Instructions for authors | Sportis. Scientific Technical Journal of School Sport, Physical Education and Psychomotricity

Sportis Scientific Technical Journal is a fourth-monthly publication that considers for its publication original manuscripts related to the areas of the school sport, physical education and psychomotricity. Once the author sends the article for its review and publication, if it proceeds, Sportis acquires all the exclusive rights about the publication of the selected works. The concepts, judgements and opinions expressed in the articles will be the author’s responsibility.

The authors have all the extended information on the regulations of the journal in the section About the journal

The most important aspects are summarized below, but we recommend reading the section indicated above in full:

GUIDELINES FOR AUTHORS

Sportis Revista Técnico-Científica is a quarterly publication and considers for publication original manuscripts related to the areas of sports, physical education and psychomotor skills in childhood, childhood, adolescence and adulthood. Once the author submits the article for review and publication, if applicable, Sportis acquires all exclusive rights to the publication of the selected works. The concepts, judgments and opinions expressed in the articles will be the responsibility of the authors.

Authors are recommended before submitting an article to watch the following explanatory video on how to submit an article and cover the metadata on the journal's website (CLICK HERE)

Those interested in publishing in Sportis should carefully read and follow the following instructions here:

1.- General Rules

1.1 Papers submitted for publication must be unpublished and may not be presented simultaneously in another journal. Sportis holds all copyrights to published works, however, it allows for subsequent transcription by citing the source appropriately. The journal does not contemplate any type of remuneration for authors.

1.2 Sportis may receive for publication only works submitted in the following languages: Spanish and English, and the authors are responsible for the texts and their respective translations when necessary. The works must be of a precise and clear wording, avoiding ambiguities. Authors must submit the title, abstract and keywords of the article in English and Spanish, and may send the full text in any of these languages.

1.3 Sportis reserves the right to submit all original works to the Editorial and Scientific Committee and the external reviewers they designate. All reviews of the articles will be in pairs and double-blind. When necessary, the journal's management may request the review of the article from a third, fourth or fifth reviewer.

1.4 Accepted papers will be published on the journal's website and incorporated into the corresponding issue and volume.

1.5 The dates of reception, acceptance and online publication of the work will be, mandatorily, at the end of the author's data and before the abstract, on the first page of each article when it is published.

2.- Formats

Authors may submit works developed in the field of analytical research (theoretical, history or synthesis reviews), quantitative research, experimental research and/or qualitative research. The journal's management establishes the following formats of articles:

2.1. Original articles: Includes quantitative, experimental, qualitative research or case studies in the field of sport, physical education or psychomotor skills in childhood, adolescence or adulthood. The maximum length of the body of the manuscript will be 6000 words, including a minimum of 30 updated bibliographic references (50% of the last five years) and abstracts in Spanish and English.

2.2. Literature reviews: Including those of a systematic and narrative nature, corresponding to topics related to the focus of the journal, physical education, sports or psychomotor skills in childhood, childhood, adolescence or adulthood. Authors can consider the subareas in the journal's regulations. The maximum length of the body of the manuscript is 8000 words, including up to 100 updated bibliographic references (50% of the last five years) and abstracts in Spanish and English. For those of a systematic nature, the use of the PRISMA Declaration (Preferred Reporting Items for Systematic reviews and Meta-Analyses) is required http://www.prisma-statement.org/PRISMA%20Spanish%20Sept%202010.pdf.

2.3. Due to editorial needs and/or agreements with the author, these formats may vary for the benefit of Sportis' mission.

3.- Continuous Evaluation Plan for the improvement of editorial quality

The journal has established a continuous evaluation plan for quality improvement. Within this plan, authors are asked to include the mandatory DOIs of all references that have this identification, as well as a search of articles published in the last 5 years carried out in the Web of Science and Scopus databases.

Perform a search in Web of Science and Scopus for articles published in the last 5 years that can be cited in your work.
Access this link https://apps.crossref.org/simpleTextQuery Copyand paste the bibliographic references of your article in the space indicated within the previous link. The platform will tell you which references have DOIs. Then copy and paste each completed DOI and add it to the end of each of your article references. It is very important that each bibliographic reference of your work has its corresponding DOI at the end of it, if you have one. This allows search engines to locate works cited by other authors more quickly and easily and is a quality requirement of our journal.

