Information For Authors

1.- SECTIONS

Original and unpublished scientific studies, both empirical and theoretical, and notes on sociological investigations or related areas will be regularly published. Exceptionally, the journal will publish sections on debates, states-of-the-art, monographic sections, bibliographic reviews, and contents of special interest for the sociological community will also appear.

The regularly published sections will have the following contents and length:

• Research articles. Original scientific texts, both empirical and theoretical, that deal with the topics of sports sociology, with a maximum length of 8,000 words, including figures, graphs, footnotes and bibliographic references.
• Research notes. Brief scientific texts, preferably of an empirical nature, with a maximum length of 4,000 words, including figures, graphs, footnotes and bibliographic references.

In both cases, each contribution should include an abstract of no more than 200 words and no more than 5 key words, written in both Castilian and English.

The contributions should follow the Chicago style norms (author-date) .

 

2.- PROCEDURE FOR SUBMITTING MANUSCRIPTS

The selection process is free and follows the procedure described below:

1- Reception of manuscripts: to present original manuscripts to Sociología del Deporte (SD), you should access the website devoted to this journal on the Open Journal Systems platform, after having registered at the following link:

https://www.upo.es/revistas/index.php/sociologiadeldeporte/libraryFiles/downloadPublic/24 [PDF english]

Manuscripts will only be received using this platform, contributions sent by email messages will not be accepted.

Manuscripts should be submitted in their original version, as the authors would like them to figure in the journal edition, and in a completely anonymised version, which does not cite names or institutions of the authors, or any other information that makes it possible to identify the authorship of the article, in order to guarantee impartiality in the assessment of the studies. The anonymised version will be referred to as such in the name of the specific file.

However, doubts or requests for further information about the process for submitting manuscripts should be sent to the following email address: sociologiadeldeporte@upo.es

2- Automatic reply to the sending of a contribution: once the manuscript has been received on the said platform, its author/s will automatically receive an email confirming reception.

3- Verification of the originality of the manuscript. After the contributions are registered, they will be subjected to a verification of their originality, using the Safe Assign tool, which is a system that prevents and detects academic plagiarism. If the presence of coincidences in the registered manuscript is not detected with this tool, it will continue in the corresponding editorial process.

4- The first assessment or prior selection: after its anonymisation, a member of the Editorial Board will confirm whether the manuscript is suitable both regarding the thematic context of the journal, and its general quality. In the case that it is accepted by the Editorial Board, the original anonymised manuscript will be subjected to external assessment.

As a general rule, studies will be excluded whose content is unrelated to the sociological perspective of sport, or its related disciplines indicated in these same norms, or whose topic is not related to the motivation of this journal. Originals that do not follow the correct structure of an academic text or whose writing and style do not present the quality expected in this journal, may also be excluded. Notwithstanding the above, if the Editorial Board considers it appropriate, the author/s may be asked to correct the errors in the format or presentation, or to adjust it to the requirements detailed in the writing style norms.

In the case that the article is rejected, the Editorial Board will notify the author/s justifying their decision.

5- Peer review: each contribution that complies with the requisites for assessment, according to the criteria of the Editorial Board, will be sent anonymously to be reviewed by at least two external specialists. These reviewers will issue a reasoned report on the scientific quality of the manuscript and the suitability or not of it being published, which will be taken into account by the Editorial Board. If there were no agreement among the reviewers, an assessment could be requested from a third expert.

 The member of the Editorial Board who was assigned the initial assessment of the contribution will draw up a definitive commentary or assessment report, based on the independent evaluations of the specialists together with his or her own evaluation, and will submit it for debate to the Editorial Board for a final decision.

 This report or commentary, together with the reports of the external reviewers and the final decision by the Editorial Board will be sent to the authors by email.

6- Decisions by the Editorial Board: The Editorial Board can take four types of decisions according to the external assessments of each manuscript:

1. Publishable with no modifications.
2. Publishable with minor modifications: the manuscript will be published directly or after receiving minor improvements.
3. Publishable with major modifications: it could be published after receiving major improvements.
4. Not publishable: the manuscript will not be published. 

The plenary sessions of the Editorial Board will take place at least twice a year, and at least half plus one of the members must be present.

The authors of the manuscripts that are reviewed for their publication will have two weeks to inform Sociología del Deporte (SD) if they agree to carry out the possible modifications as proposed by the Editorial Board, as well as time limit within which they undertake to send in the revised version, which in no case can exceed two months. The manuscript, once revised, should be sent to the journal again together with a memorandum explaining the changes made, clearly detailing the changes proposed and accepted or not, with the reasons they consider pertinent. If the Editorial Board considers that the modifications made correspond to those required, the manuscript will be considered approved for publication.

7- Video-Abstract: Sociología del Deporte (SD) includes in each of the published contributions access to a video-abstract using a QR code, thus responding to the proposal of this journal to reach specialised readers and other types of public more easily. Thus, the author/s whose originals have been accepted will be requested to provide a video presenting the information in the abstract of the article in the language in which it is published. In the case that this is not done before the publication of the issue the journal will make the video-abstract with the collaboration of the members of the Editorial Board, after having requested prior permission from the authors.

