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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.
  • Template WORD 
  • Title Page WORD 

  • The sending rules and the Checklist for sending items to CCD, hosted on this website have been revised.

    Author guidelines - PDF 

  • The text meets the bibliographic and style requirements indicated in the APA 7th Ed standards - URL 
  • The article has not been published or sent simultaneously to another journal for review and subsequent publication.
  • The author has the legitimate authority of use over all intellectual and industrial property rights corresponding to the article in question.
  • Studies involving humans or animals must cite the ethical committee that approved the study. When describing experiments that have been performed with human beings, it should be noted that in addition to the institutional or regional ethical committee, the study agrees with the World Medical Association and the Helsinki Declaration. No names, initials or numbers should be used to identify the participants.
  • The conflict of interest policy has been included.
  • You have included 5 possible reviewers for the manuscript (specifying name, surname, institution, email) who have not been coauthors of the authors and who do not belong to the same institution.

Author Guidelines

Author guidelines - PDF

The Cultura, Ciencia y Deporte journal shall be open to research papers related to the different thematic areas and work fields in Physical Education and Sport, provided they are scientifically founded. Due to the specialised nature of this journal, neither purely dissemination articles, nor articles that merely state opinions instead of conclusions derived from contrasted research, will be considered for publication. Papers shall be submitted electronically using our website, on which the author must sign up as an author and proceed as instructed.

 

1.1 Paper submission

All submissions must include TWO DOCUMENTS. The first one will correspond to the ‘Template’ and the second one to the ‘Title Page’.

The template must be completely anonymous: THE TEMPLATE MUST BE COMPLETELY ANONYMOUS, WITHOUT ANY REFERENCE THAT WOULD ALLOW THE REVIEWERS TO IDENTIFY THE AUTHORS OF THE MANUSCRIPT. THE ‘ANONYMOUS ARTICLE’.

Every author who submits a manuscript in Spanish, and whose article is finally accepted, must send the final version in both Spanish and English, for publication in the two languages. This is not necessary if the article is initially submitted in English.

When submitting a paper to be part of a monograph, select the tab with the name of the monograph in which you intend to publish it during the submission process.

If you use a citation and reference manager, you must submit the manuscript in plain text.

 

1.2. Types of articles considered for peer review in the Cultura, Ciencia y Deporte Journal

1.2.1. Original research

These are articles that report on an original empirical study structured in sections that reflect the steps followed in the research. The full text must follow the IMRDC structure (Introduction, Method, Results, Discussion and Conclusions).

1.2.2. Review article

Review articles shall follow the format and structure of original research.

 Reviews on the current state or level of scientific development of a particular topic must be systematic, critical or narrative.

1.2. 3. Editorial.

This section of the Culture, Science and Sport section shall accept essays on sport-related topics that are properly structured and sufficiently justified, well-founded, argued and logically coherent. This section is expected to be dynamic and up to date, setting the editorial line on sport that underlies the journal.

Here you do not need to follow the structure of original research, just the same format.

 

1.3. Length

Abstract, unstructured: cannot exceed 200 words in English.

Manuscript (original articles, systematic reviews): an article for this journal should be no more than 8000 words, inclusive of:

  • Text of the article.
  • Figures.
  • Tables.

 

1.4. Relevant information about the journal

1.4.1. The Cultura, Ciencia y Deporte journal adheres to the Code of Conduct and Best Practices Guidelines for Journal Editors of the Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE) and to the Recommendations for the Conduct, Reporting, Editing, and Publication of Scholarly Work in Medical Journals of the International Committee of Medical Journal Editors (ICJME). The journal is committed to the detection of plagiarism and other types of fraud in the writing and submission of articles to Cultura, Ciencia y Deporte.

1.4.2. The editorial policy of the journal promotes the use of inclusive language in scientific articles. Please consider this guideline and review your paper before submitting it to the journal.

