The Open Sports Medicine Journal is an Open Access
online journal, which publishes Research articles, Reviews
and Letters in the field of sports medicine, aiming at providing
the most complete and reliable source of information on current
developments in the field.
Manuscripts may be submitted directly to tosmj@benthamopen.org
Each peer-reviewed article that is published in a Bentham
OPEN Journal is universally and freely accessible via
the Internet in an easily readable and printable PDF format.
ONLINE MANUSCRIPT SUBMISSION: An online submission
and tracking service via Internet facilitates a speedy
and cost-effective submission of manuscripts.1
The full manuscript has to be submitted online via
Bentham's Content Management System (CMS) at http://www.bentham-editorial.org/
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Alternatively, you may also submit your full manuscript by
e-mail to tosmj@benthamopen.org
Manuscripts must be submitted by one of the authors of the
manuscript, and should not be submitted by anyone on their
behalf. The principal/corresponding author will be required
to submit a Covering Letter along with the manuscript, on
behalf of all the co-authors (if any). The author(s) will
confirm that the manuscript (or any part of it) has not been
published previously or is not under consideration for publication
elsewhere. Furthermore, any illustration, structure or table
that has been published elsewhere must be reported, and copyright
permission for reproduction must be obtained.
For all online submissions, please provide your complete manuscript
in the form of a single zipped folder containing soft copies
of all the materials (main text in MS Word or Tex/LaTeX),
figures/illustrations in TIFF, PDF or JPEG, and chemical structures
drawn in ChemDraw (CDX)/ISISDraw (TGF) as separate files,
while a PDF version of the entire manuscript must also be
included, embedded with all the figures/illustrations /tables/chemical
structures etc.
It is imperative that before submission, authors should carefully
proofread the files for special characters, mathematical symbols,
Greek letters, equations, tables and images, to ensure that
they appear in proper format.
A successful electronic submission of a manuscript will be
followed by a system-generated acknowledgement to the principal/corresponding
author within 72 hours of the dispatch of
the manuscript. Any questions with regards to the preparation
and submission of your manuscript to the journal should be
addressed to tosmj@benthamopen.org
and copied to managingeditor@benthamopen.org
NOTE: Any queries therein should be addressed
to oa@benthamscience.org
and copied to Jalil@benthamscience.org
Manuscript Preparation: The manuscript should
be written in English in a clear, direct and active style.
All pages must be numbered sequentially, facilitating in the
reviewing and editing of the manuscript.
For further convenience, the customer support team available
at Bentham Publishing Services (www.benthampublishingservices.com)
can provide assistance to authors for the preparation of manuscripts.
Manuscript Length:
Research Articles: The total number of words
for a published research article is from 4000 to 8000 words.
Review Articles: The total number of words
for a published comprehensive review article article is from
8000 to 40000 words, and for mini-review articles from 3000
to 6000 words.
Letter Articles: The total number of words for a
published letter/short communication article is from 3000
to 6000 words.
There is no restriction on the number of figures, tables or
additional files e.g. video clips, animation and datasets,
that can be included with each article online. Authors should
include all relevant supporting data with each article.
Manuscripts Published: The Journal accepts letter
articles, original research articles, and mini- and full-length
review articles written in English. Supplements, proceedings
of conferences and book reviews may also be considered for
publication.
Supplements/Single Topic Issues:
The journal also considers Supplements/Single topic issues
for publication. A Supplements/Single topic will be a collection
of articles (minimum of 6, maximum of 20 articles) based on
a contemporary theme or topic of great importance to the field.