8- Criteria of the Editorial Board: the factors on which the decisions on the acceptance-rejection of manuscripts are based are as follows: originality and significance of the contribution to the context of sociology of sport, as well as the methodological quality and presentation or style of the submitted text.

 

3.- ETHICAL ASPECTS

Sociología del Deporte (SD) adheres, in general, to the Code of Conduct and the Best Practices Guidelines for Journal Editors of the Committee on Publication Ethics – COPE) and is governed by the following aspects that figure in its own code of conduct:

 

Open Access. It shares the ethical principles of other publications which use the open Access system, as it understands that scientific knowledge should be democratically and freely accessible to the whole of society.

Totally free. The submission of manuscripts, their assessment and, if appropriate, their eventual publication involves no cost for the author/s. Moreover, the majority of the programmes used for the journal (the journal web support – Open Journal Systems – the submission of scientific contributions, etc.) form part of free educational and academic projects, and do not depend on large commercial groups in the scientific market.

Peer review. The publication aspires to reaching the highest quality possible in the studies that it publishes, so that it uses a refereed system of peer reviews by external experts, as part of a transparent process for the acceptance of contributions.

Inclusive normative. The norms for the presentation of manuscripts (Chicago style) have been adopted to make visible the names of the authors of the publications in the bibliographic references.

Anti-plagiarism system. All the contributions received by the journal and accepted for their assessment by the Editorial Board will be submitted to a system of verification of originality using the academic plagiarism prevention and detection tool Safe Assign.

Transparency. Sociología del Deporte (SD) will make public at the beginning of each year a report on activities of the previous year, with a minimum content as follows: 

a) Identities of all the external reviewers during the previous year

b) Total number of manuscripts received.

c) Total number of manuscripts rejected in the prior selection.

d) Total number of manuscripts assessed in the plenary sessions of the Editorial Board: how many were accepted, how many needed revisions and how many were rejected for publication.

e) Average time lapse from reception of manuscript to communication of the result of the assessment to the author.

Obligations of the author/s. The authors of the originals submitted for evaluation to Sociología del Deporte (SD) undertake not to submit the same manuscript for evaluation in other journals during the evaluation process in this journal. Likewise, if it has been previously published in another type of format, it will be communicated to the Editorial Board so that it can evaluate the appropriateness of accepting it in the editorial process. The authors also undertake not to publish the articles accepted by Sociología del Deporte (SD) in any other journal, in any paper or electronic format, unless requested and with the prescriptive authorization and, in any case, , leaving the authors subject in their own person to possible conflicts for reasons of copyright. Lastly, the authors will transfer to Sociología del Deporte (SD) the public communication rights of their manuscript for its dissemination and exploitation through the means they deem appropriate, by making it available to users for consultation online. line of its content and its extract, for printing on paper and/or for downloading and archiving, all under the terms and conditions that appear on the website where the work is hosted. All this without prejudice to the diffusion itself made by the authors through their own means.

4.- Copyright:

Authors who have published works in Sociología del Deporte (SD) will maintain their copyright and guarantee the magazine the right of first publication of their work, which will be simultaneously subject to the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International License. that allows third parties to share the work provided that reference is made both to its author and to the fact that the work has been published in the journal.

In case of co-authorship, the authors must indicate to the journal the level of contribution in each of the phases of both research and writing. For this, it is recommended to follow the CRediT taxonomy https://casrai.org/credit/

4.- DIGITAL PRESERVATION POLICIES

Through the OJS (Open Journal System), the journal has an archiving system that guarantees its digital preservation. Specifically, this magazine keeps the PKP PN (https://docs.pkp.sfu.ca/pkp-pn/en/), CLOCKSS (Controlled Lots of Copies Keep Stuff Safe) and LOCKSS systems activated. In this way, the articles are progressively archived, thus guaranteeing that the stored digital information can remain and continue to be used in the future.

5.- POLICY REGARDING THE DEPOSIT OF ARTICLES BY THE AUTHORS

The authors can make the submitted version (or preprint) public whenever they want, without waiting for acceptance, in an institutional repository or in any other repository they wish, however; as well as the Accepted Version (or Author Accepted Manuscript) and the Published Version (or Version of Record) can be published without restrictions or embargo period from publication in the journal.

6.- DATABASES

Sociology of Sport (SD) is indexed in Dialnet and MIAR. It is expected that it will gradually become part of the following databases: Latindex, CIRC, ERIH and CARHUS Plus+. In the long term, its challenge is to submit to the evaluation of the editorial and scientific quality of Spanish scientific journals by the Spanish Foundation for Science and Technology (FECYT), with the aim of obtaining the FECYT Quality Certificate for this type of journal. publications. To do this, since its launch, it has implemented the 17 requirements demanded from this Foundation of the Ministry of Science and Innovation of the Government of Spain, requirements that are part of those demanded in most international indexing systems.