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Author Guidelines

Authorship Guidelines
This journal adheres to the criteria for authorship as outlined by the International Committee of Medical Journal Editors*:

Each author should have participated sufficiently in the work to take public responsibility for the content. Authorship credit should be based only on substantial contributions to:

a. Conception and design, or analysis and interpretation of data; and
b. Drafting the article or revising it critically for important intellectual content; and
c. Final approval of the version to be published.

Conditions a, b, and c must all be met. Individuals who do not meet the above criteria may be listed in the acknowledgments section of the manuscript.
*Uniform requirements for manuscripts submitted to biomedical journals. New England Journal of Medicine, 1991, 324, 424–428.

Open Access

This is an open access journal, which means that all content is freely available without charge to the use or his/her institution. Users are allowed to read, download, copy, distribute, print, search, or link to the full texts of the articles, or use them for any other lawful purpose, without asking prior permission from the publisher or the author. This is in accordance with the BOAI definition of open access. All articles will be made available under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International (CC-BY-NC-ND) License.

Manuscript Guidelines
The Journal of Intercollegiate Sport (JIS) welcomes a broad range of scholarly submissions related to sport in the context of higher education. Contributions may be specifically about sport in college and university settings or about broader psychological, social, or philosophical factors that impact sport in higher education. Articles from the sciences, social sciences, humanities, and professional fields will be accepted. Submissions that are cross-disciplinary in nature and have practical applications are encouraged.

Articles should be written for an educated, lay readership and must be nontechnical in nature. Accordingly, submissions should address topics of general interest and avoid the idiosyncratic issues and terminology of academic specializations.

Standard canons of good research will be honored in the review process. Depending on the type of research being conducted, submissions must reflect good scientific procedure, the best practices of qualitative methodologies, and/or sustained and effective argumentation. Submissions that are editorial or polemical in nature are not consistent with the mission of the journal. On the other hand, well-researched and argued essays that either challenge or support the status quo in intercollegiate sports are welcome.

Manuscripts should conform to the reference, endnote, and bibliographical style according to the Publication Manual of the American Psychological Association (APA), 7th Edition. Manuscripts employing alternative formats will be accepted for review, although stylistic revision will be required before publication. Manuscript length should range from 5,000 - 10,000 words, including references (excluding tables, and figures).

Please note that a double-anonymous peer review process is used to evaluate manuscripts. As such, any clues to the author’s identity should be eliminated from the manuscript. The first page of the manuscript must not include author names or affiliations, but it should include the title of the paper and the date of submission.   When submitting, please upload a title page (separate from manuscript) that includes all author information.

All art must be professionally prepared, with clean, crisp lines, and be camera-ready; freehand or typewritten lettering will not be accepted. If photos are used, they should be black and white, clear, and show good contrast. Each figure and photo must be properly identified. In graphs, use black and white only, no shading or color. Digital images should be 300 dpi at full size for photos and 600 dpi for line art. Format tables in the table function of your word-processing program rather than aligning columns in text with tabs and spaces or using text boxes.

Because JIS uses a blind review process, the author’s name and institutional affiliation should appear only on the cover page, which should be uploaded as a file separate from the manuscript, and care should be taken to avoid self-identification in the text or notes. All submissions will be reviewed by a minimum of two referees. The editor reserves the right to return manuscripts without full review if any submission does not comply with basic editorial and scholarly standards of JIS.

Address all editorial inquiries to the editor:  https://journals.ku.edu/jis/about/contact

Submission Preparation Checklist

All submissions must meet the following requirements.

  • The submission has not been previously published, nor is it before another journal for consideration.
  • Your submission file should be in Microsoft Word or PDF file format.
    • If you submit a Microsoft Word document for your manuscript, title page, or other materials, make sure you remove any identifiable information from the properties section of your document. If you aren't sure how to do this, please check out this link.
  • Where available, DOIs for the references should be provided.
  • The text should follow APA format:
    • Double-spaced
    • Use a consistent 12-point font
    • All illustrations, figures, and tables are placed within the text at the appropriate points, rather than at the end.
    • APA formatting is required throughout the manuscript. Make sure to confirm your title page, formatting, in-text citations, references, and tables/figures comply with APA 7th edition.
  • For all submissions except ¨Practitioner Contributions, manuscript length should range from 5,000 - 10,000 words, including references (excluding tables, and figures). Practitioner Contributions should range from 5,000 - 8,000 words, including references (excluding tables, and figures). 
  • The text adheres to the stylistic and bibliographic requirements outlined in the Author Guidelines.
  • If the submission is accepted for publication, all authors agree to the terms in the Journal of Intercollegiate Sport publication agreement.
  • Title page that includes all author information needs to be uploaded as a separate file (Word or PDF).