Example of how the DOI should go at the end of each bibliographic reference

Yanci, J., Arcos, A. L., Castillo, D. y Cámara, J. (2017). Sprinting, Change of Direction Ability and Horizontal Jump Performance in Youth Runners According to Gender. Journal of Human Kinetics, 60(1), 199–207. https://doi.org/10.1515/hukin-2017-0103

4.- Presentation of the manuscript

4.1. General format of the manuscript

Manuscripts submitted to Sportis must be written at 1.5 line spacing (except for the abstract and keywords that will be single-spaced) and without spacing of the previous and/or subsequent paragraph, on dinA4 size sheet (21 x 29.7 centimeters), with margins of 3 centimeters on its upper and lower edge and 2.5 centimeters on its right and left edge, in Time New Roman font with 12pt size characters, black ink and numbered pages in the middle of the footer and from the first page. The beginning of each paragraph during the text will be marked with a tab of 1.25 points, except in the abstract. The titles of the sections of the article will be in bold and lowercase (only the first letter in capital letters).

Authors will send only two word files . The first of them will contain the title of the article in Spanish and English, the data of the authors and their affiliations and the data of the corresponding author in Spanish and English. In addition to the data related to funding, informed consent, conflict of interest and participation of the authors in the text. The latter data will be covered as follows

Specific contribution of the authors: Mark each of the sections of the article and indicate in parentheses the initials of the authors who have participated in them.

Funding: Indicate if the article is the result of funded research, if it does not have funding, indicate that there was no funding for this project.

Informed consent for study participants: Indicate if it was obtained and if it is not applicable, indicate Not applicable.

Conflict of interest Indicate if there is any conflict of interest, if there is no conflict of interest.

This file will be called AUTHOR DATA.

And in another word file, the full text of the article will be incorporated with the title, abstract and keywords in Spanish and English. This file will not carry the authors' data, it will be anonymous and will be the one that will be passed to peer review. This file will be called FULL TEXT.

4.2. AUTHOR DATA file (Includes author data, title, abstract and keywords).

- The title of the article must be informative and concise of the work being presented, with a maximum of 15 words, in Spanish and English. It will be bold, lowercase, and centered. 1.5 point line spacing.

- Authors must be clearly identified with their first name and two surnames. These will be located below the title, in lower case, without bold and centered. The name and surnames of each one will be placed with semicolon separation. Each author's name must exactly match the name that is incorporated into the platform's metadata. The journal will not accept changes of authors once the work has been submitted.

- The affiliation(s) of each author at the time of the work must be located below the authors, if they are all from the same institution, the name of the institution will be placed below the authors, if they are from different institutions, the affiliation of each one will be indicated by numbers and always placed below the authors (see model in articles already published).

- Contact email of the person responsible for the publication. It will be placed below the affiliation, without bold and centered.

- Source of financial support when applicable, with the identification of the project and the sponsoring institution.

- On a different page, the abstract will be placed, in Spanish followed by the keywords separated by semicolons and in lower case (maximum 5 words preferably using the Thesaurus Sportdiscus/UNESCO and making sure that those that appear in the manuscript are also correctly incorporated, in quantity and order, in the metadata on the website), and then the abstract in English with their respective keywords again separated by semicolons. The total length of the abstract should be no more than 250 words. The abstract should contain one or two lines on the basis of the work, one or two lines with the objective, one or two lines with the methodology, one or two lines with the results and one or two lines with the conclusions. Papers that do not contemplate this will be rejected. The summary and keywords will have single line spacing.

- The abstract must not contain the titles of the sections.

4.3. FULL TEXT File

- In a different file, the title in Spanish and English, the abstract and the keywords separated by semicolons (maximum 5 words will be re-entered, preferably using the Tesaurus Sportdiscus and making sure that those that appear in the manuscript are also correctly incorporated, in quantity and order, in the metadata on the website) both also in Spanish and English. The total length of the abstract should be 250 words. For communications in the format of original articles and research protocols/advances, this should be structured under the IMRD format, including a brief introduction, the objective of the work, the methodology, the results and the main discussion/conclusion. The summary and keywords will have single line spacing.

