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Submission Guidelines

Contents

AUTHOR INFORMATION
Before Submission
Please make sure that your manuscript meets the below criteria:

  1. Your manuscript is an original work and has not been published or is currently under review with another journal or Conference Proceedings.
  2. Your work meets all the Research Ethics. The manuscript should contain a separate section of "Ethics Approval" if the work involves human or animal subjects.
  3. The English of the manuscript is acceptable and it should be free of grammatical and spelling errors.
  4. The manuscript should be edited according to the Jurnal Keolahragaan template (Manuscript Template).
  5. Your figures are of acceptable quality and uploaded as separate files.
  6. Your references are formatted correctly and numbered as they appear in the text. Please show the reference style.
  7. Only manuscripts of sufficient quality that meet the aims & scope of the journal will be reviewed.
  8. Manuscripts must conform to the guidelines of the journal shown below. 

Submissions that don't adhere to these guidelines will be rejected or returned to the Author prior to the peer review process.

Language Requirements
Manuscripts must be written in English in a clear and concise manner. Any author who is not fluent in idiomatic English is urged to seek assistance with manuscript preparation prior to submission. Reviewers are not expected to correct grammatical errors and any deficiency in this area may detract from the scientific content of the paper and result in acceptance delays or rejection.

Types of Articles
The journal seeks to publish four types of contributions in the form of original articles, short communications, reviews, and mini reviews.

  1. Original Articles: These articles present comprehensive research across a range of scientific fields.
  2. Review Articles: Submissions should generally be under 9,000 words, accompanied by an unstructured abstract, and incorporate up-to-date references. Meta-analyses, which are also classified as review articles, synthesize findings from multiple studies, offering broader conclusions and deeper insights than individual studies can provide.
  3. Book Reviews: These critiques assess recent publications relevant to the journal's field, providing an evaluation of the book’s content, methodology, and contribution to the discipline. Book reviews should offer a concise analysis, highlighting both the strengths and limitations of the work, and be aimed at guiding readers on the value of the book for research and practice.

Preparation of Manuscripts
Submitted manuscripts can be empirical research-based or literature-based papers which sufficiently contribute to the development of new knowledge, theories, or methods in sports. Authors are requested to submit their papers electronically by using the Jurnal Keolahragaan online submission procedure. The corresponding author should also provide a statement that the manuscript is not concurrently being under consideration for publication elsewhere. The Editors will ignore submissions that do not follow these procedures.

General Writing Format

  1. The manuscript is prepared in an A4 paper, single-sided, and single line spacing format. A new paragraph should start 5 characters from the left margin, using 11-size, Times-new-Romans font type.
  2. The manuscript is written in proper English.
  3. The manuscript should be between 8 to 14 (4000-7000 words) pages long.
  4. The top and bottom margins are 1,5 inch.
  5. The title is written using capital letters only at first word or special name (example: location name), 14 font size, centre position.
  6. Subtitles are written using capital letters only at first word or special name, 11 font size, starting from the left margin.
  7. Sub of subtitles, if any, are written using capital letters only at first word or special name. They should be started from the left margin.
  8. Sub of subtitles, if any, are written using capital letters only at the beginning of each word except for connecting words, all in italics. They should be started from the left margin.
  9. References should be those of the last ten years publication (>80%), except for key references (80%). Referring to any textbook should be minimized (<20%).

Specific Writing Format
Equations and formula should be numbered as (1), (2)...etc appearing to their right. Estimation results from a software package are not allowed to be directly presented in the paper. They should be presented in summary tables.

Tables and Figures
Tables and figures should be presented as follows:

  1. The name of tables and figures should follow a numbering system (Arabic numbering system).
  2. The title of the tables and figures are placed at the top and the bottom respectively. The tables and figures should provide the source of information, if any, at the bottom.
  3. Any table should contain only heading and contents. The table contains row lines only without column lines. Note(s) and source(s) should be included underneath the table where appropriate.

Acknowledgement
Acknowledgement, if any, should be written as the foot-note of the manuscript's title.

Subjects and Authors Index
The authors should provide an index of the subject, namely the specific terms in the manuscript. The authors should also provide the index of authors, namely the key authors of papers referred to in the manuscript. Please write the family name followed by the given name.

