ISSN 1415-9805 printed version
ISSN 1980-6574 on-line version

INSTRUCTIONS TO AUTHORS

 

Target and policy

1. Target and Policy

Motriz. Revista de Educação Física. UNESP. It is a quarter journal, arbitrated and index-linked, published by the Physical Education Department, Bioscience Institute, from the campus of Rio Claro, São Paulo State University, state of São Paulo, Brazil.

In the Table of Knowledge Areas from CNPq it is classified in Sciences of Health - 4.09.00.00-2 - Physical Education.

From 2007 on it started to be published exclusively in electronic format in SEER System.

Motriz has as a mission the divulgation of the scientific production in Human Movementand correlative areas, aiming to contribute to the discussion and the knowledge development in these areas.

Motriz accepts the submission of manuscripts from professionals and researchers of all areas involved in Human Movement Sciences, such as: Physical Education and Sports; Physiotherapy; Special Education; Sports Psychology; Biomechanics; Biodynamics; Sports Training; Physical Activity; Morphology and Health; Control and Coordination Motor Skills; Body, Modernity and Post-Modernity; Exercise Physiology and Endocrine-Metabolic Physiology; School Physical Education; Emotion and Movement; Professional Formation and Work Market; Alternative Movement Practices among others, as long as the themes are relevant to this target.
Motriz adopts the philosophy of "open access", permitting the free and unrestricted access to its content.
It also adopts the policy of self-filing through the on-line submission of the originals from its own work author(s).

From 2008 on all the submissions of the originals must be posted in SEER System. Therefore, they won't be received by mail anymore.

ON-LINE SUBMISSION PROCESS
The author must register his/her data and a password in the system to have access to his/her area as an "author", where he/she should post his/her manuscript.
With that access password he/she can follow all the submission flux, edit the text to consider possible recommendations by the editors and/or appraisers, until the publishing of the fascicle.

The originals must be posted by the authors in MSWord and will be converted and published in PDF format after the final version editing.

The limit size of each file to be submitted is 100 MB.

 

Manuscript configuration and preparation

2. Sections

The submissions must be posted to one of the following Sections:

2.1. Originals Articles: They are manuscripts resulting from scientific researches that show investigating original data based on practical or theoretical ones about discoveries related to experimental or observational aspects of human movement, medical, biochemist, psychological and/or social features, by using scientific methodology.

They must include descriptive analysis and/or inferences about its own data. The structure of the articles must have the following parts: Introduction, Methods, Results and Discussion. They must also have up to 30 pages, since the Cover Sheet, that includes the Title and the Authorship, and then the Abstract, Figures, Tables and References. This structure and the number of pages are also valid to the items 2.2, 2.3 and 2.4.

2.2. Updating or Divulgating Articles: They are manuscripts that refer to usually present-day information about themes of relevant interest for a specific specialty or about a new technique, for example, and that have different features from a review article.

2.3 Experience Report: They are articles that represent descriptive data, of one or more cases, by exploring a method or a problem through example(s). These manuscripts present the main features of the studied individual(s), with the indication of sex, age, etc. The researches may have been made in human-beings or animals. They must contain descriptive data, analysis about conceptual implications, descriptions of procedures or strategies of intervention, supported by evidences methodologically proper for efficacy evaluation.

2.4 Book Reviews: A critical review about a newly published book, by orienting the reader about its features and potential uses. Limited to 2 pages.

2.5 Rewarded Free Theme: Integral text(s) publication of the rewarded article(s) among all approved for oral presentation at the International Congress of Physical Education and Human Movement and São Paulo State Symposium of Physical Education.

2.6 International Congress of Physical Education and Human Movement and São Paulo State Symposium of Physical Education: This Section publishes only the summaries of the manuscripts presented at these events.

3. PEER REVIEW

The original submitted for publication in the Sections 1 to 6 is accepted for analysis by assuming that:

  • the same has not been published and is not being submitted simultaneously for publication in another journal;
  • all the people listed as authors have approved its submission to Motriz;
  • any person quoted as a personal communication source has approved the quotation;
  • the opinions given by the authors are exclusively their responsibility;
  • the formal manuscript presentation is in accordance to all the indications from the Editorial Rules.
    The Associated Editors will make a preliminary analysis with reference to the relevance and/or the adequacy of the submission for Motriz target.
    In positive case, the application of those Editorial Rules will be analyzed next, concerning either the writing or the formatting of the manuscript. In negative case, the author will be notified by e-mail, so that he/she may proceed with the right corrections. Consult: http://www.periodicos.rc.biblioteca.unesp.br/index.php/motriz/information/authors
    Motriz counts on a group of Consultants who have a great knowledge in Human Movement Sciences and correlative areas. The originals, with no authorship identification, will immediately be submitted to evaluation by 1 or 2 specialists "ad hoc". The authors will be notified about his/her submission acceptance (or rejection) by e-mail.
    It is possible to have small modifications in the text according to the Editor-in-Chief and/or the Associated Editors. Motriz is reserved the right to make some changes into the originals which are related to the normative, orthographic and grammatical order, intending to keep the idiom cult standard, respecting, however, the author(s)' style. When important modifications are necessary, the author(s) will be notified by e-mail and will be in charge of doing them. They will have to post the new version of the manuscript in the System, within the deadline assigned by it. A final edited version will be available to the author(s) in the System, while waiting for its acceptance before the on-line publication.
    All manuscript to be submitted for evaluation to be published at Motriz will necessarily have to enclose the following supplementary file(s):
  • DECLARATION signed by all the authors stating that: a) the manuscript was either no published or being submitted for publication in any other journal and b) all the authors of the manuscript agree it to be evaluated for publication at Motriz. For studies made in human beings, this DECLARATION will have to contain the item c) with all the data referring to the Ethical Committee acceptance from the Institution where the research has been done;
  • Form filled and signed by the authors with reference to the possible "Conflict of interests", that can influence the results.

