Submissions

Author Guidelines

Ágora para la Educación Física y el Deporte (Agora for Physical Education and Sport) is an open access journal that publishes peer reviewed articles. It appears once a year. The journal doesn’t apply any cost to authors who can submit their articles during the whole year, except in August.

1. WHERE TO SEND THE ARTICLES?

Authors interested in publishing in Ágora para la Educación Física y el deporte should send their papers through this website.

When submitting an article through this website, in the "Step 3. Introduction of submission metadata", do not forget to indicate your name and email address, and title of the article, keywords and abstracts in Spanish and English. To do this, select the "Spanish" language in the box that appears at the top of the page and include the data in Spanish; then, select the English language in the same box and enter data in English. You must also fill the box "Affliation", indicating the name and mailing address of your institution and your academic category.

2. PEER REVIEW

The manuscripts will be reviewed by two blind referees. The reviews are anonymous for authors and reviewers. In this sense, all clues to the identity of the authors must be eliminated throughout the manuscript. Based on the referees’ reports, the decision will be communicated to the first author and, where appropriate, the changes suggested.

3. PAPERS’ BASIC FEATURES AND REQUIREMENTS

Template: It’s available in this link, agoraefyd-template

Extension: Articles should be no more than 8.000 words; this limit includes abstracts, references, tables, footnotes, endnotes, etc. In any case, whenever the theme or focus of a manuscript so advises, it may be authorized to exceed said limit.

Title: In Spanish and English (plus the manuscript language, if other).

Abstract: No more than 250 words, in Spanish and English (plus the manuscript language, if other).

Key words: Maximum five terms, in Spanish and English (plus the manuscript language, if other).

Format: Word for Windows. Type and size: Times New Roman, 12; spacing: simple.

Style: A good research and a dense academic essay improve if they are exposed clearly and simply. Criticism of ideas can be done without belittling others.

Structure: Nowadays, IMRD is the canonical pattern. However, we think that it might be works that do not fit into that format.

Tables, graphs and figures: Tables should be numbered before its title. The same applies for graphs and figures.

References and author citations: According to APA7 rules. For instance, depending on the case, (Elias, 1987), (Elias and Dunning, 1987; Varela, 2000), (Elias, 1987, p. 32), Elias (1987, p. 32). If several works by the same author were published in the same year, they should be differentiated by letters (a, b, c, etc.) following the year of publication.

When there are two authors, cite them both, always using the 'and'. Use et al. in all citations of a work with three or more authors, provided there is no ambiguity regarding the source.

When there is more than one works cited, order them alphabetically, separated by semicolons.

Quotes of less than 40 words will be inserted within a paragraph and will be highlighted by quotation marks.

    Curabitur "hendrerit nisi vel ante lobortis convallis” (Sparkes and Maher, 1991, p. 23).

If the quotation has 40 words or more, it will be written in an independent paragraph, it will go without quotation marks and with an indentation on the left side of 0.75 cm.

Others: If possible, avoid footnotes.

 4. BIBLIOGRAPHY (REFERENCES)

All sources cited in the text must appear in the reference list at the end of the document. Listed in full in alphabetic order at the end of the paper and limited to the works mentioned in the text. APA7 rules should be followed, as in these examples:

Books

Bordo, Susan (2003). Unbearable weight: Feminism, Western culture, and the body. University of California Press.

Molnar, Gyozo and Kelly, John (2013). Sport, Exercise and Social Theory: An introduction. Routledge.

-If the book is published online:

Panza, Marco (2019). Números: elementos de matemáticas para filósofos. Universidad Del Valle. https://www.reddebibliotecas.org.co/.

-When referring to a doctoral thesis:

Manrique Gómez, Adrian Smith (2013). Gentrificación de La Candelaria (Bogotá D.C). Agentes y estrategias intervinientes [Thesis]. http://bdigital.unal.edu.co/11605/.

Book chapter

Evans, John and Davies, Brian (2004). Pedagogy, symbolic control, identity and health. In John Evans, Brian Davies and Jan Wright (Eds.), Body knowledge and control. Studies in the sociology of physical education and health (pp. 3-18). Routledge.

Articles, one author

Barnacle, Robyn (2009). Gut Instinct: The body and learning. Educational Philosophy and Theory, 41(1), 22-33. DOI: https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1111/j.1469-5812.2008.00473.x

Articles, several authors

García-Liste, Nerea; Fernandez-Lasa, Uxue y Usabiaga, Oidui (2022). Oportunidades de inclusión en el deporte. Estudio de caso de un deportista con parálisis cerebral. Ágora para la Educación Física y el Deporte, 24, 184-206. DOI: https://doi.org/10.24197/aefd.24.2022.184-206

(Do not abbreviate the title of the journal.)

Articles from online journals

Sparkes, Andrew, C. (1996). Recordando los cuerpos de los profesores: momentos desde el mundo de la Educación Física. Revista de Educación, 311, 101-122. Retrieved from: https://dialnet.unirioja.es/servlet/articulo?codigo=19110