- 3 to 5 keywords should be included in Spanish and English, favoring terms included in the Sport Discus Thesaurus. The titles of the sections will always be in bold and lowercase.

Subsequently, the full text will be incorporated and the entire file will be anonymized.

4.3.1 For original articles , the IMRD structure must be followed according to the Equator Network Reporting Guidelines of the design of the study presented, containing in each section:

- Introduction/Rationale: It must present a contextualization of the topic, referencing recent research and clearly establishing the importance or interest of having developed the study. End with the exposition of the objective of the research in a concrete way. Written in the present tense and third person.

- Material and method: Methods, equipment and procedures must be identified with sufficient detail to allow their reproduction by other researchers. Methods already published should be cited and those that are little known, modified or new should be described briefly. It should include an adequate description of: a) Study design; b) Population of interest; (c) Selection criteria; d) Variables; e) Measurement and/or monitoring; (f) Statistical analysis; and g) Bioethical considerations. Written in the third person past tense.

- Results: They should be presented in an orderly and coherent manner, without personal comments or explanations, highlighting those most relevant to the objective of the study. They can be accompanied by a maximum of 6 tables and/or graphs and/or figures when necessary for a better understanding. These will be inserted in their corresponding place in the text. The tables, figures and images will comply with the APA 6th or 7th edition regulations (choose only one style) and will have a legend at the foot of the same in the case of images, graphs and figures, and a legend at the top in the case of tables. All of them will be numbered with sequential Arabic numerals. E.g. Table No. 1. Strength levels of children aged 12-13 years.

- Discussion: Emphasize the new and important aspects of the study, interpreting the results obtained without repeating them. Relate existing knowledge, pointing out coincidences and discrepancies with other relevant studies on the subject.

- Conclusions: When the nature of the study and its results allow it. They must be in accordance with the proposed objectives and be supported by the results obtained, thus providing a response to the proposed working hypothesis. The author must specify in a few lines the contribution to the scientific community, the most outstanding, of his work. It is advisable to incorporate work limitations and proposals for improvement or future lines of research.

4.3.2 For literature review, systematic or meta-analysis articles, the IMRD structure must be followed according to the Equator Network Reporting Guidelines of the design of the study presented and contemplating the recommendations of the PRISMA protocol (Click here).

- Material and method: Methods, equipment and procedures must be identified with sufficient detail to allow their reproduction by other researchers. Methods already published should be cited and those that are little known, modified or new should be described briefly. The review should include an adequate description of: a) Study design; b) Population of interest; (c) Selection criteria; d) Variables; e) Measurement and/or monitoring; (f) Data analysis; and g) Bioethical considerations. Written in the third person past tense.

4.4. Bibliographic references

They must be cited as they appear in the text using the APA 6th or 7th edition regulations, authors must choose one of them and comply with a single format/style throughout the manuscript. This regulation will also be used for the citation of authors, placement of tables, figures, images and graphs. Very important, authors must check in this application https://search.crossref.org/references the DOIs of the articles they have referenced. Once located, they will be incorporated into the bibliographic references. It is mandatory that all references incorporate their DOI, unless they do not have one. References will be placed without numbering. In the metadata, a blank line must be left separating the reference from the reference. Failure to comply with this may be grounds for rejection of the article.

4.5. Illustrations, tables and graphs

They must be built in programs appropriate for Word. Tables, tables, graphs, figures and photographs must be numbered sequentially with Arabic numerals and be cited without exception in the text in parentheses. Tables will be numbered in this way (Table No. 1, Table No. 2, etc.) as well as illustrations, graphs, etc. (Figure No. 1, Figure No. 2, etc.). The legend for the tables will be at the top of the center, for the rest of the cases it will be in the lower center of the figure/image/graph without bold and in 10-point font and single line spacing. All of them will be inserted in their place in the text.

- Tables and graphs should have a title and uncommon abbreviations should be explained at the bottom of the title. The tables will have single line spacing, it is the author's responsibility to place the tables correctly in the place of the text where they should go.

- Photographs and illustrations must have an adequate size for their correct viewing and a resolution of 300dpi or dpi (dots or pixels per inch), an image of 10x7.5 centimeters should have an approximate resolution of 1200x900 pixels. Any legend in the illustrations must be at the bottom of the illustrations.