Mini-supplements consisting of between 3 to 5 articles are
also welcome. A Supplement can consist of either all review
articles or a mixture of review and research articles. The
Guest Editors' main editorial task is to invite the contributors
to the Supplement and to manage the peer review of submitted
manuscripts. A short summary or proposal for editing a supplement
should be submitted to the Editor-in-Chief at e-mail to tosmj@benthamopen.org
with a copy to specialissue@benthamopen.org
Conference Proceedings: Authors are welcome
to publish their conference proceedings in 'The Open Conference
Proceedings (www.benthamscience.com/open/toprocj)'
or alternatively in 'The Open Sports Medicine Journal'. Proposals
for publishing relevant conference proceedings should be submitted
to the Editor at e-mail tosmj@benthamopen.org
with a copy to oa@benthamscience.org
Open Access Book Reviews: This journal publishes
open access reviews on recently published books (both print
and electronic) relevant to the journal. Publishers and authors
of books are invited to contact our book reviews editor at
tosmj@benthamopen.org
with book review requests. All submitted books will be reviewed
by an independent expert in the field.
MANUSCRIPT SECTIONS FOR PAPERS: Manuscripts for research
articles and letters submitted to the journal should be divided
into the following sections; however, there can be an extension
in the number of sections in review articles in accordance
with the requirements of the topic.
Covering letter
Title
Title page
Abstract
Keywords
Text organization
List of abbreviations (if any)
Glossary
Conflict of interest (if any)
Acknowledgements (if any)
References
Appendices
Figures/illustrations (if any)
Chemical Structures (if any)
Tables
Supportive/supplementary material (if any)
COVERING LETTER: It is
a mandatory requirement that a signed covering letter also
be submitted along with the manuscript by the author to whom
correspondence is to be addressed, delineating the scope of
the submitted article declaring the potential competing interests,
acknowledging contributions from authors and funding agencies,
and certifying that the paper is prepared according to the
'Instructions for Authors'. All
inconsistencies in the text and in the reference section,
and any typographical errors must be carefully checked and
corrected before the submission of the manuscript. The article
contains no such material or information that may be unlawful,
defamatory, fabricated, plagiarized, or which would, if published,
in any way whatsoever, violate the terms and conditions as
laid down in the agreement. The authors acknowledge that the
publishers have the legal right to take appropriate action
against the authors for any such violation of the terms and
conditions as laid down in the agreement. Download
the Covering Letter
TITLE: The title should be precise
and brief and must not be more than 120 characters. Authors
should avoid the use of non-standard abbreviations. The title
must be written in title case except for articles, conjunctions
and prepositions.
Authors should also provide a short ‘running title’.
Title Page: Title page should include paper
title, author(s) full name and affiliation, corresponding
author(s) names complete affiliation/address, along with phone,
fax and email.
ABSTRACT: The abstract should not exceed
250 words for review and research papers and should be limited
to only 150 words for letters, summarizing the essential features
of the article. The use of abbreviations should be reduced
to a minimum and the references should not be cited in the
abstract.
Keywords: Please provide 6-8 keywords in alphabetical
order.
TEXT ORGANIZATION: The main text should begin
on a separate page and should be divided into separate sections.
For Research articles, the preparation of the main text must
be structured into separate sections as Introduction,
Materials and Methodology, Results, Discussion, Conclusion
and Trial Registration. For Review
and Letter articles, the manuscript should be divided into
title page, abstract and the main text. The text may be subdivided
further according to the areas to be discussed, which should
be followed by the Acknowledgement (if any) and Reference
sections. The review article should mention any previous important
reviews in the field and contain a comprehensive discussion
starting with the general background of the field. It should
then go on to discuss the salient features of recent developments.
The authors should avoid presenting material which has already
been published in a previous review. Trial Registration.
If your research article reports the results of a controlled
health care intervention, list your trial registry, along
with the unique identifying number, e.g. Trial registration:
Current Controlled Trials ISRCTN73824458. Note that there
should be no space between the letters and numbers of your
trial registration number. For this purpose, a clinical trial
is any study that prospectively assigns human subjects to
intervention or comparison groups to evaluate the cause-and-effect
relationship between a medical intervention and a health outcome.
