GUIDELINES FOR CONTRIBUTIONS

Language and types of contribution
The European Journal for Sport and Society (ejss) contains several forms of contributions: Articles (normally 8,000–10,000 words), congress reports (normally 1,000–1,500 words) and book reviews (normally 1,000‑1,500 words). The European Journal for Sport and Society considers all manuscripts under the strict condition that they have solely been submitted to the European Journal for Sport and Society and that they have neither been already published, nor are under consideration for publication or in press elsewhere; this also applies to manuscripts in languages other than English. If another version of the article is under consideration by another publication, or has been, or will be published elsewhere, authors should clearly indicate this at the time of submission. Articles should be submitted electronically as a Microsoft-Word-file (including abstract and keywords), double-spaced and with ample margins. All pages should be numbered consecutively. All manuscripts must be submitted in English. British spelling should be used. The texts must show an appropriate language level and must have been reviewed by a native English speaker prior to submission. Articles may be returned to authors for additional language amendment before or after they have been introduced to the review process. This may delay those accepted for publication but is subject to language amendments.

Abstract and keywords
An abstract of 100-200 words and 5 keywords maximum must also be supplied together with the article.

Author note
Details of the author’s institutional affiliation, full address (including e-mail) and other contact information as well as a biographical note of 25 to 50 words should be included on a separate cover sheet in order to allow the introduction of the article in an anonymised form to the review process.

Peer Review Statement
All articles in this journal have to undergo rigorous peer review based on initial editor screening and anonymised refereeing by two referees.

Quotations
All direct quotations of 35-40 words or more should be displayed as indented text, but still double-spaced.

Notes
Try to avoid using too many notes. Where they are necessary, they must be brief and should appear at the bottom of the page.

Format of references
In general, articles predominantly using current international references (i.e. English-speaking) are favoured.

We follow the rules described in the Publication Manual of the American Psychological Association, 6th edition, 2009 (APA-citation rules) for references. Identify all references to books, monographs, articles and other sources, at an appropriate point in the main text, by citing the author’s last name, year of publication, and pagination where appropriate, all within parentheses. Specify subsequent citations of the same source similarly; do not use ‘ibid.’, ‘op.cit.’ or ‘loc.cit.’. If the author’s name is in the text, use only the year of publication in parentheses, e.g. Fasting (1988). If the author’s name is not in the text, include both the author’s name and the year of publication separated by a comma within the parentheses, e.g. (Elias, 1982). Pagination follows year, e.g. (Bourdieu, 1981, 45-6). With dual authorship give both names, e.g. (Birrell & Cole, 1987); for three to five authors list all authors in the first mention and subsequently use ‘et al.’, for more than six authors use ‘et al.’ from the beginning. If there is more than one reference to the same author and year, distinguish between them by use of the letters ‘a’, ‘b’, etc. attached to the year of publication, e.g. (Foucault, 1979a). A series of references should be enclosed within a single pair of parentheses, separated by semicolons, e.g. (Maguire, 1984; Rowe, 1987; Thompson, 1988).

Figures, tables, maps and diagrams
These items must be presented on separate pages at the end of the article, and should carry short descriptive titles. Their position within the text should be clearly indicated. They must use Times new Roman as font and be precisely drawn to enable photographic reproduction. Line diagrams should be presented as camera-ready copy (b/w – unless an arrangement has been made to reproduce in colour) and, if possible, submitted as separate Illustrator, EPS file (all fonts embedded) or TIFF file (without tints or corrections). For scanning, photographs should preferably be submitted as clear, glossy, unmounted b/w prints with a good range of contrast.

Proofs
Authors will see proofs for checking and correction.