Manuscript Submission Guidelines:
All manuscripts must be submitted on-line at http://www.aspam.ankara.edu.tr/PASE following the instructions below. Manuscripts submitted via e-mail will not be considered for publication.
1. A cover letter must accompany the manuscript and state the following: ''This manuscript is original and not previously published in any form including on preprint servers, nor is it being considered elsewhere until a decision is made as to its acceptability by the PASE Editorial Review Board.'' Please include the corresponding author's full contact information, including address, email, and phone number. The corresponding author assumes full ownership for all communication related to the manuscript with the journal office.
2. All authors must respond to the automated e-mail and complete the copyright transfer form during the submission process. Manuscript acceptability will not be determined until all forms have been completed. Corresponding authors are strongly encouraged to supervise the completion of the form from all co-authors.
3. All authors should be actively involved in the publication, be able to defend the paper and its findings, take full responsibility for all of its content, and should have signed off on the final version that is submitted. All authors must have made significant contributions to manuscript to justify authorship and individual author contributions may be disclosed in the Acknowledgments section. The order of authorship must be agreed upon by all authors prior to initial submission to PASE.
4. The ASPAM and the Editorial Board of the PASE have endorsed the American College of Sports Medicine’s policies with regards to animal and human experimentation. Their guidelines can be found online at http://www.editorialmanager.com/msse/. Please read these policies carefully. Each manuscript must show that they have had Institutional Board approval for their research and appropriate consent has been obtained pursuant to law. All manuscripts must have this clearly stated in the methods section of the paper or the manuscript will not be considered for publication. Exempt studies involving human subjects (i.e. retrospective data analysis, analysis of publically available data, educational research, analysis of surveys and interviews) must include a statement of Institutional Review Board approval per journal policy.
5. All manuscripts must be double-spaced with an additional space between paragraphs. The paper should include a minimum of 1-inch margins and page numbers in the upper right corner next to the running head. Authors must use terminology based upon the International System of Units (SI). A full list of SI units can be accessed online at http://physics.nist.gov/.
6. The PASE endorses the same policies as the American College of Sports Medicine in that the language is English for the publication. ‘‘Authors who speak English as a second language are encouraged to seek the assistance of a colleague experienced in writing for English language journals. Authors are encouraged to use nonsexist language as defined in the American Psychologist 30:682- 684, 1975, and to be sensitive to the semantic description of persons with chronic diseases and disabilities, as outlined in an editorial in Medicine & Science in Sports & Exercise_, 23(11), 1991. As a general rule, only standardized abbreviations and symbols should be used. If unfamiliar abbreviations are employed, they should be defined when they first appear in the text. Authors should follow Webster’s Tenth Collegiate Dictionary for spelling, compounding, and division of words. Trademark names should be capitalized and the spelling verified. Chemical or generic names should precede the trade name or abbreviation of a drug the first time it is used in the text.’’
7. There are no word limitations to original studies and reviews but authors are instructed to be concise and accurate in their presentation and length will be evaluated by the Editor and reviewers for appropriateness.
8. Scientific misconduct (i.e. data fabrication, falsification, deceptive image manipulation, plagiarism, ethics violations, undisclosed conflicts of interest, duplicate publication, and human/animal research violations) will not be tolerated. Concerns of alleged scientific misconduct should be brought to the attention of the Editor-in-Chief for review using procedures established by the Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE) (publicationethics.org/resources/flowcharts). Pending review of the claims, consequential actions may include rejection of the submitted manuscript of interest, informing the authors’ institution of the alleged misconduct, retraction of a previously-published paper, and potential debarment of the author(s) from future PASE publication. Additional scientific misconduct details may be found at http://www.icmje.org/. Acknowledgment of honest error, omission, or differences in data interpretation that do not alter the findings of a paper may occur via the Manuscript Clarification process or publication of an Erratum.
Please Note:
Please make sure it is noted under the "Subjects" section in the methods that the study was approved by an Institutional Review Board (IRB) or Ethics Board and that the subjects were informed of the benefits and risks of the investigation prior to signing an institutionally approved informed consent document to participate in the study. Additionally, if anyone who is under the age of 18 years of age is included, it should also be noted that parental or guardian signed consent was obtained. Please give the age range if the mean and SD suggest the subjects may have been under the age of 18 years. Authors are encouraged to include the IRB protocol or approval number.
Make sure you have all your tables and figures attached and noted in the text of paper as well as below a paragraph of where it should be placed.
Very important- Table files must be made in Word not copied into Word.