4.6. Scientific Terms

Scientific terms should not be written in abbreviated form. The units of measurement must be presented in accordance with the International System of Measurements in a rigorous manner.

5.- Evaluation

The maximum review time, from confirmation of receipt to first response, will be a maximum of 45 days. The average review time in the Sportis can be consulted on the journal's website, in the statistics section, as well as the percentage of articles accepted and rejected. Sometimes, due to special circumstances, the review time can be extended by 30 more days.

5.1 All manuscripts will be submitted to double-blind peer review.

5.2 Originals that do not comply with any of the rules published herein, in relation to their presentation, will be returned for correction before being evaluated.

5.3 Each work will be reviewed by at least 2 experts in the area addressed in the work and always anonymously.

5.4 Peer reviewers may suggest rejection, the need for minor changes, major changes, or acceptance of the manuscript. In all instances, the authors' assessments will be communicated to the reviewers, together with the editorial decision.

- In case minor changes are requested, the manuscript will be accepted once it includes the requested modifications, without the need for new reviewers.

- In the case of major changes, the manuscript with the modifications will be evaluated by only one of the initial reviewers, this in order to give the greatest coherence and fluidity to the process. This new review will take a maximum of 30 days.

- In the event of rejection, the possibility of resubmitting the modified manuscript or its definitive rejection will be at the editorial discretion.

5.5 Accepted papers will be assigned and published in the first issue of the journal that is available and according to the needs of the Journal. The authors will know at the time of acceptance these data and the date of publication

5.6 Sportis strictly complies with the publication dates of the issues of the magazine, which are as follows each year: 1 January, 1 April, 1 July and 1 October. 4 issues are published per year on a quarterly basis. All users registered in the journal will receive in their email each new issue that is published.

6.- Submission of manuscripts: Manuscripts must be sent only and directly to the editor of the journal, Dr. Víctor Arufe Giráldez, Editor-in-Chief of the Sportis Technical-Scientific Journal, for this the author must register as an author and reader on the journal's website to later upload the article and consult the process of the same by accessing with their passwords. In the submission process, authors are recommended to check the reviewer option, in order to collaborate with the journal in the review of other manuscripts.

SHIPMENT PREPARATION CHECKLIST. CHECK LIST

Authors are provided with a list of aspects that they should check before submitting their article. This checklist contains the most important aspects of the regulations and aims to avoid the rejection of articles due to formatting errors.

The article has not been previously published, nor has it been submitted to another journal (or an explanation has been provided in Comments to the editor).
The manuscript has been prepared in strict accordance with the instructions to the authors.
At least 50% of the bibliographic references are from the last five years. The APA 6th or 7th edition format is used.
The text has 1.5 line spacing; the Time New Roman font size is 12 points; and all illustrations, figures and tables are correctly identified in the text (the tables with the legend at the top centred and without bold, and the images and figures with the legend at the bottom, centred and without bold.
The margins of the page are 3 centimeters on its top and bottom edge and 2.5 centimeters on its right and left edge.
The summary and keywords are laid out with single line spacing and no tabbing. The separation between the title and the text will be 1.5 points.
The title of the article in both English and Spanish is bold, Time New Roman 12 points, 1.5 point line spacing, and centered. The name and surnames of the authors are incorporated under the title, the authors will be separated by semicolons. Below the authors will appear the work center and below it the contact email. All the latter will be written without bold.
Each paragraph of the text begins with a 1.25-point tab in the first line of the paragraph.
Tables and table legends feature 10-point Time New Roman font size, single line spacing, and the legend is located at the top and centered, with no bold font and numbering.
The photographs, images, graphics and figures are in 10-point Time New Roman font, with a caption at the bottom, without bold, centered and numbered.
References have their DOI incorporated after passing them through the DOI search engine https://search.crossref.org/references
I confirm that the metadata corresponding to the title, abstract and keywords of the article are in both languages (Spanish and English). Articles that do not meet this premise will be rejected.
I confirm that I am sending two separate Word files: AUTHOR DATA and FULL TEXT. The first file incorporates all the authors' data indicated in the shipping regulations; full name and surname of all authors and their order of appearance, affiliations, ORCID and contact email of the main author. The second file incorporates the title of the work, abstract and keywords in both languages; Spanish and English, followed by the full text of the work with the different sections or sections and finally the bibliographic references according to APA standards sixth edition and including the DOI of all the articles that have it.
I am aware that this journal, as it does not have public or private funding, is forced to charge a small fee to the authors to maintain the minimum quality standards and the entire professional structure of the journal and to pay the fees of the workers who participate in it: computer scientists, secretary, layout designers, etc. This fee of 200 euros (including taxes) will only be charged if the item is accepted. There is no cost for the submission of the article and its revision. This fee will be paid once it is accepted and is necessary to maintain the journal's quality standards.