Citation
Citation in the text body should be written using the family name and years of publication. Example:

  1. Sukoco (2018) suggests that the objective of depreciation is...
  2. Inflation targeting would be sufficient (Fajaruddin, 2019).
  3. The definition of contagion is ... (Suharjana, 2019; Widiyanto 2020).
  4. The Authors are recommended to use Mendeley Reference software.

References
The manuscript is expected to involve approximately 25-30 primary and up-to-date references (at least last 8 years) to assert high-quality contributions to knowledge development. Citations and references must strictly follow the APA (American Psychological Association) style. References should include only works that are cited within the text of the manuscript. Consulting the APA style manual (http://www.apastyle.org/pubmanual.html) is strongly recommended for completing manuscript submissions.

SUBMIT ARTICLE
Online Submission
Manuscripts should be submitted by one of the authors of the manuscript through the online Manuscript Tracking System (MTS) following the instructions given on the screen. Only Word (.doc, .docx, .rtf) files can be submitted through the MTS, and there is no page limit. Submissions by anyone other than one of the authors will not be accepted. The submitting author takes responsibility for the manuscript during submission and peer review. If for some technical reason, submission through the MTS is not possible, the author can contact to jurnal.keolahragaan@uny.ac.id for support.

Initial evaluation
All submitted manuscripts will be checked by the Editorial Office to determine whether they are properly prepared and whether they follow the ethical policies of the journal. All submitted manuscripts are screened for potential plagiarism via iThenticate software. Manuscripts that do not fit the journal's ethics policy or do not meet the standards of the journal will be rejected before peer review. Incomplete manuscripts not prepared in the advised style will be sent back to authors without scientific review. After these checks, the Editorial Office will consult the journal’s Editor-in-Chief to determine whether the manuscript fits the scope of the journal and whether it is scientifically sound. Manuscripts with insufficient priority for publication will be rejected promptly. Please write your text in good English (American usage is accepted). The Editor reserves the right to reject a manuscript on the grounds of insufficient language quality. Reject decisions at this stage will be verified by the Editor-in-Chief.

Submission Declaration and Verification
Submission of an article implies that the work described has not been published previously (except in the form of an abstract, a published lecture, or an academic thesis), that it is not under consideration for publication elsewhere, that its publication is approved by all authors and tacitly or explicitly by the responsible authorities where the work was carried out, and that, if accepted, it will not be published elsewhere in the same form, in English or in any other language, including electronically without the written consent of the copyright holder. To verify originality, all manuscripts submitted to Jurnal Keolarhagaan are screened using Crossref Similarity Check Powered by iThenticate to identify any plagiarized content.

Article structure
The manuscript should be anonymized (with no author names or identities included) and compiled in the following order:

  1. Manuscript Title
  2. Abstract
  3. Keywords
  4. Full manuscript (comprising of Introduction, Method, Results and Discussion (can be combined in one section or separated in two subsections: Results subsection and Discussion subsection), Conclusion, Acknowledgment(s), Conflicts of Interest, and References)
  5. Tables
  6. Figures

Title page 
The title page should include the following in English and Arabic: 

  1. Title: The title should be brief, concise, and descriptive. It should not contain any literature references or compound numbers or non-standardized abbreviations. It should be centered, typed in Times New Roman 14 point and boldface.
  2. Authors and affiliations: Supply given names, middle initials, and family names for complete identification. They should be centered beneath the title and typed in Times New Roman 11-point. Use superscript lowercase letters to indicate different affiliations, which should be as detailed as possible and must include department, faculty/college, University, the city with zip code or P.O. Box and country. The primary affiliation for each author should be the institution where most of their work was done. if an author has subsequently moved, the current address may additionally be stated. Addresses will not be updated after the publication of the article.
  3. Corresponding author: Should be indicated with an asterisk, and contact details (Tel., fax, and e-mail address) should be placed in a footnote. 

Abstract 
The abstract should be self-contained, citation-free, and should not exceed 250 words. The abstract should briefly describe the purpose of the study, how the investigation was performed, the most important results, and the principal conclusions that were drawn from the results, respectively. Nonstandard or uncommon abbreviations should be defined at first mention within the abstract. The abstract should be typed in Times New Roman, 9-point, non-italic and non-boldface. 

