannot be used or cited without the express permission of the authors, or until publication. Papers are unpublished and it is the responsibility of the Journal and its evaluators to strictly observe this rule.

Evaluators may request not to evaluate a paper if they have doubts about its technical ability to evaluate it or if there are any ethical circumstances that prevent them from doing so.

Evaluators will analyse papers from a technical rather than an ideological point of view. They may disagree with this line of work, but this ideological disagreement may not be a reason for rejecting an article, although it may be a reason for abstaining from the evaluation.

Authors may request not to be evaluated by a certain person for motivated reasons.


OTHER IMPORTANT INFORMATION

The journal has an eminently scientific and technical character and under no circumstances is it subject to any national standard of evaluation of scientists or teachers, especially in terms of deadlines and certificates. The journal will always conform to international standards for scientific publications.

The journal has three annual issues: March, July and December. The date of receipt and acceptance will appear on each article.