All clinical trials, regardless of when they were completed,
and secondary analyses of original clinical trials must be
registered before submission of a manuscript based on the
trial. Studies designed for other purposes, such as to study
pharmacokinetics or major toxicity (e.g., phase 1 trials),
are exempt. Trial registry name, registration identification
number, and the URL for the registry should be included at
the end of abstract and also in the space provided on the
online manuscript submission form. If your research article
reports the results of a controlled health care intervention,
list your trial registry, along with the unique identifying
number. Note that there should be no space between the letters
and numbers of your trial registration number.
Authors will submit the Trial Protocols along
with their manuscript. The CONSORT (Consolidated
Standards of Reporting Trials) Checklist
and Flowchart is also required when submitting
the results of randomized control trials (RCTs).
Ethical Approval of Studies and Informed Consent:
For human or animal experimental investigations, it is a prerequisite
to provide a formal review and approval, or review and waiver,
by an appropriate institutional review board or ethics committee
and should be documented in your paper. For investigations
undertaken on human subjects, state in the Methods section
the manner in which the informed consent was obtained from
the study participants (i.e, oral or written), where there
is an unavoidable risk of breach of privacy- e.g., in a clinical
photograph or in case details- the patient’s written
consent or that of the next of kin, to publication must be
obtained. We will ask you to send a signed consent form before
publication. Consent must be obtained for all Case Reports
and Clinical Pictures.
The authors are advised to present and discuss their observations
in brief. The manuscript style must be uniform throughout
the text and 10 pt Times New Roman fonts should be used. The
full term for an abbreviation should precede its first appearance
in the text unless it is a standard unit of measurement. The
reference numbers should be given in square brackets in the
text. Italics should be used for Binomial names of organisms
(Genus and Species), for emphasis and for unfamiliar words
or phrases. Non-assimilated words from Latin or other languages
should also be italicized e.g. in vivo, in vitro, per
se, et al. etc.
Greek Symbols and Special Characters: Greek
symbols and special characters often undergo formatting changes
and get corrupted or lost during preparation of manuscript
for publication. To ensure that all special characters used
are embedded in the text, these special characters should
be inserted as a symbol but should not be a result of any
format styling (Symbol font face) otherwise they
will be lost during conversion to PDF/XML2.
Authors are encouraged to consult reporting guidelines. These
guidelines provide a set of recommendations comprising a list
of items relevant to their specific research design. All kinds
of measurements should be reported only in International System
of Units (SI). Chemical equations, chemical names, mathematical
usage, unit of measurements, chemical and physical quantity
& units must conform to SI and Chemical Abstracts or IUPAC.
LIST OF ABBREVIATIONS: If abbreviations are
used in the text either they should be defined in the text
where first used, or a list of abbreviations can be provided.
CONFLICT OF INTEREST: Financial contributions
to the work being reported should be clearly acknowledged,
as should any potential conflict of interest.
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS: Please acknowledge anyone
(individual/company/institution) who has contributed to the
study by making substantial contributions to conception, design,
acquisition of data, or analysis and interpretation of data,
or who was involved in drafting the manuscript or revising
it critically for important intellectual content. Please list
the source(s) of funding for the study, for each author, and
for the manuscript preparation in the acknowledgements section.
This journal complies with the International Committee of
Medical Journal Editors' Uniform Requirements for Manuscripts
Submitted to Biomedical Journals http://www.icmje.org
and the FDA's Good Reprint Practices for the Distribution
of Medical Journal Articles and Medical or Scientific Reference
Publications on Unapproved New Uses of Approved Drugs and
Approved or Cleared Medical Devices http://www.fda.gov/oc/op/goodreprint.html
REFERENCES: References must be listed in
the numerical system (Vancouver). All references should be
numbered sequentially [in square brackets] in the text and
listed in the same numerical order in the reference section.
The reference numbers must be finalized and the bibliography
must be fully formatted before submission.
See below few examples of references listed in the correct
Vancouver style:
Typical Paper Reference:
[1] Newcomer KL, Laskowski ER, Idank DM, et al. Corticosteroid
injection in early treatment of lateral epicondylitis. Clin
J Sport Med 2001; 11: 214–222.