Keywords 
Authors are asked to provide (4 to 6) keywords, separated with semicolons, and should be typed in Times New Roman, 10-point, non-italic and non-boldface. 

Introduction 
This section should be succinct, with no subheadings. The author(s) should strive to define the significance of the work and the justification for its publication. Any background discussion should be brief and restricted to pertinent material. 

Material and methods (Experimental or Methodology or Patients and methods) 
This part should contain sufficient detail that would enable all procedures to be repeated. It can be divided into subsections if several methods are described. Authors should be as concise as possible in experimental descriptions. The experimental section must contain all of the information necessary to guarantee reproducibility. Previously published methods should be indicated by a reference and only relevant modifications should be described. All vendor details, including company, city, and country, should be mentioned for chemicals, reagents, strains, etc. For statistical analysis, please state the appropriate test(s) in addition to a hypothesized p-value or significant level (for example 0.05). 

Results and Discussion 
They should be combined. The study results should be clear and concise. Restrict the use of tables and figures to depict data that is essential to the message and interpretation of the study. The results should be presented in a logical sequence in the text, tables and illustrations. The discussion should explore the significance of the results of the work, not repeat them. Include in the discussion the implications of the findings and their limitations, how the findings fit into the context of other relevant work, and directions for future research. 

Conclusion(s) 
The main conclusion(s) of the study should be presented in a short conclusion statement highlighting the goals of the study and its importance. State new hypotheses when warranted. Include recommendations when appropriate. 

Acknowledgment(s) 
All acknowledgments (if any) should be included at the very end of the manuscript before the references. Anyone who made a contribution to the research or manuscript, but who is not a listed author, should be acknowledged (with their permission). 

Conflicts of Interest 
Authors must declare all relevant interests that could be perceived as conflicting. Authors should explain why each interest may represent a conflict. If no conflicts exist, the authors should state this. Submitting authors are responsible for co-authors declaring their interests. 

Figures 
Figures and tables should not be submitted in separate files. If the article is accepted, authors will be asked to provide the source files of the figures. Each figure should be supplied in a separate electronic file. All figures should be cited in the manuscript in consecutive order. Figures should be supplied in either vector art formats (Illustrator, EPS, WMF, FreeHand, 

CorelDraw, PowerPoint, Excel, etc.) or bitmap formats (Photoshop, TIFF, GIF, JPEG, etc.). Bitmap images should be of 300 dpi resolution at least unless the resolution is intentionally set to a lower level for scientific reasons. If a bitmap image has labels, the image and labels should be embedded in separate layers. Figures should be referred to as Fig. 1, Figs. 2, 3-5, using Arabic numerals. Ensure that all tables, figures, and schemes are cited in the text in numerical order.  Figure parts should be denoted by lowercase letters (a,b,c,..etc). 

Tables 
Tables should be cited consecutively in the text. Every table must have a descriptive title and if numerical measurements are given, the units should be included in the column heading. Vertical rules should not be used. Figure and table captions should be 9-point Times New Roman, boldface, and non-italic. Initially capitalize only the first word of the caption. Figure captions are to be below the figures and Table titles are to be fully justified right and left above the table. 

Nomenclature and Units 
All measurements and data should be given in SI units where possible, or in other internationally accepted units in parentheses throughout the text. Illustrations and Tables should use conventional units, with conversion factors given in legends or footnotes. 

Statements & Declarations 
The following statements must be included in your submitted manuscript under the heading 'Statements and Declarations'. This should be placed after the References section. Please note that submissions that do not include required statements will be returned as incomplete.  

Competing Interests 
Authors are required to disclose financial or non-financial interests that are directly or indirectly related to the work submitted for publication. Interests within the last 3 years of beginning the work (conducting the research and preparing the work for submission) should be reported. Interests outside the 3-year time frame must be disclosed if they could reasonably be perceived as influencing the submitted work. 

