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

The Journal of Olympic Studies uses endnotes.  All notes should be numbered consecutively and appear within the text at the end of a sentence, even when referring to a direct quotation, with the full reference appearing in the endnote. Dates within text and in references should be in the form April 10, 1979.

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.

Example of books:

Mark Dyreson, Making the American Team: Sport, Culture, and the Olympic Experience (University of Illinois Press, 1988), 91.

Example of a chapter in an edited book:

Nicholas J. Cull, “The Public Diplomacy of the Modern Olympic Games and China’s Soft Power Strategy,” in Owning the Olympics: Narratives of the New China, ed. Monroe E. Price and Daniel Dayan (The University of Michigan Press, 2008), 117-144.

Example of a journal article:

Michelle M. Sikes, “African Precedents: Southern Africa and Olympic Ultimatums, 1968–1976,” Journal of Olympic Studies 35, no. 2 (2008): 285-301.

Example of dissertation:

Patricia Campbell Warner, “Clothing the American Woman for Sport and Physical Education, 1860 to 1940” (Ph.D. diss., University of Minnesota, 1986), 72.

Example of online newspaper:

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 May 28, 2009]

Archives:

An archive should be referenced as follows: Minutes of Meeting of Conference Directors, June 1, 1922, folder 5, box 84, Amos Alonzo Stagg Papers, University of Chicago Archives, Chicago, Illinois.

Second Citations:

Latin abbreviations, other than Ibid. (for an immediate second reference) should be avoided. A second citation should normally be in abbreviated form: Sikes, “African Precedents,” 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.