Practitioner Contributions

In addition to contributing to theorical advancements related to collegiate sport, a goal of the Journal of Intercollegiate Sport is to provide practical insights to our understanding of intercollegiate athletics and efforts to effect change or reform. As such, we – as the journal’s editorial leadership – are continually looking for avenues to diversify the voices and work published by the journal. Working closely with a group of college sport practitioners, we have created a new submission option to help aid in the dissemination of research with greater practical applications.

In recognition of the constantly evolving field of collegiate athletics and in appreciation of the experiences of collegiate sport practitioners, the Journal of Intercollegiate Sport is excited to announce our new Practitioner Contributionssubmission option. The goal of Practitioner Contributions submissions is to bridge the gap between traditional academic research – which is typically focused on theoretical advancement – and real-world applications.

Practitioner Contributions submissions can include conceptual pieces, case studies, and/or empirical research that provides strong managerial implications and is written in a practitioner-focused manner.

We invite submissions from current and former collegiate sport employees, including coaches, support staff (e.g., certified athletic trainers, strength and conditioning coaches), and administrators, student-athletes, higher education leadership (e.g., university president), organizational leadership (e.g., NCAA, conference administrators), and collaborative teams of practitioners and researchers.

Practitioner Contributions submissions typically have a word count between 5,000-8,000 words and should follow all journal guidelines with respect to format and APA referencing. Practitioner Contributions submissions will undergo the typical double-blind peer review process of other Journal of Intercollegiate Sport submission that includes two peer-reviewers. An effort will be made to include an industry professional (i.e., collegiate sport employee) as one of the peer-reviewers.

Topics for Practitioner Contributions could include (but are not limited to):

  1. Future of Intercollegiate Sport
  2. Name, Image, and Likeness (NIL)
  3. Models for Revenue Sharing
  4. Student-Athlete Development (including leadership education, holistic development, etc.)
  5. Experiences at NCAA Division II and III
  6. Experiences within leagues outside the NCAA (e.g., NAIA, NJCAA)
  7. Employee Experiences

Copyright Notice

1. License.  You retain the copyright for your work.  All articles in the Journal of Intercollegiate Sport are licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International (CC-BY-NC-ND) License. 

You here by grant to us a worldwide, non-exclusive, perpetual, irrevocable, royalty-free, sublicensable license to:

  • Reproduce, distribute and display the edited manuscript in the Journal of Intercollegiate Sport(and other publications prepared by us or on our behalf) in any media now or hereafter known (including without limitation electronic publications such as the Internet, Google Scholar, and social media)

We do not restrict your distribution or use of the manuscript following publication in the Journal of Intercollegiate Sport (in fact, we encourage it!).  However, we have the right to publish the manuscript first on the journal website. Thus, the foregoing licenses are exclusive to us prior to our publication of the manuscript. You confirm that you have disclosed to us all previous or pending public disseminations of the manuscript, including without limitation any publications or acceptances by other journals or disseminations via websites or conference proceedings.

2. Other Confirmations. You confirm that you are the manuscripts sole author(s); you have the right to convey the foregoing licenses; the manuscript does not infringe any third party copyright, publicity/privacy right or other proprietary right; and the manuscript is not defamatory or otherwise unlawful.  You shall defend and indemnify us against all claims based on any alleged breach of your confirmations in this contract.

Compensation: You will receive one (1) free copy (PDF) of the article published online in the Journal of Intercollegiate Sport. You will receive no royalty or other monetary return from the Journal of Intercollegiate Sport for use of the article. You do, however, have our extreme gratitude!

3. Entire Contract.This contract is the sole and exclusive agreement between the parties regarding the manuscript and supersedes all prior conversations and understandings regarding its subject matter.  This contract may be modified or supplemented only by a mutually signed writing.

 

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