    [Form Model]

    Those two files and the Authorization file, when it is applicable, in name of the author of the manuscript in order to use the Figures, Tables, etc., will have to be posted in the fourth step of the On-Line Submission Process.

    4. PRESENTATION FORMAT

    The following items must be observed:

    4.1 Idiom
    The originals must preferentially be written in Portuguese or English and exceptionally also in French, Spanish or German, according to the Associated Editors' criteria.

    4.2 Typing
    The manuscripts must be typed in fluent text, double-space, font Arial, size 12, not exceeding the number of pages proper to each Section in which the text is inserted. The page must be the size A4, with top and bottom space format of 2.5 cm left and 3cm right, necessarily containing the page number on the bottom of the page. The assigned locations for insertion of Pictures and Tables must be indicated in the text.

    4.3 Cover Sheets
    The Cover Sheets must contain the following elements in the next order:

  • An impersonal Cover Sheet containing: the Section name chosen for submission, if it is an Original Article, a Review Article, etc.; the Titles and sub-titles of the manuscript must be without abbreviations, in Portuguese and in English, and must have an abbreviated title in the text idiom for the running headline of the article pages, not exceeding 4 words.
    The Title must be concise and explainable, representing the content of the manuscript, not exceeding 10 words, in stressed lowercase. The title in English will have to be the exactly translation from the title in Portuguese.
  • A personal Cover Sheet, that is a copy of the impersonal Cover Sheet adding the complete name of the author(s), without abbreviations, the e-mail(s) and the complete data of institutional and geographical affiliation, in the manuscript submission period. The author must indicate any institutional affiliation updating if it is necessary.
    Indication of the author responsible for the mails, with editors and/or readers, following the complete postal address, including fax, telephone number and e-mail.
    Add also a paragraph recognizing any financial support, colleagues and technicians collaboration if it is appropriate.
    If it is important, the origin of the manuscript must be indicated, for example: previously presented in an event, derived from a thesis or a dissertation, data collection happened in an institution different from the one that has financed the research, and other credits and/or divulgation facts ethically necessary.

    4.4 Abstract - Keywords
    The Abstract of the manuscripts to be submitted to the Sections 1 to 4 must have the maximum of 150 words. The Abstract must be followed by 3 to 5 Keywords for indexation of the manuscript, and they must be separated by a dot between them.
    Motriz has adopted, from 2008 on, the Descriptors in Health Sciences - for the Keywords of the articles, in Portuguese and in English. The authors must research in the DeCS catalogue the Keywords in Portuguese and in English for its originals. If there are any doubts, consult the RESEARCH TIPS IN THE DeCS. If necessary, it is possible to solicit help by e-mail.
    For original articles, the Abstract must include: a brief description about the investigated problem, relevant features of the sample, method used for the data collection, results and conclusions, its implications or applications.
    The Abstract of review, updating and experience report articles must include: subjects handled in a single phrase followed by the objective, thesis or construct under analysis, used source (for example, observations made by the author, published bibliography) and conclusions.

    4.5 Abstract - Keywords
    The Abstract, in English, must be the exactly version of the text summary and must obey the same specifications for the version in Portuguese, followed by the Keywords, which are also the exactly versions of the Keywords in Portuguese.

    4.6 Subdivisions of the Text
    In all categories, the text must be structured from the titles and subtitles of its parts, centralized, without numeration. The titles must be boldfaced typed and the subtitles italic typed.

    4.7 Footnotes
    The Explicative Footnotes must be reduced to the minimum size. The Bibliographic Footnotes must not be used. They must be ordered by Arabic numeral that must be inserted at the end of the text which each note refers to.

    4.8 Figures
    The Figures, with its respective legends, must be recorded each one in a different file named as: figure1.jpg, figure2.jpg and etc. The Figures must be preferentially in JPG format (or exceptionally, in MSWord or Excel).
    The Figures 1 file must include a list of all the other figures, numbered as indicated in the text. To assure the quality of the publication, all the figures must be recorded in quality for photography. The simple Figures can't exceed the width of 8,3 cm., and the complex ones can't exceed 17,5 cm. Therefore, the author must be careful for the legends to keep the reading quality, in case of being necessary the reduction of the size.

