CALL FOR PAPERS – ABSTRACT GUIDELINES BMS XIV

Bodo Ungerechts1, Stefan Hochstein1, Wolfram Sperling1 & Maren Witt2

1BMS Organizing Team, 2Leipzig University

INTRODUCTION

Aquatic activity scientists, medical doctors, paramedical professionals, psychologists, coaches and teachers are encouraged to present their original contributions to the Scientific Conference, always referred to the Scientific Conference topics listed in the specific section. Contributions for podium or poster presentations should incorporate original scientific findings, technical notes, or sports and clinical (medical and psychological) case studies.

An Abstract Submission Form must be enclosed with each submitted abstract. Authors may indicate a preference for podium presentation and/or poster display, but the Scientific Committee reserves the right to reallocate presentation formats.

Participants are encouraged to submit, as first author, only one paper for podium presentation and additional papers for poster display. Authors who are unable to personally present their work must designate a co-author familiar to the scientific content to present the paper and answer the questions. In this case the co-author should not have any other podium presentation as first author in the scientific programme.

The Scientific Board of the Scientific Conference will conduct a peer review of the abstracts submitted to appreciation, notifying authors of their acceptance (podium or poster presentation), acceptance with corrections or rejection of the proposals.

“Accepted with corrections” abstracts should be re-submitted until together with full manuscripts.

Accepted abstracts will be published in the Book of Abstracts of the Scientific Conference.

METHODS

Authors are requested to submit one-page camera-ready abstracts to be printed in the Abstract Book of the Scientific Conference. The abstract should provide sufficient information for readers to fully assess the aims, methods, results and implications of the research in question. Each submission must be original work that has not been published previously. Each abstract will be reviewed before acceptance.

Abstract Format: The abstracts should be formatted to A4 size (210 mm x 297 mm), and written within a 160 mm wide and 247 mm high rectangle with 25-mm margins around. The text should be justified, single-spaced, a character size set at 12 points with a Times typeface. Please, do not use typefaces simulating scriptwriting and do not translineate (hyphenate) words at the end of lines. The abstract has a maximum length of one page!! A submission is only possible in pdf format.

Headings: Type the title of the abstract in CAPITAL letters in the first rows of the page and thereafter leave one line empty. Then type the full name(s) of the author(s) without university degrees or titles, separated by commas, and then leave one line empty. Affiliation(s), city and country should be without street addresses and zip codes. Leave one line empty before the text.

Text: The one-page abstract should include the following sections: INTRODUCTION (the purpose of the study and a brief review on relevant literature), METHODS (a short explanation on data collection and processing), RESULTS (may be in the form of text, graphics or tables), DISCUSSION (major findings and conclusions), and REFERENCES (Please try to minimise the amount of references. Use “Instructions to authors” in Portuguese Journal of Sport Sciences as a format for references).

RESULTS

The main emphasis should be on the results and discussion. Please write the titles of each section in CAPITAL letters and justify the left margin. Do not separate titles or paragraphs by a blank line but leave one line empty before each section. Leave a 10-mm indention at the beginning of each new paragraph. Provide line drawings and glossy photographs in the correct size for insertion within the text. Figures and captions must remain within the defined text limits. Figures should be positioned in the appropriate position. Each drawing should be numbered and have a short caption commentary. Equations can be provided either as line drawings or as glossy photographs in the correct size. Only SI units are to be employed.

Figure 1: Here must be a short caption commentary

DISCUSSION

Full papers guidelines

The full length paper has a length of 4 to 6 pages, if it is longer, please contact us in advance.

REFERENCES

Please notice that REFERENCES should follow the APA-Standard (https://apastyle.apa.org/instructional-aids/reference-examples.pdf).