Author Guidelines
The journal "Sportyvnyi Visnyk Prydniprovya" considers original research and review articles for publication in the field of physical culture and sports, covering the following areas:
- Theoretical and methodological aspects of athlete training in Olympic, non-Olympic, and Paralympic sports;
- Physical education for various population groups;
- Psychological, pedagogical, sociological, and philosophical aspects of physical culture and sports;
- Historical aspects of the development of physical culture and sports.
The journal publishes studies that highlight educational practices in all relevant contexts, including but not limited to school physical education, club sports, and active leisure programs.
The journal recommends articles that include a pedagogical experiment, where the researcher actively attempts to change the situation, circumstances, or experiences of subjects (manipulations) that may lead to changes in behavior or outcomes for the study participants.
The journal considers the use of questionnaire/survey methods as one stage of a pedagogical experiment. In such a pedagogical experiment, researchers actively influence study participants to test a hypothesis.
The journal publishes original empirical and theoretical articles, review articles, and preliminary research reports.
Empirical articles should be written concisely, following a scientific format (Introduction, Materials and Methods [including participants, instruments, and procedures, statistical analysis], Results, Discussion, Conclusions, and References).
Theoretical papers should draw upon existing research literature and critically analyze selected models and/or theories, reporting empirical results only if they are directly relevant to the theory.
A review article should critically evaluate material that has already been published. The article's purpose is to analyze, assess, and synthesize existing knowledge, rather than merely stating what is already known. Review articles should consist of the following sections:
- Problem definition;
- Brief summary of previous research;
- Explanation of the subject matter, controversies, problems, and suggestions for further research.
Preliminary research reports should present findings from ongoing empirical studies and should be written in the same format as empirical papers described at the beginning of this section; however, these reports should be shorter than a standard paper.
- Conditions for Article Publication
A submitted article must:
- Be relevant, demonstrate novelty, include problem statements (tasks), describe the main research results obtained by the author, and present conclusions;
- Comply with the formatting rules.
By submitting an article for publication, the author(s) thereby express their consent to the online publication of its full text and agree to the recommendations of the World Association of Medical Editors (WAME) and the standards of COPE (Committee on Publication Ethics) regarding the principles of scientific publication ethics.
Submitting a manuscript implies that it has not been previously published, is not under consideration for publication elsewhere, and, if accepted, will not be published in another venue in the same form in English or any other language.
- General Principles for Manuscript Preparation
Article Writing Style. In-text Citation
Manuscripts should be developed in accordance with the general style guidelines outlined in the "Uniform Requirements for Manuscripts Submitted to Biomedical Journals" publication and the EASE (European Association of Science Editors) Guidelines for Authors and Translators of Scientific Articles to be Published in English.
The goal of scientific writing is the precise and clear expression of ideas and research information. It is advisable to avoid vague terminology and overly verbose prose.
It is not advisable to include multiple statements in one sentence. Simple sentences with active voice should be used. In a single sentence, it is not recommended to use complex sentences, conjunctions, or words and phrases connected by "and."
It is recommended to use direct and short sentences, up to 15-20 words in length. A single sentence should ideally formulate only one idea.
The editorial board reserves the right to make any final adjustments to manuscripts to ensure consistency within the journal.
Manuscripts must comply with general requirements:
Text font: Times New Roman, 10 pt, 1.0 line spacing,
Margins: 2 cm on all sides,
Length: 3000 words or more,
Languages: Ukrainian, English.
In-text Citation – Vancouver Style (Numbered)
In Vancouver style, each reference is assigned a number that is used for citation. Even if the author is not mentioned in your text, the number must still be used. The original number assigned to a reference is used every time that reference is cited in the text. The first reference cited will be numbered as [1] in the text, the second as [2], and so on. If you refer to reference [1] again later in the text, you cite it using the number [1].
Citing Multiple Sources Simultaneously
When citing more than one source simultaneously, the preferred method is to indicate each document number separately, placing commas between each reference:
Example: Predominantly [1, 2] (we recommend a maximum of 2 references; exceptionally, 3).
Title Page Requirements
The title page must include the following information:
- Article title (the most important identifier of a scientific article; should also include information about the research area);
- Full names (Surname, First Name, Patronymic) of all authors;
- Author affiliations (institution, higher education establishment; city, country). If authors belong to several different institutions, superscript numbers should be used to link author names to their respective institutions;
- Full address, email address, and ORCID of each author.