 

1.5. Processing of personal data

Pursuant to the provisions of Article 17 of Spanish Royal Decree 994/1999, approving the Regulations on Security Measures for Automated Files containing Personal Data, as well as Spanish Organic Law 15/1999 on the Protection of Personal Data, and Spanish Organic Law 3/2018, of 5 December, on the Protection of Personal Data and the guarantee of digital rights, the Cultura, Ciencia y Deporte executive board guarantees the proper processing of personal data.

 

1.6. Information regarding proofreading / galley proofing following acceptance of the article 

Once the article has been accepted for publication, it will be typeset. To this end, the editorial team of Cultura, Ciencia y Deporte will contact the authors, sending them the manuscript with the necessary stylistic modifications. Authors must respond to the requests made within a maximum period of 7 to 10 days (this will be indicated in the email depending on the changes to be made).

Once the modified documents have been received, they will be sent to the layout team to generate the final PDF of the article. This PDF (galley proofs) will be sent to the authors for review within a maximum of 48 hours. This review may indicate aspects relating to errors made during the layout process, but under no circumstances may content be added or substantial changes made to the article.

 

1.7. Statements

The title page must include the following information:

  • Ethics Committee Statement
  • Conflict of Interest Statement
  • Funding
  • Contribution of the Author
  • Data Availability Statement
  • Acknowledgements

 

1.8 Payment as partial funding of the publication

According to the Open Access philosophy of this journal and in order to cover part of the publication costs and thus improve the quality, visibility and impact of the publication, Cultura, Ciencia y Deporte sets a publication fee of €120 (VAT included). From 1/09/2024 onwards, submissions will be subject to a publication fee of €300 (VAT included). This fee must be paid upon notification of acceptance of the article. 

Once the article has been accepted, please complete a bank transfer to the account number ES020081508938380001094420, whose holder is the ‘FUNDACIÓN UNIVERSITARIA SAN ANTONIO’, specifying ‘Revista CCD + nº of the article’ (CCD journal + article number) in the concept. Then send the proof of payment to ccd@ucam.edu.

In Cultura, Ciencia y Deporte, article reviewers are awarded one publication free of charge for every five articles they have reviewed in the time and manner requested by the editors. To that effect, they must specify the revised articles in order to benefit from the exemption from payment upon request. Editors are exempt from payment.

1.9. Conflict of interest policy

All authors must disclose any financial and personal relationships with other individuals or organisations that could inappropriately influence (bias) their work.

Examples of potential competing interests include employment, consultancies, stock ownership, honoraria, paid expert testimony, patent applications/registrations, and grants or other funding. Authors must disclose any interests in a summarised statement of interests in the file that includes the details of the authors. If there are no interests to declare then please state this: ‘Declarations of interest: none’. 

 

1.10. Proposal for the publication of monographs in Cultura, Ciencia y Deporte

Anyone interested in submitting a proposal for the publication of a monograph in the journal Cultura, Ciencia y Deporte must send a description of 500-600 words (including references) to the email address of the journal (ccd@ucam.edu). The email must include a description of the subject matter and content of the proposed monograph, as well as the CVs of the coordinator(s) (maximum 3 people).

Upon acceptance of the monograph proposal, there will be a call for papers and a deadline for submissions, to be determined by the coordinator of the monograph. The editorial team of the Cultura, Ciencia y Deporte Journal will set a date for the publication of the monograph, depending on its availability. The duties of the coordinator of the monograph will be to write the editorial of the monograph, and to provide a list of potential reviewers who will be selected by the editorial team to carry out the peer reviews of the articles in the monograph. A minimum of 10 accepted articles will be required for the monograph to be published. The monograph coordinator may invite authors to contribute manuscripts. However, the final decision as to whether an article is accepted for inclusion in the monograph will be made by the editorial team, not by the monograph coordinator. 

All manuscripts accepted for publication, including the editorial, will have a DOI

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The authors who publish in this journal agree with the following terms:

  • The authors retain the copyright and guarantee the journal the right to be the first publication of the work as well as licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution License that allows others to share the work with recognition of the authorship of the work and the initial publication in this journal.

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