Manuscript Preparation:
- Title page:
The title page should include the manuscript title, brief running head, laboratory(s) where the research was conducted, authors’ full name(s) spelled out with middle initials, department(s), institution(s), full mailing address of corresponding author including telephone and fax numbers, and email address, and disclosure of funding received for this work from any of the organizations. Regarding authorship, each contributor should have played a role in at least two of the following areas: research concept and study design, literature review, data collection, data analysis and interpretation, statistical analyses, writing of the manuscript, or reviewing/editing a draft of the manuscript.
- Blind title page:
A second title page should be included that contains only the manuscript title. This will be used to send to the reviewers in our double blind process of review. Do not place identifying information in the Acknowledgment portion of the paper or anywhere else in the manuscript.
- Abstract and key words:
On a separate page, the manuscript must have an abstract with a limit of 250 words followed by 3-6 key words not used in the title. The abstract should have sentences (no headings) related to the purpose of the study, brief methods, results, conclusions and practical applications, and should include a statement denoting the level of significance set for the study (i.e. ρ ≤ 0.05).
- Text:
The text must contain the following sections with titles in ALL CAPS (i.e. Introduction, Methods, Findings, Discussion, Conclusions, Acknowledgments, and References) in this exact order:
A. Introduction. This section is a careful development of the hypotheses of the study leading to the clear purpose of the investigation. It should include the practical question that forms the basis of the study and how it may influence strength and conditioning practices. In most cases use no subheadings in this section and try to limit it to 4-6 concisely written paragraphs. The subject matter does not have to be exhaustively reviewed in this section.
B. Methods. Within the methods section, the following subheadings are required in the following order: ''Study design,'' where the author(s) show how their study design will be able to test the hypotheses developed in the introduction and give some basic rationales for the choices made for the independent and dependent variables used in the study; ''Subjects,'' where the authors include the Institutional Review Board or Ethics Committee approval of their project and appropriate informed consent has been gained. Eligibility criteria for subject selection should be included in the manuscript. Authors should include relative descriptive information such as age, height, body mass, and when appropriate the training status and training history of the subjects, e.g. years of training or sport experience. When appropriate, dietary controls and supervision should be described. All subject characteristics that are not dependent variables of the study should be included in this section and not in the Findings; ''Procedures,'' in this section the methods used are presented with the concept of ''replication of the study'' kept in mind. Authors should describe the research design used in the study. Training programs and testing methods used should be described in detail. Authors are strongly encouraged to include a Control group/condition when appropriate. If a Control group/condition is not used, authors must provide test-retest reliability coefficients of the measures used during protocols involving multiple testing periods. Test-retest reliability data should be generated from the authors' laboratory and not merely cited from literature obtained in other laboratories. Additionally, reviewers will look for experimental control for time of day, hydration, sleep and nutritional status. ''Statistical Analyses,'' here is where you clearly state your statistical approach to the analysis of the data set(s). It is important that you include your alpha level for significance (e.g., ρ ≤ 0.05). Please place your statistical power in the manuscript for the n size used and reliability of the dependent measures with intra-class correlations (ICC Rs). Additional subheadings can be used but should be limited. Authors should report effect sizes and confidence intervals when appropriate. Traditional statistical procedures must be used. The magnitude-based inference (MBI) approach may be used but only in conjunction with traditional methods.
C. Findings. Present the results of your study in this section. Put the most important findings in Figure or Table format and less important findings in the text. Do not include data that is not part of the experimental design or that has been published before. Authors should not replicate data present in the text in tables or figures.
D. Discussion. Discuss the meaning of the results of your study in this section. Relate them to the literature that currently exists and make sure you bring the paper to completion with each of your hypotheses. Authors should emphasize the new and unique findings of the study. Conclusions should be supported by the data presented. Limit obvious statements like, ‘‘more research is needed.’’
E. Conclusion. In this section, tell the readers how your data can be applied and used. It should reflect the answer to the question posed in the Introduction. This section should be limited to 350 words or less.