Example statements: 
“Financial interests: Author A and B declare they have no financial interests. Author C has received speaker and consultant honoraria from Company M. Dr. C has received speaker honorarium and research funding from Company M and Company N. Author D has received travel support from Company O. Non-financial interests: Author D has served on advisory boards for Company M and Company N.” 

“The authors have no relevant financial or non-financial interests to disclose.” 

Please refer to the “Competing Interests” section below for more information on how to complete these sections. 

Author Contributions 
Authors are encouraged to include a statement that specifies the contribution of every author to the research and preparation of the manuscript. 

Example statement: 
“All authors contributed to the study conception and design. Material preparation, data collection and analysis were performed by [full name], [full name] and [full name]. The first draft of the manuscript was written by [full name] and all authors commented on previous versions of the manuscript. All authors read and approved the final manuscript.” 

Please refer to the “Authorship Principles ” section below for more information on how to complete this section. 

Data Availability 
This journal encourages authors to provide an optional statement of data availability in their article. Data Availability Statements should include information on where data supporting the results reported in the article can be found, including, where applicable, hyperlinks to publicly archived datasets analysed or generated during the study. Data availability statements can also indicate whether data are available on request from the authors and where no data are available, if appropriate. 

Example statements: 
“The datasets generated during and/or analysed during the current study are available in the [NAME] repository, [PERSISTENT LINK TO DATASETS]” 

“The datasets generated during and/or analysed during the current study are available from the corresponding author on reasonable request.” 

Please refer to the “Research Data Policy and Data Availability” section below for more information on how to complete this section. 

In addition to the above, manuscripts that report the results of studies involving humans and/or animals should include the following declarations: 

Ethics approval 
Authors of research involving human or animal subjects should include a statement that confirms that the study was approved (or granted exemption) by the appropriate institutional and/or national research ethics committee (including the name of the ethics committee and reference number, if available). For research involving animals, their data or biological material, authors should supply detailed information on the ethical treatment of their animals in their submission. If a study was granted exemption or did not require ethics approval, this should also be detailed in the manuscript. 

“This study was performed in line with the principles of the Declaration of Helsinki. Approval was granted by the Ethics Committee of University B (Date.../No....).” 

“This is an observational study. The XYZ Research Ethics Committee has confirmed that no ethical approval is required.” 

For detailed information on relevant ethical standards and criteria, please refer to the sections on “Research involving human participants, their data or biological material”, “Research involving animals, their data or biological material”. 

Consent to participate 
For all research involving human subjects, freely-given, informed consent to participate in the study must be obtained from participants (or their parent or legal guardian in the case of children under 16) and a statement to this effect should appear in the manuscript. 

Example statement: 
“Informed consent was obtained from all individual participants included in the study.” 

“Written informed consent was obtained from the parents.” 

Please refer to the section on “Informed Consent” for additional help with completing this information. 

Consent to publish 
Individuals may consent to participate in a study, but object to having their data published in a journal article. If your manuscript contains any individual person’s data in any form (including any individual details, images or videos), consent for publication must be obtained from that person, or in the case of children, their parent or legal guardian. This is in particular applicable to case studies. A statement confirming that consent to publish has been received from all participants should appear in the manuscript. 

Example statement: 
“The authors affirm that human research participants provided informed consent for publication of the images in Figure(s) 1a, 1b and 1c.” 

Please refer to the section on “Informed Consent” for additional help with completing this information. 

Proofs 
One set of page proofs (as PDF files) will be sent by e-mail to the corresponding author. Please use this proof only for checking the typesetting, editing, completeness, and correctness of the text, tables, and figures. We will do our best to get your article published quickly and accurately. Therefore, it is important to ensure that all of your corrections are sent back in one communication within 48 h. proofreading is solely your responsibility. Note that the publisher may proceed with the publication of an article if no response is received. 

Revised manuscripts 
The authors must submit the revised version of their submissions within one month of receiving the editorial decision. Revision does not mean that the manuscript will be accepted for publication, as the amended submissions could be sent out for reevaluation. In response to reviewers’ comments, the authors must ensure that each comment is followed by their revision and/or response. In instances where an author disagrees with a comment or suggestion of a reviewer, please justify the reason. Any associated changes in the manuscript must be highlighted in the revised form of the manuscript to facilitate the process of re-evaluation. 

