International Journal of Golf Science Submissions Guidelines
All submissions to the International Journal of Golf Science will follow the guidelines included below.
Please email all submissions to debbie@golfscience.org for peer review.
The first issue will be August 2012, all submissions due MAY 1st
The second issue will be December 2012, all submissions due August 1st
Submission Guidelines for IJGS
International Journal of Golf Science (IJGS) welcomes a range of submissions related to golf. Contributions may be about the golfer, golf equipment and technology, golf analytics, golf business and management, or the golf course.
Standard canons of good research will be honored in the review process. Depending on the type of research being conducted, submissions must reflect good scientific procedure, the best practices of qualitative methodologies, and/or sustained and effective argumentation. Submissions that are editorial or polemical in nature are not consistent with the mission of the journal.
All submissions will be reviewed by the Editor and/or Editorial Board and/or other peers in the respective fields. The Editor reserves the right to return manuscripts without full review if any submission does not comply with basic editorial and scholarly standards of the International Journal of Golf Science.
The preferred mode of submission will be through the Human Kinetics ManuscriptCentral online review system, once it becomes activated (updates to this document will be made at that time). Until that time, submissions should be sent directly to the Editor, Debbie Crews, at Debbie@golfscience.org
Manuscripts should be created in Microsoft Word and conform to the reference, endnote, and bibliographical style according to the Publication Manual of the American Psychological Association (APA) (sixth edition). Manuscripts employing alternative formats will be accepted for review, although stylistic revision will be required before publication.
All manuscripts must be accompanied by a cover letter as an introduction to the submission and also indicating that the work has not been submitted to any other publication simultaneously.
All articles must be preceded by an abstract of 100–150 words. All segments of the manuscript must be double-spaced including the abstract, references, and tables. Label clearly any tables and graphs. Number all pages in the upper right corner in this order: title page, abstract, text, references, acknowledgments if any, figure captions, tables, and figures.
Tables and figures must be crisp, clear, and properly labeled. Do not submit low-resolution electronic files. Digital images should be 300 dpi at full size for photos and 600 dpi for line art. Format tables in the table function of your word-processing program rather than aligning columns in text with tabs and spaces or using text boxes. Total number of words including tables, figures, acknowledgements, references, etc., not to exceed 8,000.
Authors of manuscripts accepted for publication must transfer copyright to Human Kinetics Publishers, Inc. A copyright transfer form will be provided prior to publication.