    4.9 Tables
    The Tables, including titles and notes, must be recorded each one in a different file named as: table1.doc, table2.doc, etc.

    The Tables must be in MS Word or in Excel, whether following audio or not.
    Each table can't exceed 17,5 cm in width x 23,7 cm in length. The length of the table can't exceed 55 lines, including the title and footnote(s). For simple Tables, the limit width is 60 characters, so that it can occupy a printed column, including 3 characters of space between the columns of the table. For complex Tables, the limit is 125 characters, so that it can occupy the two columns.

    4.10 Attachments
    Attachments to manuscripts will be accepted when they contain original important information or some points that complement, illustrate and help the comprehension of the manuscript.
    Using hypermedia resources is recommended for the elaboration of the Attachments, such as, files in audio, video, animations in flash etc.

    The files of the Figures, Tables and Attachments can have up to 100 MB each one. They must be posted, as supplementary documents, to the text file of the manuscript in the fourth step of the On-Line Submission Process.

    5. RULES
    Motriz adopts the following ABNT Rules, which must be observed by the authors during the writing and format of his/her originals:

  • NBR 6022:2003 (Article);
  • NBR 6023:2002 (References);
  • NBR 6028:2003 (Summaries);
  • NBR 10520:2002 (Citations).

    5.1 Citations
    Consult: ABNT NBR 10520:2002 Informação e documentação - Citações em documentos - Apresentação. (ABNT Rule for Information and documentation - Documents Citation - Presentation)

    The surname of the authors quoted in the text must be hyperlinked to its respective references, in the following way: in MSWord, select the author's surname in the References, click on INSERT - INDICATOR, type the author's surname as "Name of the Indicator" and click on ADD. After that, select the author's surname in the text citation, click on INSERT - HYPERLINK and next "Select a location in the document" that must be the same author's surname. Click on OK , so that the author's citation hyperlink will be done for the respective Reference.
    A direct citation up to 3 lines must be delimited by double quotation marks: "Apesar da discussão..." (DERRIDA, 1967, p. 293).
    A direct citation over 3 lines must be presented in a single block, starting in a new line, text-spaced 4 cm from the left margin, with font size 10, single-spaced and without quotation marks.

  • Article citation of multiple authorship

    • If there are two authors, their surnames are shown in all citations: The method proposed by Ulrich e Thelen (1979) or: This method was initially proposed for the study of the automatic gear (ULRICH; THELEN, 1979).
    If there are three authors or more, only the first author's surname is shown, followed by "et al." and the year: Mattos et al. (1994) have found out that...
    If there is a citation of another citation, that is, a discussed manuscript is used as a source in another one with no reading of the original manuscript (for example, a Lima's study quoted by Silva, 1982), the citation must be:
    Lima (apud SILVA, 1982) adds that these students [...] Indicate in the reference only the consulted source, in this case, Silva's manuscript.

    You should quote old re-edited manuscripts by putting a bar between the two dates: Campbell (1790/1946).

    The quotation of a personal communication must be avoided for not offering recoverable information by conventional means. If it is inevitable, it must appear in the text but not in the Reference section, by mentioning the available data in footnotes: B. D. Ulrich (verbal information)1
    On the page footnote: 1- Lecture made by Ulrich at the International Congress of Movement Science, in Rio Claro, SP, Brazil, on May 5, 1995.

    5.2 References
    Consult: ABNT NBR 6023:2002 Informação e documentação - Referências - Elaboração. (ABNT Rule for Information and documentation - References - Preparation)
    In the References all the names must be listed, so that all of them can be recovered by the search mechanisms.
    To arrange the References, use the alphabetical order, letter by letter, for the entries. Two or more manuscripts of a same author must be arranged the increasing date order.
    Single authorship manuscripts precede multiple authorship ones, by obeying the quantity order of collaborators to the first author.
    Identical multiple authorship manuscripts must be arranged in the increasing date order.
    Manuscripts with the same authorship and the same date must be arranged by the title, by putting a, b, c, after the dates for differentiation (1979a). In the arrangement of alphabetical order, if the first word is an article or a pronoun, it must not be considered.
    Even if the author's surname is repeated, it must be retyped and not substituted by a hyphen, so that it can be recovered by the search mechanisms.
    In the References the space must be single and double-space between them. The font size is 12, normal paragraph, with no text space, aligned with the left margin of the text, no justified.
    The references of books, thesis, events, articles, etc., whose integral texts are available on-line, must provide this link active (and/or the respective DOI hyperlinked, if it is an electronic periodical).

     

    Sending manuscripts

    The author must register his/her data and a password in the system to have access to his/her area as an "author", where he/she must inset his/her manuscript.
    With this access password He/she can follow all the flux of the submission, the evaluation, the text edition to consider possible recommendations by the editors and/or appraisers, until the publication of the fascicle.
    The originals must be posted in MSWord by the authors and, after the final version editing, they will be converted and published in PDF format.

     

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