Typical Chapter Reference:
[2] Claessens AL. Elite female gymnasts: a kinanthropometric
over-view. In: Johnston FE, Eveleth P, Zemel B, Eds. Human
Growth in Context. London: Smith-Gordon and Co; 1999:273–280.
Book Reference:
[3] Stewart JD, Ed. Focal Peripheral Neuropathies. 3rd ed.
Philadelphia, PA: Lippincott Williams & Wilkins; 2000.
Edited Book:
[4] Brown AM, Stubbs DW, Eds. Medical physiology. New York:
Wiley; 1983.
Conference Proceedings:
[5] Anderson JC. Current status of chorion villus biopsy.
In: Tudenhope D, Chenoweth J, Eds. Proceedings of the 4th
Congress of the Australian Perinatal Society; 1986: Brisbane,
Queensland: Australian Perinatal Society; 1987; pp. 190-6.
Journal Article on the Internet:
[6] Olsen O, Myklebust G, Engebretsen L, Bahr R. Exercises
to prevent lower limb injuries in youth sports: cluster randomised
controlled trial. BMJ [serial on the Internet]. 2005 Feb;
[cited 2005 February 26]; 330: [about 10 screens]. Available
from: http://www.bmj.com/cgi/content/full/330/7489/449
Patent:
[7] Pagedas AC, inventor; Ancel Surgical R&D Inc., assignee.
Flexible endoscopic grasping and cutting device and positioning
tool assembly. United States patent US 20020103498. 2002 Aug.
E-citations:
[8] Citations for articles/material published exclusively
online or in open access (free-to-view), must contain the
exact Web addresses (URLs) at the end of the reference(s),
except those posted on an author’s Web site unless editorially
essential, e.g. ‘Reference: Available from: URL’.
Some important points to remember:
*References must be complete and accurate.
*Online citations should include the date of access.
*Journal titles should conform to the present ACM Guide to
Computing Literature/Chemical Abstracts etc. abbreviations.
*If the number of authors exceeds six then et al.
will be used after three names (the term “et al.”
should be in italics).
*Take special care of the punctuation convention as described
in the above-mentioned examples.
* Avoid using superscript in the in-text citations and reference
section.
*Abstracts, unpublished data and personal communications (which
can only be included if prior permission has been obtained)
should not be given in the reference section but they may
be mentioned in the text and details provided as footnotes.
*The authors are encouraged to use a recent version of EndNote
(version 5 and above) or Reference Manager (version 10) when
formatting their reference list, as this allows references
to be automatically extracted.
APPENDICES: In case there is a need to present
lengthy, but essential methodological details, use appendices,
which can be a part of the article. An appendix must not exceed
three pages (Times New Roman, 12 point fonts, 900 max. words
per page).The information should be provided in a condensed
form, ruling out the need of full sentences. A single appendix
should be titled APPENDIX, while more than one can be titled
APPENDIX A, APPENDIX B, and so on.
FIGURES/ ILLUSTRATIONS: The authors should
provide the illustrations as separate files, as well as embedded
in the text file, numbered consecutively in the order of their
appearance. Each figure should include a single illustration.
No charges will be levied on the use of color figures except
in the reprints. Each figure should be closely cropped to
minimize the amount of white space surrounding the illustration.
If a figure consists of separate parts, it is important that
a single composite illustration file be submitted, containing
all parts of the figure.
Photographs should be provided with a scale bar if appropriate,
as well as high-resolution component files.
Scaling/Resolution:
For Line Art image type, which is generally an image based
on lines and text and does not contain tonal or shaded areas,
the preferred file format is TIFF or EPS, with colour mode
being Monochrome 1-bit or RGB, in a resolution of 900-1200
dpi.
For Halftone image type, which is generally a continuous tone photograph and contains no text, the preferred file format is TIFF, with colour mode being or RGB or Grayscale, with a minimum resolution of 300 dpi.
