Submissions

Author Guidelines

Materiales para la Historia del Deporte brings together studies and research related to the origins and evolution of physical activities, as well as the social sciences and humanities linked to sport in general, with the primary aim of promoting its diffusion in the scientific community.

INSTRUCTION FOR SUBMITTING ARTICLES TO Materiales para la Historia del Deporte

1. General information

Materiales admits the publication of:

• Original papers
• Book reviews

Manuscripts must be originals, not admitting those who have been published in whole or in part, as well as those that are in the process of revision or publication in another journal

2. Editorial Board

All manuscripts sent to Materiales will be submitted to review according to the instruction for authors’ requirements, relevance and originality. Papers will be reviewed by double blind review for possible publication by, at least, two external reviewers from the Scientific Committee.

It is encouraged that the manuscript will follow the scientific structure for papers: 1) Introduction, where the fundaments and aims are established clearly; 2) description of sources, methods, materials and equipment used for its fulfilment; 3) results and discussion clearly and accurately presented; and 4) final conclusions.  Appendix can be added when necessary.

3. Reviewers

The authors have the possibility to suggest three possible reviewers through the metadata, indicating their institutional affiliationand their e-mail address. In no case may reviewers be suggested from the same institution as one of the authors of the manuscript. The reviewers selected will be experts in the contents and methodologies related to the topic of the text.

The reviewers, on a confidential and anonymous basis, will complete the review protocol provided for this purpose and provide a report judging the eligibility of the manuscript.

In cases where the reports are not positive, a summary of these will be provided to the author(s), so that they can incorporate the suggested changes to the manuscript within a maximum of 15 days. If the new submission is delayed, the manuscript will be archived and the procedure will be concluded.

Once the new version is received, the manuscript will be submitted to a new revision to verify the incorporation of the proposed changes. The author(s) can send to the editor the comments they consider relevant. This revision will be carried out by the Editorial Board and/or the external evaluators. The process will be repeated as many times as deemed appropriate.

Manuscripts finally accepted will be scheduled for publication at the discretion of the editor. Authors should actively participate in the pre-publication review of galley proofs, providing as much information and commentary as required.

4. Languages

Materiales accepts manuscripts in Spanish, Portuguese, English, French and Italian.

5. Layout

Papers will be submitted in a Word document with the following characteristics:

Text:

• Baskerville font, size 12.
• 1.1 line spacing.
• The beginning of each paragraph with an indentation of 0.5 cm.
• Text with full justification. 
• The text should be written without word breaks, tabs or page breaks.
• Footnote: size 9, line spacing 1.

Quotations of more than 5 lines:

• Baskerville font, size 10.
• Line spacing 1.
• Indentation of the entire quotation of 0.1 cm.
• No quotation marks. 
• Text with full justification.

The manuscripts must follow this structure:

Title of the article in Spanish, size 15.
Title in English, size 12.

Abstract (in Spanish), size 10.
Abstract (in English), size 10.
Keywords (in Spanish), size 10.
Keywords (in English), size 10.

Epigraphs:

The epigraphs of the article will be in bold-cusive and without numbering, size 12.

First heading size 12.

Second heading size 12.

Third heading size 12.

Acknowledgements (if any)
Bibliographical references (according to Chicago Manual of Style, 17th ed.)

6. Figures and tables 

They should be presented within the text. They should be numbered and have a concise heading. Tables and figures should be related with Arabic numerals with different sequence: Table 1 or Figure 1. The information arranged in rows and columns will be considered table, and everything else figure.

Images, figures, tables, etc., should be submitted with sufficient quality to guarantee their publication, and the place corresponding to each of them should be indicated in the text.

• The format of the explanatory text should be Baskerville italics 9.

In the case of using copyrighted material, authors must obtain authorization from the intellectual owner of the material used and attach it.

7. Submission process

Except in specific cases, original manuscripts will not exceed 10,000 words (including abstract, notes and references) and must be submitted in MS Word for Windows® file through the online platform enabled for this purpose on the website of the journal:

http://polired.upm.es/index.php/materiales_historia_deporte

It is necessary to fully identify the manuscript in metadata requested during the registration process when identified as author and starts the process of sending the manuscript. Any kind of author identification must be avoided, to both a direct identification and to the file properties.

