Sports Business Journal - Guide for Authors

SBJ Instructions for Authors

Thank you for choosing to submit your paper to us. Before submitting your manuscript, you must read and follow the guidelines below. These instructions ensure we have everything required so your paper can move through peer review, production, and publication smoothly. Please take the time to read and follow them as closely as possible, as doing so will ensure your paper matches the journal’s requirements. Manuscripts should be submitted online at https://sbj.alzahra.ac.ir/contacts?_action=loginForm.

Peer Review and Ethics

SBJ is committed to peer-review integrity and upholding the highest standards of review. Once the editor has assessed your paper's suitability, it will be double-blind peer-reviewed by independent, anonymous expert referees. Because a blind review process is used to evaluate manuscripts, all clues to the author's identity must be eliminated throughout the manuscript. Ensure that all references to the author and other publications by the author are referenced as “author” and not by name. The reference list should not include these references. The first page of the manuscript should not include author names or affiliations, but it should consist of the paper's title and the submission date.

Please note that this journal only publishes manuscripts in English. Please use the American spelling style consistently throughout your manuscript.

SBJ Editing Services

We provide free editing services for your manuscript.

Article classification

Sports Business Journal accepts the following types of articles:

Research Paper
Case Study
Short article
Review article
Literature review

Preparing Your Paper

Formatting and Templates

Article files should be provided in Microsoft Word format. Word templates are available for this journal. Please save the template to your hard drive, ready for use.

Article length/word count

Manuscript Structure: title page; abstract; introduction; theoretical background or literature review; method; results; managerial implications; conclusion; acknowledgements; declaration of interest statement; references; appendices (as appropriate); table(s); figures.
A manuscript paper should have at least 5000 words and not exceed 8,000 words, all-inclusive (reference lists, tables, figures). Meta-synthesis or Systematic review can have a 10,000-word count.

Structured abstract

All submissions must include a structured abstract following the format outlined below.

These four sub-headings and their accompanying explanations must always be included:

Purpose
Design/methodology/approach
Findings
Originality

It should contain a structured abstract of 250 words. It should have a structured abstract of 300 words in English and 350 words in Persian (exact translation of the English abstract).

Note that:

Title fonts in English (Times New Romans 14), abstract text fonts in English (Times New Romans 10), full-text fonts of the manuscript (Times New Romans 11) as well as headings (Times New Romans Bold 12), and subheadings (Times New Romans Italic 11).
Title fonts in Persian (B Titr 14) and abstract text fonts in Persian (B Nazanin 10).

References

All references in your manuscript must be formatted using EndNote software based on APA7th styles.

Note: Dear authors, please attach the manuscript’s Endnote Library during submission. For more guidance, you can refer to save a Backup of Your Endnote Library in the Guide for Authors section.

The bibliography of references text font should be (Times New Roman 10).

The number of references in each manuscript should be between 40 and 50. Meta-synthesis or Systematic review manuscripts are excepted. However, sending the list, names, and complete details of the articles used for review in a table as a supplementary file is necessary.

References examples:

Journal article

Memari, Z., Rafei Boldaji, S., & Pouyandekia, M. (2021). How is the Football Schools Franchise Using a Valuable Approach to Revenue-Generating Capacity in Iranian Football Clubs? Sports Business Journal, 1(1), 31-44. https://doi.org/10.22051/sbj.2021.36864.1008

Book

Corbin, J., & Strauss, A. (2008). Basics of Qualitative Research: Techniques and Procedures for Developing Grounded Theory. SAGE Publications. https://books.google.com/books? id=0TI8Ugvy2Z4C

Book chapter

Blase, K., Van Dyke, M., Fixsen, D. L., & Bailey, F. (2012). Implementation science: Key concepts, themes, and evidence for practitioners in educational psychology. In Handbook of Implementation Science for Psychology in Education (pp. 13-34). https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9781139013949.004

Conference proceeding

Schreiner, R., Daniel, J. o., Junginger , C., Hauser, T., & Hoener, O. (2017, 31 May-2 June). Soccer coaches’ education within the German tid program: perceptions of the quality and need for development. World Conference on Science and Soccer - Rennes, Frence. https://wcss-rennes2017.sciencesconf.org/data/pages/Proceedings_WCSS_17.pdf

Dissertation

Kim, J. (2008). An Analysis of Talent Development in Korean and German Football Seoul National University]. https://www.semanticscholar.org/paper/An-Analysis-of-Talent-Development-in-Korean-and-Kim/5fff3eeafe4f5a4465bc1fbb0714ff7367392d55

Print Newspaper Article

Grohmann, K. (2014, July 14). Investment, youth planning are secret of Germany success. Reuters.

Blog Post

Amigone, M. (2015, June 23). Dutch Soccer Coach Jan Pruijn Shares Secrets from His Years Training Youth Players. ACIS Educational Tours. https://acis.com/blog/dutch-soccer-coach-jan-pruijn-shares-secrets-from-his-years-training-youth-players/

Report

Chesler, D. (2013). 2001-2013 The Evolution of Youth Academy Programs (Technical Director Course - International Academy Case Study, November, Issue. http://resources.ussoccer.com/n7v8b8j3/cds/Email/131106-TECHNICAL-SUMMARY-ICS-GERMANY-Chesler-v.1.pdf

Webpage

Fuller, J. (2020, August 5). Football Coaching Courses: How to become qualified? Pitch Hero Ltd. https://blog.pitchero.com/football-coaching-courses

Please use this Reference guide when preparing your paper.

An EndNote output style is also available to assist you.

Checklist: What to Include

Author details. All authors of a manuscript should include their full name and affiliation on the cover page of the manuscript. Where available, please also include ORCIDs and social media handles (Facebook, Twitter, or LinkedIn). One author will need to be identified as the corresponding author, with their email address normally displayed in the article PDF (depending on the journal) and the online article. Authors’ affiliations are the affiliations where the research was conducted. If any of the named co-authors moves affiliation during the peer-review process, the new affiliation can be given as a footnote. Please note that no changes to affiliation can be made after your paper is accepted.
Figures. Figures should be high quality (1200 dpi for line art, 600 dpi for grayscale, and 300 dpi for color, at the correct size). Figures should be supplied in one of our preferred file formats: EPS, PS, JPEG, TIFF, or Microsoft Word (DOC or DOCX) files are acceptable for figures that have been drawn in Word.
Tables. Tables should present new information rather than duplicating what is in the text. Readers should be able to interpret the table without reference to the text. Please supply editable files.
Equations. If you are submitting your manuscript as a Word document, please ensure that equations are editable.

To register for an ORCID iD, you can click on this link and go to the ORCID registration guide.

Copyright Options

Other guidelines are below:

Click here to download Title Pages (with authors' affiliation).

Click here to insert or remove a hyperlink in Microsoft Word.