For Combination image type, which is generally an image
containing halftone in addition to text or line art elements,
the preferred file format is TIFF, with colour mode being
or RGB or Grayscale, in a resolution of 500-900 dpi.
Formats:
For illustrations, the following file formats are acceptable:
• Illustrator
• EPS (preferred format for diagrams)
• PDF (also especially suitable for
diagrams)
• PNG (preferred format for photos
or images)
• Microsoft Word (version 5 and above;
figures must be a single page)
• PowerPoint (figures must be a single
page)
• TIFF
• JPEG (conversion should be done using
the original file)
• BMP
• CDX (ChemDraw)
• TGF (ISISDraw)
Bentham OPEN does not process figures submitted
in GIF format.
If the large size of TIFF or EPS figures acts as an obstacle
to online submission, authors may find that conversion to
JPEG format before submission results in significantly reduced
file size and upload time, while retaining acceptable quality.
JPEG is a 'lossy' format, however in order to maintain acceptable
image quality, it is recommended that JPEG files are saved
at High or Maximum quality.
Files should not be compressed with tools such as Zipit or
Stuffit prior to submission as these tools will in any case
produce negligible file-size savings for JPEGs and TIFFs,
which are already compressed.
Please do not:
1. Supply embedded graphics in your word processor (spreadsheet,
presentation) document;
2. Supply files that are optimized for screen use (like GIF,
BMP, PICT, WPG); the resolution is too low;
3. Supply files that are too low in resolution;
4. Submit graphics that are disproportionately large for the
content.
Image Conversion Tools:
There are many software packages, many of them freeware or
shareware, capable of converting to and from different graphics
formats, including PNG.
Good general tools for image conversion include GraphicConverter
on the Macintosh, PaintShop Pro, for Windows, and ImageMagick,
which is available on Macintosh, Windows and UNIX platforms.
Note that bitmap images (e.g. screenshots) should not be converted
to EPS, since this will result in a much larger file size
than the equivalent JPEG, TIFF, PNG or BMP, with no increase
in quality. EPS should only be used for images produced by
vector-drawing applications such as Adobe Illustrator or CorelDraw.
Most vector-drawing applications can be saved in, or exported
as, EPS format. In case the images have been originally prepared
in an Office application, such as Word or PowerPoint, then
the original Office files should be directly uploaded to the
site, instead of being converted to JPEG or another format
that may be of low quality.
Chemical Structures: Chemical structures
MUST be prepared according to the guidelines below.
Structures should be prepared in ChemDraw and provided as
separate file, submitted both on disk and in printed formats.
Structure Drawing Preferences:
[As according to the ACS style sheet]
Drawing Settings:
Chain angle 120°
Bond spacing 18% of width
Fixed length 14.4 pt (0.500cm,
0.2in)
Bold width 2.0
pt (0.071cm, 0.0278in)
Line width 0.6
pt (0.021cm, 0.0084in)
Margin width 1.6 pt (0.096cm)
Hash spacing 2.5 pt (0.088cm, 0.0347in)
Text settings:
Font Times
New Roman
Size 8
pt
Under the Preference Choose:
Units points
Tolerances 3
pixels
Under Page Setup Use:
Paper US
letter
Scale 100%
TABLES:
*Data Tables should be submitted in Microsoft Word table format.
*Each table should include a title/caption being explanatory
in itself with respect to the details discussed in the table.
Detailed legends may then follow.
*Table number in bold font i.e. Table 1,
should follow a title. The title should be in small case with
the first letter in caps. A full stop should be placed at
the end of the title.
*Tables should be embedded in the text exactly according to
their appropriate placement in the submitted manuscript.
*Columns and rows of data should be made visibly distinct
by ensuring that the borders of each cell are displayed as
black lines.
*Tables should be numbered in Arabic numerals sequentially
in order of their citation in the body of the text.
*If a reference is cited in both the table and text, please
insert a lettered footnote in the table to refer to the numbered
reference in the text.
*Tabular data provided as additional files can be submitted
as an Excel spreadsheet.