The document must contain:

• Title in Spanish and English
• Abstract in Spanish and English  (between 150 and 300 words)
• 3- 5 keywords in Spanish and English

Texts submitted in Portuguese, French or Italian should also include: title, abstract and keywords in the language of the text.

The sources consulted should be included in author-date form or in footnotes and in the final bibliography following the indications of the Chicago Manual of Style (17th ed.). Footnotes should be as concise as possible, avoiding including in them all information that can be explained in the text itself.

Manuscripts submitted to Materials that do not conform to the publication guidelines described here will be rejected.

The editors of Materials do not assume any responsibility for the opinions expressed in the papers that are published, being the sole responsibility of their authors.

8. Book reviews

Book reviews should meet the following guidelines: Authors surname, initials. (Date). Book’s title. Publication place: Editorial, number of pages.

The review will follow the same layout as original manuscripts, and they will not exceed 500 and 1,000 words.). Usually reviews from books published in the same or previous year of the journal issue will be accepted.

9. Manuscript writing

Please do not impute volition to inanimate objects (for example, “this paper will analyze”, or “this article will analyse”, or any other inanimate object will engage in wilful behaviour).  State your arguments boldly and directly. Follow the timeless advice of E.B. White and William Strunk in The Elements of Style: “Avoid tame, colorless, hesitating, noncommittal language”.

Under almost all circumstances, do not use the familiar first-person (‘I’, ‘we’, or ‘us’).  For example, “Sport history remains a vibrant domain” is vastly preferable to “We argue that sport history remains a vibrant domain”, or worse, “This paper argues that sport history remains a vibrant domain”.

In addition, please note the following:

Dates and times

• 1880s, not 1880’s.
• twentieth century, not 20th century; hyphenate if used as an adjective, e.g., twentieth-century sport
• September 23, 1915, not 23 September 1915.
• 7.30am not 7.30 am.

Quotation marks (inverted commas):

• Use double inverted commas in the text, with single inverted commas within double inverted commas when a quotation is used within a quotation.

Latin terms

• et al. – without italics, followed by a full stop, meaning “and others” to signify more than three authors (for example, Smith et al.).
• Ibid. – without italics, followed by a full stop, and a comma, if a page number is indicated (for example, Ibid., 16).
• [sic] – with italics, inside a square bracket, to draw attention to an error in quoted material.

Numbers

• One to nine (in words), 10 to 1,000, and beyond (in numerals).

Ellipsis

• Insert a space before and after the three dots (“it was possible … this was”).  There should be no punctuation before or after the ellipses.

10. Acknowledgements and/or funding

The author must indicate whether he/she has had a source of funding for the research that has resulted in the article. In particular, the funding agencies and the codes of the projects in the framework of which the research was carried out must be indicated. This information will be referenced in the published version of the article and in the journal metadata.

11. References

Materiales follows the Chicago Manual of Style (17th ed.). This style gives the possibility of presenting bibliographic information in two ways:

1. Footnotes and final bibliography. 
2. Author-date style.

Authors should choose only one of these styles, without being able to combine both. Please note the following guidelines concerning both styles:

• The final bibliography will be in alphabetical order and will have a French indentation of 1 cm.
• In the final bibliography the first author appears with: Last name(s), First name and the following authors appear with First name Last name(s).
• Both in the text and in the final bibliography, the page numbers use only the changed part of the second number (correct: 26-7, 155-6, 347-58, incorrect: 26-27, 155-156, 347-358).
• The number of the journal should be entered: no.
• Whenever possible, it is necessary to indicate the DOI. 
• In articles with more than three authors, only the first author should be cited followed by 'et al. (in the final bibliography the first seven authors will be referenced followed by 'et al.) 

For a complete information on this style, consult the Chicago Manual of Style (17th ed.) or visit the web site: http://www.chicagomanualofstyle.org/tools_citationguide.html

The most common examples are detailed in this document (click here to download PDF).