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Author Guidelines

All manuscripts should be submitted electronically through our online submission portal. Submitted articles must undergo a double-blinded peer review process guided by our multidisciplinary editorial board.  Please contact [email protected] with any questions regarding the submission process.

  • Submission or a work to the Journal of Women’s Sports Medicine implies that it is:
    • Original work
    • Not published elsewhere or under consideration for publication elsewhere
  • Authorship should be based on ICMJE criteria for authorship which should be confirmed by the corresponding author

All submissions should include the following:

  • Title page uploaded as a separate file, which includes the following information:
    • Title
    • Authors
    • Author affiliations
    • Acknowledgements
    • Corresponding Author contact information
  • Blinded manuscript
  • Disclosure Forms: All authors must download, complete and submit the ICMJE Form with their submission.

The Journal of Women’s Sports Medicine encourages the following types of submissions, particularly those that have taken a cross-disciplinary approach to address sports medicine topics in female athletes:

  • Original scientific articles
  • Review papers
  • Case reports

Original articles, systematic reviews and meta-analyses should be formatted as follows:

    • Abstract (maximum 400 words)
    • Introduction
    • Methods
    • Results
    • Discussion
    • Conclusions
    • References
    • All illustrations, figures, and tables are placed within the text at the appropriate points, rather than at the end

Case reports should consist of the following structure:

    • Abstract (maximum 400 words)
    • Introduction
    • Case report
    • Discussion
    • References
    • All illustrations, figures, and tables are placed within the text at the appropriate points, rather than at the end

All manuscripts should be adhere to the following formats:

    • The submission file should be in OpenOffice, Microsoft Word, or RTF document file format.
    • Single spaced text
    • Continuous line numbering
    • 12-point font
    • Employs italics, rather than underlining (except with URL addresses)
    • All illustrations, figures, and tables are placed within the text at the appropriate points, rather than at the end
    • Maximum word count 4,000 (excluding references)
    • References should be numbered in the order of appearance in the text
    • References should be formatted should be per ICJME guidelines
    • Where available, URLs for the references should be provided.

 

Submission Preparation Checklist

All submissions must meet the following requirements.

  • 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 adheres to the stylistic and bibliographic requirements outlined in the Author Guidelines.
  • The text is single-spaced with continuous line numbering; 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.
  • Disclosures: All authors must download, complete and submit the ICMJE Form (http://www.icmje.org/disclosure-of-interest/).

Copyright Notice

SettingsThe Journal of Women's Sports Medicine is an open access journal. There are no author fees or article processing charges associated with publication in this journal. Open access articles are published under the CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 license.  Authors must confirm that the manuscript being submitted to the Journal of Women's Sports Medicine has not been previously published, nor is it before another journal for consideration (or an explanation has been provided in Comments to the Editor).

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