SUPPORTIVE/SUPPLEMENTARY MATERIAL:
We do encourage to append supportive material, for example
a PowerPoint file containing a talk about the study, a PowerPoint
file containing additional screenshots, a Word, RTF, or PDF
document showing the original instrument(s) used, a video,
or the original data (SAS/SPSS files, Excel files, Access
Db files etc.) provided it is inevitable or endorsed by the
journal's Editor.
Supportive/Supplementary material intended for publication
must be numbered and referred to in the manuscript but should
not be a part of the submitted paper. In-text citations as
well as a section with the heading "Supportive/Supplementary
Material" before the "References" section should
be provided. Here, list all Supportive/Supplementary Material
and include a brief caption line for each file describing
its contents.
Any additional files will be linked into the final published
article in the form supplied by the author, but will not be
displayed within the paper. They will be made available in
exactly the same form as originally provided only on our Web
site. Please also make sure that each additional file is a
single table, figure or movie (please do not upload linked
worksheets or PDF files larger than one sheet). Supportive/
Supplementary material must be provided in a single zipped
file not larger than 4 MB.
Authors must clearly indicate if these files are not for publication
but meant for the reviewers'/editors' perusal only.
PERMISSION FOR REPRODUCTION: Published/reproduced
material should not be included unless you have obtained written
permission from the copyright holder, which should be forwarded
to the Editorial Office in case of acceptance of your article
for publication.
For obtaining permission for reproducing any material published
in an article by Bentham Science Publishers, please fill in
the request FORM
and send to tosmj@benthamopen.org
for consideration.
AUTHORS AND INSTITUTIONAL AFFILIATIONS:
The author will be required to provide their full names, the
institutional affiliations and the location, with an asterisk
in front of the name of the principal/corresponding author.
The corresponding author(s) should be designated and their
complete address, business telephone and fax numbers and e-mail
address must be stated to receive correspondence and galley
proofs.
REVIEWING AND PROMPTNESS OF PUBLICATION:
All manuscripts submitted for publication will be immediately subjected to peer-reviewing, usually in consultation with the members of the Editorial Advisory Board and a number of external referees. Authors may, however, provide in their Covering Letter the contact details (including e-mail addresses) of four potential peer reviewers for their paper. Any peer reviewers suggested should not have recently published with any of the authors of the submitted manuscript and should not be members of the same research institution.
All peer-reviewing will be conducted via the Internet to facilitate rapid reviewing of the submitted manuscripts. Every possible effort will be made to assess the manuscripts quickly with the decision being conveyed to the authors in due course. Papers which are delayed by authors in revision for more than 30 days will have to be re-submitted as a new submission.
LANGUAGE AND EDITING:
Manuscripts must be written in good English in a clear and
correct style. In order to maintain uniformity throughout
the text, the manuscript should be written in either American
or British English. Submitted manuscripts will not be edited
for style or language, and reviewers may advise rejection
of a manuscript if it is compromised by grammatical errors.
Non-native speakers of English may choose to make use of a
copyediting and language editing service such as that provided
by Bentham
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to proofread the PDF versions of their manuscripts before
submission. To avoid delays in publication, proofs should
be checked immediately for typographical errors and returned
within 48 hours. Major changes are not acceptable
at the proof stage. If unable to send corrections within 48
hours due to some reason, the author(s) must at least
send an acknowledgement on receiving the galley proofs or
the article will be published exactly as received and the
publishers will not be responsible for any error occurring
in the manuscript in this regard.
The corresponding author will be solely responsible for ensuring
that the revised version of the manuscript incorporating all
the submitted corrections receives the approval of all the
authors of the manuscript.
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Plagiarism is strictly forbidden, and by submitting the article
for publication the authors agree that the publishers have
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if plagiarism or fabricated information is discovered. Once
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Research Articles: The publication fee for
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Mini-Review Articles: The publication fee
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Review Articles: The publication fee for
each published Review article is US $900.
Book Review: The open access fee for a published
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