Submission Guidelines

General Guidelines

  • Authors should follow the Chicago Manual of Style.
  • Manuscripts must be in English. If this is not the first language of the author, contributions should be checked for grammar and syntax, prior to submission, by a person fluent in academic English. It is not the responsibility of the editorial team to redraft articles into an acceptable form and manuscripts which do not meet the required standard will be returned. American conventions in spelling and punctuation should be used throughout.
  • The author’s name should appear on the cover page only as manuscripts are evaluated anonymously.
  • An abstract of no more than 150 words should be included at the beginning of the article.
  • 3 or 4 “keywords” should be included at the beginning of the article following the abstract.
  • The entire article, including block quotations, endnotes, and figure captions should be double-spaced with at least a one-inch margin on all sides.
    All pages should be numbered consecutively throughout. Manuscripts should not exceed 10,000 words including notes.
  • Authors are responsible for obtaining any copyright permissions.
  • Tables and graphs should be sent as separate files, not as part of the main text, and clear indication given as to their appropriate position within the article.
  • Illustrations are encouraged but not required. At submission stage an indication of suitable material is all that is necessary as precise details will be determined once an article has been accepted for publication.

Style Guide

  • Notes, numbered consecutively, should appear within the text at the end of a sentence, even when referring to a direct quotation, with the full reference located at the end of the article. Notes must not exceed 100 – one way to achieve this is citation by paragraph where appropriate. Endnotes should not be used to provide additional commentary or information.
  • Abbreviations – first mention of organizations should be provided in full, but thereafter should be abbreviated: for example, International Olympic Committee (IOC); National Football League (NFL); American Broadcasting Corporation (ABC). Acronyms, however – for example, NATO, DNA, NASCAR – should not be expanded.
  • Dates within text should be in the form July 12, 1958 but in references should be 12 July 1958.
  • Numbers up to ninety-nine should be spelled out.
  • Authors should follow the Chicago Manual of Style, for example:
    • Wray Vamplew, Pay Up and Play the Game (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1988), 91.
    • Douglas Booth, “Sports Historians: What Do We Do? How Do We Do It?” in Deconstructing Sport History: A Postmodern Analysis, ed. Murray G. Phillips (Albany: State University of New York Press, 2006), 39.
    • Tara Kathleen Kelly, “The Still-Hunter and the Temptation Goats: Reconsidering the Meaning of the Hunt in American Culture, 1880-1914,” Journal of Sport History 35.2 (2008): 285-301.
    • Patricia Campbell Warner, “Clothing the American Woman for Sport and Physical Education, 1860 to 1940” (Ph.D. diss., University of Minnesota, 1986), 72.
    • Sheryl Gay Stolberg and Robert Pear, “Wary Centrists Posing Challenge in Health Care Vote,” New York Times, February 27, 2010, accessed February 28, 2010, http://www.nytimes.com/2010/02/28/us/politics/28health.html
    • A website reference need not be given in full but should include the basic information required for access, together with the date accessed, for example: http://www.sportsbusinessjournal.com/article/60969 [accessed 28 May 2009]
    • An archive should be referenced as follows: Minutes of Meeting of Conference Directors, 1 June 1922, folder 5, box 84, Amos Alonzo Stagg Papers, University of Chicago Archives, Chicago, Illinois.
    • Latin abbreviations, other than Ibid. (for an immediate second reference) should be avoided.
    • A second citation should normally be in the form: Kelly, “The Still-Hunter,” 289.

Illustrations

It is the responsibility of the author to obtain the appropriate permission for the use of any copyrighted materials. If you do include illustrations, keep
in mind that photos need to be scanned in greyscale at a minimum of 300 dpi for a 5×7 or 4×6; line art has to be a minimum
of 1200 dpi; otherwise, they may not be able to be used.

Drafts of the illustrations may be submitted with the article during the review process but final versions, including an indication
that permission has been obtained, must be submitted with the final version of the article.