The copyright of all articles published on Sportis belongs to Sportis. The publication of the information present in the journal is authorized as long as it is correctly cited (Sportis).

PRIVACY STATEMENT

The names and e-mail addresses entered in this magazine will be used exclusively for the purposes stated by this magazine and will not be available for any other purpose or person.

Example of article submission for evaluation according to the Journal's standards

Previous knowledge and knowledge acquired after a day of training on first aid in future Physical Education teachers

Prior and acquired knowledge after a day of training on first aids in future teachers of Physical Education

Rubén Navarro Patón; Pablo García Marín; José Eugenio Rodríguez Fernández

Faculty of Teacher Training. Lugo Campus. University of Santiago de Compostela.

Contact: ruben.navarro.paton@usc.es

Authors' specific contribution: Introduction (RNP), Methodology (PGM, RNP), Results (JERF, RNP), Discussion and Conclusions (PGM)

Funding: There was no funding for this project.

Informed consent study participants: Informed consent was obtained.

Conflict of interest: The authors do not point out any conflict of interest.

Summary

The aim of this research was to investigate the knowledge about first aid, and especially CPR, that the students of the Primary Education Teacher Degree of the Faculty of Teacher Training of Lugo had, before and after receiving a 3-hour theoretical-practical training day in three phases (1- expository-demonstrative, 2- interactive with problem solving in small groups and 3- interactive with problem solving in large groups). The sample (N=23) was composed of 9 men (39.1%) and 14 women (60.9%) enrolled in the Physical Education major. To know the previous knowledge (CI) and acquired (CF) after the training day, an Ad Hoc questionnaire with 25 items was administered. The descriptive results of the IC revealed a lack of knowledge of future Physical Education teachers in relation to first aid. The data provided by the CF, reaching an average of 90% of questions correctly answered, endorse the effectiveness of the methodology and duration of the training proposed in the short term. Knowledge retention is presented as a limitation of the study and will be evaluated later. In conclusion, the importance of future Physical Education teachers being adequately trained in the subject of first aid is highlighted and it is proposed that it be part of the contents of the degree in Primary Education.

Keywords

Accidents; Emergency; protocols; initial evaluation; formation; final evaluation; teaching staff..

Abstract

This research was intended to investigate (test) the knowledge of the students of master degree in Elementary Education from the Faculty of Teacher Training Lugo about their knowledge on first aid and C.P.R, before and after receiving a theoretical day training practice of three hours in three different ways (First(1)-exhibition-demonstration, Second(2)- solving a practical situation of the problem in small groups and third(3)- solving a practical situation of the problem with a large group). The sample (N = 23) consisted of 9 men (39.1%) and 14 women (60.9%) studying the degree of P.E. To find out the previous knowledge about the topic and at the end of the training session we created a test that was giving to them previous the training First test(FT) and after training day Second test(ST) to see the progress of the students after the training , a questionnaire with 25 items Ad Hoc was given. The descriptive results of the FC revealed a lack of knowledge of future teachers in the P.E topic of first aid. These procedures have been identified to make an improvement of the new teachers with appropriated training sessions. In data obtained from the ST, we reach on average more than a 90% of correct answers proving the efficacy of the methodology and duration of training given in short period of time. The retention of knowledge about this topic was shown as a limitation of the study and will be evaluated later on. In conclusion, the importance of the knowledge on the topic first aid and C.P.R in future teachers of P.E is proved after doing the test and is proposed as part of the topics to be teach on the degree.

Key Words

Accidents; emergencies; protocols; initial assessment; training; final assesment.