- References:
All references must be alphabetized by surname of first author and numbered. References are cited in the text by numbers [e.g., (4,9)]. All references listed must be cited in the manuscript and referred to by number therein. For original investigations, please limit the number of references to fewer than 45 or explain why more are necessary. The Editorial Office reserves the right to ask authors to reduce the number of references in the manuscript. It is acceptable to cite a published Research Abstract only if it is a sole source of information in that specific scientific area. PASE forbids the citation of manuscripts published on preprint servers. For journal entries with 6 or more co-authors, please list the first 3 names followed by "et al." When citing chapters within an edited textbook, authors must specifically cite the chapter author names (not the editors). Authors must also include the chapter name and page range for all book references. Please check references carefully for accuracy. Changes to references at the proof stage, especially changes affecting the numerical order in which they appear, will result in author revision fees. It is recommended that authors update the final reference list by either manually checking each reference to ensure proper formatting or updating their End Note software. To update the software, End Note users may edit "Output Styles" for PASE and save the changes. Users may click "Citations" and "Author Lists" to edit "Author Separators" "and "Abbreviated Author List". This will allow users to remove the term "and" and use "et al." for referencing. If using End Note please double-check citations and make sure journal article titles do not have all words capitalized and journal titles are abbreviated properly and italicized.
Below are several examples of references:
Journal Article:
Hawling, SF, Stone, RL, Lally, DA, Krock, LP. Estimation of aerobic capacity from submaximal cycle ergometry in women. Med Sci Sports Exerc 27: 452–457, 1995.
Kraemer, WJ, Hatfield DL, Comstock, BA, et al. Influence of HMB supplementation and resistance training on cytokines responses to resistance exercise. J Am Coll Nutr 33: 247-255, 2014.
Book:
Lohman, TG. Advances in Body Composition Assessment. Champaign, IL: Human Kinetics, 1992.
Chapter in an edited book:
Yahara, ML. The shoulder. In: Clinical Orthopedic Physical Therapy. J.K. Richardson and Z.A. Iglarsh, eds. Philadelphia: Saunders, 1994. pp. 159–199.
Software:
Howard, A. Moments ½software_. University of Queensland, 1992.
Proceedings:
Viru, A, Viru, M, Harris, R, Oopik, V, Nurmekivi, A, Medinen, L, Timpmann, S. Performance capacity in middle-distance runners after enrichment of diet by creatine and creatine action on protein synthesis rate. In: Proceedings of the 2nd Maccabiah-Wingate International Congress of Sport and Coaching Sciences. G. Tenenbaum and T. Raz-Liebermann, eds. Netanya, Israel, Wingate Institute, 1993. pp. 22–30.
Dissertation/Thesis:
Bartholmew, SA. Plyometric and vertical jump training. Master’s thesis, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, 1985.
- Acknowledgments:
In this section you can place the information related to identification of funding sources; current contact information of corresponding author; and gratitude to other people involved with the conduct of the experiment. In this part of the paper the conflict of interest information must be included. In particular, authors should: 1) Disclose professional relationships with companies or manufacturers who will benefit from the results of the present study, 2) Cite the specific grant support for the study and 3) State that the results of the present study do not constitute endorsement of the product by the authors. Failure to disclose such information could result in the rejection of the submitted manuscript. In addition, individual author contributions to the manuscript may be listed here.
- Figures:
Figure legends should appear on a separate page, with each figure appearing on its own separate page. One set of figures should accompany each manuscript. Use only clearly delineated symbols and bars. Please do not mask the facial features of subjects in figures. Permission of the subject to use his/her likeness in the Journal should be included in each submission. Photo release forms may be downloaded from the Information for Authors page at https://.....................................
Electronic photographs copied and pasted into Word and PowerPoint will not be accepted. Images should be scanned at a minimum of 300 pixels per inch (ppi). Line art should be scanned at 1200 ppi. Please indicate the file format of the graphics. We accept TIFF or EPS format for both Macintosh and PC platforms. We also accept image files in the following Native Application File Formats:
- Adobe Photoshop (.psd)
- Illustrator (.ai)
- PowerPoint (.ppt)
- QuarkXPress (.qxd)
If you will be using a digital camera to capture images for print production, you must use the highest resolution setting option with the least amount of compression. Digital camera manufacturers use many different terms and file formats when capturing high-resolution images, so please refer to your camera’s manual for more information.
Placement: Make sure that you have cited each figure and table in the text of the manuscript. Also show where it is to be place by noting this between paragraphs, such as Figure 1 about here or Table 1 about here.
Color figures: The journal accepts color figures for publication that will enhance an article. Authors who submit color figures will receive an estimate of the cost for color reproduction in print. If they decide not to pay for color reproduction in print, they can request that the figures be converted to black and white at no charge. All color figures can appear in color in the online version of the journal at no charge (Note: this includes the online version on the journal website and Ovid, but not the iPad edition currently).
- Tables:
Tables must be double-spaced on separate sheets and include a brief title. Provide generous spacing within tables and use as few line rules as possible. When tables are necessary, the information should not duplicate data in the text. All figures and tables must include standard deviations or standard errors. Please be careful to limit tables that extend to multiple Word document pages.