After acceptance 
Upon acceptance, your article will be exported to production to undergo typesetting. once the typesetting is complete, you will receive the proofs. 

Peer Review 
All manuscripts are subjected to peer review and are expected to meet the standards of academic excellence. If approved by the editor, submissions will be considered by peer reviewers, whose identities will remain anonymous to the authors and vice versa, identities of authors will remain anonymous to the reviewers (Double-blind peer review). The decision regarding the acceptance or rejection of a manuscript is the responsibility of the editorial board and is based on the recommendations of the reviewers (peer-reviewed process). 

Our Research Integrity team will occasionally seek advice outside standard peer review, for example, on submissions with serious ethical, security, biosecurity, or societal implications. We may consult experts and the academic editor before deciding on appropriate actions, including but not limited to recruiting reviewers with specific expertise, assessment by additional editors, and declining to further consider a submission. 

Ethical Guidelines 
In any study on human or animal subjects, the following ethical guidelines must be observed. For any experiments on humans, all work must be conducted in accordance with the Declaration of Helsinki (1964). Manuscripts describing experimental work which carries a risk of harm to human subjects must include a statement that the experiment was conducted with the human subjects’ understanding and consent, as well as a statement that the responsible Ethical Committee has approved the experiments. In the case of any animal experiments, the authors must provide a full description of any anesthetic or surgical procedure used, as well as evidence that all possible steps were taken to avoid animal suffering at each stage of the experiment. 

Complying with Ethics of Experimentation 
Please ensure that all research reported in submitted papers has been conducted in an ethical and responsible manner, and is in full compliance with all relevant codes of experimentation and legislation. All original research papers involving humans, animals, plants, biological material, protected or non-public datasets, collections or sites, must include a written statement under an Ethics Approval section including the following: 

  • The name of the ethics committee(s) or institutional review board(s) involved. 
  • The number or ID of the ethics approval(s).
  • A statement that human participants have provided informed consent before taking part in the research.
  • Research involving animals must adhere to ethical standards concerning animal welfare. All original research papers involving animals must: 
  • Follow international, national, and institutional guidelines for the humane treatment of animals. 
  • Receive approval by the ethics review committee at the institution or practice at which the research was conducted and provide details on the approval process, names of the ethics committee(s) or institutional review board(s) involved, and the number or ID of the ethics approval(s) in the Ethics Approval section. 
  • Provide justification for use of animals and the species selected. 
  • Provide information about housing, feeding, and environmental enrichment, and steps taken to minimize suffering. 
  • Provide mode of anesthesia and euthanasia. 

Supplementary materials 
Authors can publish online supplementary files along with their articles or book chapter. Each supplementary file should include an article title, journal name, authors' names, affiliations, and email address of the corresponding author. supplementary files will be published as received from the authors without any conversion, editing, or reforming. 

AUTHOR FEES
This journal charges the following author fees.

  • Article Submission: 0.00 (IDR)
  • Fast-Track Review: 0.00 (IDR)
  • Article Publication: 1,500,000.00 (IDR) / ~100 USD

Jurnal Keolahragaan does not charge any publication fee for authors who have a submission date of 2017. Starting from 2018, for service improvement, this journal charges an article publication fee to support the cost of wide-open access dissemination of research results, managing various costs associated with handling and editing submitted manuscripts, and general journal management and publication. The authors or the author's institution are requested to pay the publication fee for each article accepted.

The fee covers:

  • The standard twelve (12) pages manuscript. For every additional page, an extra fee of 15 USD per page will be charged.
  • DOI registration for each paper.
    Checking the article similarity by Turnitin; the final result will be sent to the authors.
    This fee does not cover the proofreading fee. Every article published in Jurnal Keolahragaan will be proofread by a professional proofreader at an additional cost of IDR 500,000 (~30 USD).

A waiver or partial waiver of author fees may be decided by the editor in case of lack of funding, excessive length of a submitted manuscript, or other reasonable reasons provided by the author during the submission. The author should declare their request for a waiver in the comments to the Editor box during submission. A waiver is most likely to be denied if it is not asked at this stage. The waiver will have no effect on the review result.