Submissions

Author Guidelines

INSTRUCTIONS TO AUTHORS

The Greek Journal of Sport and Social Sciences publishes original works relevant to sports issues that have not been published in another journal or book.

Manuscript submissions require the registration of the user as an author. Manuscripts are submitted electronically via e-mail: sport-soc@social.soc.uoc.gr

All manuscripts are checked for plagiarism. The Journal reserves the right to reject manuscripts that do not adhere to the instructions to authors.

Papers submitted as articles should not exceed 9000 words. Τhe font size is 12 point Times New Roman and the text is double spaced. Texts must be written in a word processor (eg. MS Office, Open Office). The presentation of a doctoral thesis and research, book reviews and book presentations as well as short case studies should not exceed 2500 words.

The texts should be accompanied by the following:

• A file formatted according to the APA 7 guidelines for the title page. The title page should contain the title of the paper, the full name of the author(s) in Greek and English, contact information, and e-mail address.
• A second file containing: the title of the study in English and in Greek, a 150-200 word abstract in Greek and in English, main keywords (5 to 8 words), and the main text. Authors should ensure a double-blind process by preparing this second file in a way that conceals their identity. The keywords will follow the abstract and will be listed after the Greek abstract, for example, as follows:

Keywords: basketball, spectacle, enjoyment, commercialization, community

In-Text Citations

Greek Journal of Sport and Social Sciences employs parenthetical or narrative in-text citations.

In parenthetical citations, the author name and publication date appear in parentheses within or at the end of a sentence.

Example: graffiti creation offers opportunities to make space for alternative kinds of aesthetic (dis)order), dialogue and urban encounter (Ivenson, 2010, p. 26)

In narrative citations the author’s surname appears in running text, and the date appears in parentheses immediately after the author’s name for a narrative citation:

Example: Ferrel (1955) noted the increasing segregation and control of urban environments   

Appropriate credit to the sources 

The number of sources you cite in your paper depends on the purpose of each paper. The Journal suggests that authors provide appropriate credit to the source (e.g., by using an in-text citation) adhering to the following processes:

• paraphrase (i.e., state in your own words) the ideas of others
• directly quote the words of others. When a quotation is longer than 40 words, it is suggested to use apply Times New Roman, 12-point font, indent the quotation by 0.5 inches from the left margin, and begin it on a new line. Using direct quotes from other authors should be minimized.
• refer to data or data sets
• reprint or adapt a table or figure, even images from the internet free or licenced in the Creative Commons
• reprint of a long text passage or a commercially copyrighted test item

Plagiarism

Plagiarism is the act of presenting the words, ideas, or images of another as your own; it denies the authors or creators of content the credit they are due. Whether deliberate or unintentional, plagiarism violates ethical standards in scholarship and the Journal recommends authors to avoid plagiarism by providing appropriate credit to their sources by adding author–date in-text citations for direct quotations and citing source scrupulously.

Journal Article References

Authors must use the APA 7 reference standards in texts and the list of references:  

Williams, C. (2007). Potential spaces of crime: The playful, the destructive, and the distinctively human. Crime, Media Culture 3(1), 49–68.  https://doi.org/10.1177/1741659007074447

Parenthetical citation in text: (Williams, 2007)

Narrative citation in text: Williams (2019)

If a journal article has a DOI, include the DOI in the reference.

Castañeda, L., & Selwyn, N. (2018). More than tools? Making sense of the ongoing digitizations of higher education. International Journal of Educational Technology in Higher Education. 15(1), 1-18. https://doi.org/10.1186/s41239-018-0109-y

If the journal does not use volume, issue, and/or article or page numbers, omit the missing element(s) from the reference.

Newspaper references 

In the source element of the reference, provide at minimum the title of the newspaper in italic title case.

If the newspaper article is from an online newspaper that has a URL that will resolve for readers (as in the Carey example), include the URL of the article at the end of the reference.

Doxiadis A., Theodoropoulos T. and Markaris P. (2008, December 24) ‘The cultural revolution’. Kathimerini. (In Greek).  

Carey, B. (2019, March 22). Can we get better at forgetting? The New York Times. 

Whole authored book

Provide the author, year of publication, title, and publisher of the book. Use the same format for both print books and e-books. If the used book is the second edition of the book, include the relevant information in parentheses after the title, without italics.

Example: 

Standing, G. (2011). The precariat: the new dangerous class. Bloomsbury Academic.

Ulbrich H. (2003) Public Finance in Theory and Practice (second edition). Routledge.   

Chapters in Edited Book

Provide the author, year of publication, the title of chapter, the title of the book and its editor(s), place and publisher of the book. Use the same format for both print books and e-books. If the used book is the second edition of the book, include the relevant information in parentheses after the title, without italics.

 Examples: 

Stoddart, B. (2004). Sport colonialism and struggle C.L.R. James and cricket. In R. Giulianotti (Ed.), Sport and modern social theories (pp. 111–128), Palgrave.  

Title Page and Authors

The manuscript's title page should be typed in 14-point Times New Roman regular font that is centered on the page.  Author names should be typed in 13-point Times New Roman, regular font.

 Chapters

The titles of the chapters should be typed in 13-point Times New Roman regular font and the titles of the sub-chapters (if any) should be in 12-point Times New Roman, italic font.

The numbering (only if deemed necessary by the author) of the chapters and sub-chapters should be as follows:

1.  1.1.  1.2.
2.  2.1.  2.2. etc.