Instruction for Authors

Manuscript Submission Guidelines:

Manuscript Submission :

The Journal for Sport Law, Policy and Governance accepts and reviews submissions on a rolling basis. Submission must fall within the scope of the journal, which can be found here. The submission undergoes a rigorous blind double peer-review process. We attempt to review and process articles within 4 weeks of submission. Please follow up with us if you have not heard back from us within 6 weeks.

Permission:

Authors who desire to incorporate figures, tables, or textual excerpts that have previously been published in other sources must acquire permission from the respective copyright owner(s) for both the printed and online formats. Furthermore, authors must provide documented proof of obtaining such permission when submitting their papers. In the absence of such evidence, it will be presumed that the material originates from the authors themselves.

Online Submission:

Please follow the "Submission Page " and and upload all of your manuscript files following the instructions in the form.

Source Files:

It is imperative to ensure the inclusion of all pertinent editable source files during each submission and revision. Failure to provide a comprehensive set of such files will render your article ineligible for review. When submitting the manuscript text, it is essential to utilize widely used word processing formats such as .docx.

Submission Guidelines:

Submissions that are plagiarised will not be accepted. Submissions are accepted for publication on the condition that they do not infringe the copyright or any other rights of any third parties.
No biographical information or references, including the name(s) of the author(s), affiliation(s), and acknowledgments, should be included in the text of the manuscript, file name or document properties.
A separate title page should be submitted along with the blinded manuscript.
Submissions made to JSLPG must be on an exclusive basis and must not be under the concurrent consideration of any other academic publication.
A separate title page should be submitted along with the blinded manuscript.

Type of Submission:

Long Articles (6,000 – 12,000 words): Submissions in this category are expected to engage with the topic, its theme and available literature comprehensively so as to offer original and argumentative contributions.
Short Articles (3,000 – 6,000 words): Submissions in this category are comparatively more concise and limited in scope. They deal with a very specific topic as compared to Long Articles.
Case Commentaries / Legislative Comments (1,500 – 3,000 words): Submissions in this category are expected to critically analyse a recent judicial/quasi-judicial or legislative/policy proposal, either in India or abroad, and comment on its implications.
Book Reviews (1,000 – 3,000 words): Submissions in this category are expected to critically analyse and engage with a recent academic book that falls under our mandate.

Note: These word limits are indicative, and we retain a reasonable level of flexibility in this regard. Further these word limits are exclusive of footnotes and references.

Title Page:

The title page should contain the following information:

Title of the manuscript
The name(s) of the author(s)
The affiliation(s) of the author(s), i.e. institution, (department), city, (state), country
An active email-address of the corresponding author
If available, the 16-digit ORCID of the authors

General Formatting Guideline:

Submissions that are plagiarised to a level of more than 15% will not be accepted.

Authors' details:

Times New Roman; 12 pt; single-line spacing; alignment centred. Please write the authors' details in the following order:

Sachin Tendulkar

Position

XYZ University - Mumbai

ORCID ID: https://orcid.org/0000

E-mail: xyz@ra.uni.edu

Abstract: Please provide an abstract of 150 to 250 words. The abstract should not contain any undefined abbreviations or unspecified references.

Keywords: Please provide 4 to 6 keywords which can be used for indexing purposes.

General Formatting Guidelines:

Submissions must be in Microsoft Word (.docx or .doc) format and must conform to the JSLPG Style Guide.
Font Style: Times New Roman.
Main Title: 16 pt, Bold.
Heading: 14 pt, Bold.
Subheading: 12 pt, Bold.
Body Text: 12 pt, justified.
Spacing: 1.5
References: Times New Roman, 12 pt.
Footnotes: Times New Roman, 10 pt.
Margin: 2.54 cm (Top, Bottom, Right, Left)
Alignment: Justified
Page must not have borders
Please mention the page number on the bottom right corner

** Presently, the prevailing standards for authorship criteria do not find Large Language Models (LLMs), including ChatGPT, to be in compliance. It is essential to acknowledge that authorship attribution entails a sense of responsibility for the work, a concept that is not adequately applicable to LLMs. Hence, the utilization of an LLM within a manuscript necessitates comprehensive documentation within the Methods section (or an appropriate substitute section in the absence of a dedicated Methods section).

Reference list:

Please provide a reference list with the bibliographic details of the cited books, book chapters, or journal articles. The list should only include works that have been published or accepted for publication. Personal communications and unpublished works should only be mentioned in the text or the footnotes.

Reference list entries should be alphabetized by the last names of the first author of each work.

If available, please always include DOIs as full DOI links in your reference list (e.g. “https://doi.org/abc”).

Journal article

Schwarze J (2000) Der Staat als Adressat des europäischen Wettbewerbsrechts. EuZW 11: 613–618

Article by DOI

Cheng, ECM, Courtenay SM (2006) Board composition, regulatory regime and voluntary disclosure. Int J Account 41:262-289. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.intacc.2006.07.001

Book

Enchelmaier S (1997) Europäische Wettbewerbspolitik im Oligopol. Nomos, Baden-Baden

Book chapter

Hulle K van, Tas L van der (2001) European Union-individual accounts. In: Ordelheide D, KPMG (eds), Transnational accounting, 2nd edn. Palgrave, Basingstoke, pp 772–826

Online document

Deutscher Bundestag (2009) Plenarprotokoll 16/222. http://www.bundestag.de/bic/plenarprotokolle/pp_pdf/16222.pdf. Accessed 18 May 2009