As part of the submission process, authors are required to check their submission's compliance with all of the following items, and submissions that do not adhere to these guidelines will be returned to authors.

  

·         The text adheres to the stylistic and bibliographic requirements outlined in the Author Guidelines, which are found in About the Journal.

 ·         If submitting to a peer-reviewed section of the Journal, the instructions in Ensuring a Blind Review have been followed.

 ·         Plagiarism check. (plagiarism is copying another's work or borrowing someone else's original ideas.)

  

GUIDELINES FOR CONTRIBUTORS 

 The LASE Journal of Sport Science is a journal of published manuscripts in English from various fields of sport science. 

• original research papers (maximum 12 standard pages of typescript, including tables, figures, references and abstract)
• review papers commissioned by the Editor (maximum 20 standard pages of typescript, including documentation)
• short communications (maximum 3 standard pages of typescript plus two table or figure and up to 5 references)
• letters to the Editor delivering an opinion or a comment to published manuscripts (maximum 2 standard pages of typescripts)
• current news (information on conference, abstracts of PhD. theses and Post-Doc. theses, book reviews, biographical notes)
• advertisements that may be covered on separate pages of the journal (prices are subjects to individual negotiations)

Authors should observe the ethics of manuscript preparation (avoiding duplicate publication, inaccuracy of citations, fraudulent publication, plagiarism and self-plagiarism).

Authors are responsible for the factual accuracy of their papers, for obtaining permission to reproduce text or illustrations from other publications and for an ethical attitude regarding the persons mentioned in the manuscript.

 

 

Research reports should include a description of the practical application(s) of the ideas tested, while reports of teaching practice or techniques should contain an explanation of the theoretical foundation underlying the practice or technique in question.

 Material in the form of illustrations or photos is welcomed. This material should be accompanied by text clearly setting out its philosophical or practical origins or implications. All material should be clearly referenced to its sources.

The manuscripts should be arranged as follows: title page, abstract and body text

Title page should contain: title of the paper, first and last names of authors with affiliation, first and last name of corresponding authors with postal address, telephone, fax and e-mail.

Abstract (up to 250 words) consisting of the following sections: justification and aim of the study, material and methods, results, conclusions, as well as 3-6 key words, should be provided before the body text.

Body text should be sectioned into: Introduction, Material and Methods, Results, Discussion, Conclusions, Acknowledgements (If necessary) and References. In articles of others types, the text should follow in a logical sequence and headings of its particular sections should reflect issues discussed therein.

Introduction – should be short and concise; it should introduce readers into research problems addressed in the study as well justify undertaking the research and specify its aim.

Material and methods – should describe the subject of the study (in the case of human subjects data should include their number, age, sex and any other typical characteristics) and methods applied in a sufficiently exhaustive way to enable readers to repeat the experiments or observations. For generally known methods only references should be given, whereas detailed descriptions are to be provided for new or substantially modified methods.

Results – should be presented in a logical sequence in the text, tables and figures. Data collated in table and figures should not be repeated in the text which should summarize the most important observations.

 Discussion – should emphasize new or important aspects of experimental results and discuss their implications. Results of own studies are to be compared with findings described in the respective domestic and international references used by the Authors.

 Conclusions – should be started in points or descriptively and should be logically connected with objectives stated inIntroduction. Statements and conclusions not derived from own observations should be avoided.

 References – following instructions for Authors on References (APA style).

 

Citing in-text

Following artificial text shows different types of in-text citation:

Claessens (2010) found evidence that attention will be given to multi-compartment models, such as the 3-water, 3-mineral and 4-compartment models, to assess percentage of body fat. However, Raslanas, Petkus and Griškonis (2010) noted that Aerobic physical load of low intensity got 35.1 % of total trainings time. Research on physical loading also focused on identifying the basis of many years’ research of physical activity (Bytniewski et al. 2010). According to Ezerskis (2010), “… heavy physical loads had the undulating character depending on the dynamics of workloads…” (p. 71) yet girls are more ascertained that the Track & Field training helps to develop courage.

 

Please provide all the required elements in the references to your paper. Please pay particular attention to spelling, capitalization and punctuation. Accuracy and completeness of references are the responsibilities of the author. Before submitting your article, please ensure you have checked your paper for any relevant references you may have missed.

A complete reference should give the reader enough information to find the relevant article. If the article/book has DOI number, the author should include it in the references. And most importantly, complete and correct references may allow automatic creation of active links by the MetaPress technology that we use for making the electronic version of our journal. Active reference linking is regarded as the greatest benefit of electronic publishing and it adds a lot of value to your publication.

 

 Tables – should be prepared on separate pages (saved in separate files) and numbered using subsequent Arabic letters. They should be provided with titles (above). Every column in a table should have a brief heading and more extensive explanation should be given under the table, e.g. statistical measures of variability.

 Figures – should be prepared in an electronic form and saved in separate files. A separate page should be provided with legends to figures, authors’ names, manuscript’s title, and consecutive number of figure with “bottom” or “top” identification. Photographs or other illustrative materials may be submitted in an electronic form (*.tif, *.jpg, image resolution: 300 or 600 dpi) or any other form suitable for final technical typesetting by the Editorial Office. In the appropriate places in the text consecutive numbers of tables or figures should be provided in parentheses, e.g. (Tab. 1) or (Fig. 1). Places of insertion of the illustrative material should be marked with pencil on the margin of the typescript.

 

General principles – the Editorial Office reserves for itself the right to correct stylistic errors and to make necessary changes (abridgements) in the text without Author’s knowledge. Articles not accepted for publication are not returned. Manuscripts not prepared following Instruction to Authors will be sent back to Authors for revision. Galley proofs of manuscripts will be sent to Authors for proofreading. It is the Author’s responsibility to return the proof within one week. Each Author will receive free-of-charge one copy of the issue in which their work appears.

Manuscripts are liable to copyright resulting from the Berne Convention for the Protection of Literary and Artistic Works and from the Universal Copyright Convention. Any part of the manuscript may be reproduced, archived nor transferred in any form without consent of the copyright owner.