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Author Guidelines

This section will provide guidelines for you to submit a manuscript to SLJSEM.

Submissions should be sent to the editor via email sljsem@gmail.com

Type of articles accepted

• Original articles
• Review articles: systematic reviews and narrative reviews
• Editorials and letters to the editor
• Case Reports
• Expert opinions.

Article publishing charges
FREE

Review process

• After submission of the manuscript, the editorial review will take place.
• The Editor /editorial board will evaluate the manuscript for scope, quality, originality, interest for the readership, etc. If it does not meet the criteria will be rejected and if accepted will then be sent out for external peer review.
• The manuscript will be handled by the editor or an assigned member of the editorial board.
• When two external reviews have been received the Editor(s) considering the review comments will make an initial decision to accept, reject, or request a revision.
• If the decision is for revision, the author will be given sufficient time to review comments, revise and resubmit the manuscript.
• The revised manuscript will be re-evaluated by the original handling editor, who will make a decision or send the manuscript for further peer review prior to making a decision.

Submission guidelines

Please review the below specifications when preparing your manuscript.

Manuscript should contain text in sequence of title, authors and their affiliations, abstract, key words, main text part, acknowledgments, references, figure/ table captions list and supplement/supporting information if any. Manuscripts should be as succinct as possible. Provide a cover letter addressed to the editor SLJSEM with the submission.

Title: Provide a Title which is concise and describe the main body of text.

Authors and their affiliations: Please provide names of authors, their affiliations and indicate the corresponding author and contact information (email address and contact phone number).

Abstract: Limit to 250 words and structured including the headings Objectives, Methods, Results and Conclusion. The format may vary according to the type of the manuscript.

Body of the article/ Main text
Main body/text of the paper should follow the format:

• Introduction
• Methods
• Results /Case report
• Discussion

Style and Format

• Length and word count: Case reports limited to 1500 words and to other manuscripts up to 3500 words.
• Manuscript files can be in the following formats: DOC, DOCX.
• Font type: Times New Roman Size: 12 Space: Double line spaced.
• Limit manuscript sections and sub-sections to 3 heading levels.
• Define abbreviations upon first appearance in the text.
• Tables/illustrations: Up to 3 tables and/or figures. The figures/tables /supporting material should not be included in the main text but sent as separate files.
• Use correct and established nomenclature wherever possible: Units of measurement- SI units, Drugs- Non-Proprietary Name.

Acknowledgments
Those who contributed to the work but do not meet the authorship criteria can be listed in the Acknowledgments with a description of the contribution.

Reference method
SLJSEM uses “Vancouver” reference style outlined by the International Committee of Medical Journal Editors (ICMJE). A reference management tool, EndNote, offers a current style file that can assist you with the formatting of your references. e.g.

Racinais S, Alonso JM, Coutts AJ, Flouris AD, Girard O, González-Alonso J, et al. Consensus recommendations on training and competing in the heat. British Journal of Sports Medicine. 2015; 49(18): 1164.

Ethical approval
Please provide the ethical approval letter for submissions related to research.

Cover letter
Please provide a cover letter stating the importance of your manuscript. Please be kind enough to include declaration of no conflicts of interest by the authors “Authors declare no conflicts of interest”. Include the details of the corresponding author.

Contact
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Submission Preparation Checklist

As part of the submission process, authors are required to check off their submission's compliance with all of the following items, and submissions may be returned to authors that do not adhere to these guidelines.

1. The submission has not been previously published, in part or in whole, nor is it before another journal for consideration (or an explanation has been provided in Comments to the Editor).
2. All third-party-owned materials used have been identified with appropriate credit lines, and permission has been obtained from the copyright holder for all formats of the journal. Authors acknowledge their responsibility to gain all permissions prior to submission.
3. All authors qualify as authors, as defined in the authorship guidelines, and have given permission to be listed on the submitted paper.
4. The text adheres to the stylistic and bibliographic requirements outlined in the Author Guidelines. Every effort has been made to ensure that the submission is ready for peer review according to the journal's review policy (following the instructions to ensure blind peer review).
5. Tables are all cited in the main text and are included within the text document.
6. Figures are all cited in the main text and are uploaded as supplementary files. Figures/images have a resolution of at least 150dpi (300dpi or above preferred). The files are in one of the following formats: JPG, TIFF, GIF, PNG, EPS (to maximise quality, the original source file is preferred).
7. All patients included within case reports or other article types in which an individual or a group of individuals can be identified have signed informed consent forms, or had had their legal guardian do so, giving permission to publish the submitted content under a CC-BY licence.
8. Research has been approved by an appropriate ethics committee, with the name of the committee and reference number of approval included within the submitted file. Otherwise, a statement that ethics approval was not required has been added to the file.
9. The corresponding author is submitting an ORCID identifier in their author data and co-authors have been recommended to also provide an ORCID.

Copyright Notice

Copyright on any article published in the Sri Lankan Journal of Sports and Exercise Medicine (SLJSEM) is retained by the author(s).

The authors grant the Sri Lanka Sports Medicine Association a license to publish the article and to identify itself as the original publisher.

From December 2018, all articles in Sri Lankan Journal of Sport and Exercise Medicine (SLJSEM) are licensed under the terms of a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License which permits unrestricted use, distribution and reproduction in any medium provided the original author and source are credited.

Authors are permitted and encouraged to post their work online (e.g., in institutional repositories or on their website) prior to and during the submission process, as it can lead to productive exchanges, as well as earlier and greater citation of published work (See The Effect of Open Access).

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