These guidelines give authors an overview of the submission process for Sports Engineering. Please read
this document carefully to ensure that your manuscript observes them.
Submission of a manuscript implies: that the work described has not been published before; that it is not
under consideration for publication anywhere else; that its publication has been approved by all coauthors, if any, as well as by the responsible authorities – tacitly or explicitly – at the institute where the
work has been carried out. The publisher will not be held legally responsible should there be any claims for
compensation.
Submit a manuscript using the editorial manager at: http://www.editorialmanager.com/spen/.
T YPES
OF SUBMISSION
Sports Engineering
submission types:
accepts
the
following
Research articles
A description of a study with a clear research
question and novel and interesting results. A
research article should be around 4,000 words
with no more than 10 figures. Longer articles,
with justification from the authors, require
editorial approval.
Technical notes
Technical notes are shorter than research articles
and may be used to describe a new methodology
or to present results from new techniques or
equipment. A technical note should be under
3,000 words with no more than 5 figures and
tables.
Review articles
Typically review articles are invited content but
we will consider well written reviews which are
relevant, timely and potentially high impact. We
will discuss article length directly with invited
authors.
P ERMISSIONS
Authors wishing to include figures, tables, or text
passages that have been published elsewhere are
required to obtain permission from the copyright
owner(s) for both the print and online format and
to include evidence that such permission has
been granted when submitting their papers. Any
material received without such evidence will be
assumed to originate from the authors.
C OMMON
REASONS FOR RE JECTION
Before you submit to the journal please consider
the following common reasons for rejection
• Weak or unclear research question
• Work is not novel
• Poor level of written English
• Poorly structured manuscript
• Literature not discussed critically
• Uncertainty in results not addressed
• Lack of article’s adherence to the author
guidelines
• Work is outside the journal aims (accessible
from homepage)
E THICS
All authors are expected to uphold professional
ethical standards in any research published in the
journal. This includes giving proper authorship
credit, keeping research team members safe, and
being honest and forthcoming in the reporting of
methods and results. Beyond this, some types of
research require further ethical review. In the
case of experimental work involving humans
and/or animals, authors must state that they
received ethical clearance from their appropriate
human and/or animal research ethics board. This
should be stated at the start of the methodology
section.
Editor in Chief: Prof. Lloyd Smith: [email protected]
Associate Editors: Dr Tom Allen: [email protected] and Dr Simon Choppin: [email protected]
E QUATIONS
Online document
Variables must be defined in the body of the
manuscript using concise, italicized names.
Multiplication is assumed for adjacent variables,
so that “x” is not needed. Equations must be
typeset (i.e. do not use “^” for superscript). Units
should be included in the results, not the
equation.
5.
Haake S (1998) The physics of football.
IOP
Publishing
PhysicsWeb.
http://physicsworld.com/cws/article/print/1998/j
un/01/the-physics-of-football. Accessed 4 April
2013
Equations should be presented as a word in
sentence, they are not introduced and referred to
as figures and tables are. E.g.
1
Springer referencing guidelines
T EMPLATE
The drag force, Fd, was found from
𝐹𝑑 = 2 𝜌𝐴𝐶𝑑 𝑉 2
Always use the standard abbreviation of a
journal’s name according to the ISSN List of Title
Word Abbreviations.
(1)
where,  is the air density, A is…
B IBLIOGRAPHY & R EFERENCING
References should appear numerically in order of
their first appearance within the text. Citations
should appear as a number contained within
square brackets, for example [1] or [1, 2].
Journal article
1.
McNeil JA, Hubbard M, and Swedberg A,
(2012) Designing Tomorrow's Snow Park Jump.
Sports Eng. 15:1-20.
Ideally, the names of all authors should be
provided, but the usage of “et al” in long author
lists will also be accepted:
2.
Noroozi S, Sewell P, Rahman AGA et al.
(2011) Modal analysis of composite prosthetic
energy-storing-and-returning feet: an initial
investigation. Proc IMechE, Part P: J Sports
Engineering and Technology.
Book
3.
Daish CB (1972). The Physics of Ball
Games. English Universities Press, London.
FILES
For authors using EndNote, Springer provides an
output style that supports the formatting of intext citations and reference list.
EndNote style (zip, 2 kB)
Authors preparing their manuscript in LaTeX can
use the bibtex file spbasic.bst which is included in
Springer’s LaTeX template.
T HE
MANUSCRIPT
The submitted manuscript should include the
following sections
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Abstract (150 to 250 words)
Introduction
Methods (including ethics statement)
Results
Discussion
Conclusions
Acknowledgements
References
For guidance on the nature, purpose and
structure of these sections please see scidev.net’s
guide ‘how do I write a scientific paper?’.
E NQUIRIES
Contact the Editorial team with any enquiries
regarding your submission
Book chapter
4.
Strangwood M. (2007) Modelling of
materials for sports equipment. In: Subic A (ed)
Materials in Sports Equipment, Volume 2.
Woodhead Publishing Ltd, Cambridge, pp 3–34
Editor in Chief: Prof. Lloyd Smith: [email protected]
Associate Editors: Dr Tom Allen: [email protected] and Dr Simon Choppin: [email protected]
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