The information provided on the title page should be presented in both Ukrainian and English.
The corresponding author – the author entrusted with correspondence with the journal – must be specified separately.
Authors should include information about responsibility in the manuscript, defining each participant's contribution. Authorship should be considered if you have made a substantial contribution to the conception, acquisition, analysis, or interpretation of data, drafted or revised the work, approved the final manuscript, and are ready to take responsibility (ICMJE criteria).
Individuals who only assist with data collection, statistical analysis, technical contributions, data entry, or those who received grants or are departmental heads, should be acknowledged but cannot be considered authors unless they meet the ICMJE criteria.
We suggest the following format (please use initials to refer to each participant's contribution):
A – Study design;
B – Data collection;
C – Statistical analysis;
D – Manuscript preparation;
E – Funding acquisition.
Example:
Nataliia Vasylivna Moskalenko1ABDE, Olha Serhiivna Mykytchyk1ABCD
1Educational and Scientific Institute "Prydniprovska State Academy of Physical Culture and Sports" of Ukrainian State University of Science and Technologies, Dnipro, Ukraine
Author Information
Nataliya Vasilivna Moskalenko
Educational and Scientific Institute "Prydniprovsk State Academy of Physical Culture and Sport" of the Ukrainian State University of Science and Technologies, Dnipro, Ukraine
Dnipro, Naberezhna Peremohy Street, 10, 49094, Ukraine
E-mail: moskalenkonatali2016@gmail.com
https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9162-5206
Olha Sergiivna Mykytchyk
Educational and Scientific Institute "Prydniprovsk State Academy of Physical Culture and Sport" of the Ukrainian State University of Science and Technologies
Dnipro, Naberezhna Peremohy Street, 10, 49094, Ukraine
E-mail: molga.0604@gmail.com
https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8656-0943
Co-author names will not be published if their contributions are not specified.
It is recommended to link authors to their contributions using alphabetical superscripts.
Abstract
An abstract is a concise form of presenting a scientific text. Its purpose is to capture the reader's attention and spark interest by conveying the essence of the research using minimal linguistic means.
Requirements for Abstract Structure and Content.
- Informativeness and Substance: The abstract should generally represent the article's content. Avoid using generic phrases, irrelevant details, or universally known statements. Background information (history of the issue) should only be included if directly related to elucidating the research objective.
- Originality: Avoid direct repetition of any fragments from the main text. The article title should not be duplicated in the abstract.
- Clarity, Logical Flow, and Cohesion.
- Conciseness: Abstract for article submitted to the journal must be at least 1800 characters in length (excluding spaces).
Following the abstract, Keywords (5 to 6 words, not from the article title) should be provided.
The abstract and keywords must be submitted in both Ukrainian and English.
Introduction
Briefly present the problem, specifically highlighting the authors' level of knowledge about the problem at the outset of the discussion. It's important to consider that one indicator of knowledge about the problem is the ratio of cited sources by domestic authors to references from English-language journals. Another indicator is references to the authors' previous research on the article's topic. In the analysis of publications related to the article's topic, it is essential to demonstrate: what these researchers succeeded in solving and what they did not. Unresolved problems by other authors should be highlighted.
The Introduction must contain the HYPOTHESIS.
Research Aim (or Objective)
Following the hypothesis, formulate the AIM (or OBJECTIVE) OF THE RESEARCH.
Materials and Methods
The Materials and Methods section should be concise yet sufficiently detailed to allow other researchers to replicate the study. This section should comprise three subsections (you may add other subsections if necessary):
1. Participants. Please specify the number and age of participants. It should be noted that informed consent was obtained from all participants for their involvement in this experiment.
2. Procedure (Study Organization). This subsection provides the reader with a brief overview of each step performed during the research. This summary should be concise, accurate, and logical. Do not overload the reader with excessive details. Sufficient information must be provided for the reader to follow the methodology. Please indicate the instruments, equipment, and tests used.
3. Statistical Analysis. Under the subheading Statistical Analysis, authors must explain which statistical tests were used to analyze their data and provide the justification for using these tests.
Care must be taken to ensure that:
a) All tests are listed in the Materials and Methods section within the statistical analysis subsection,
b) All listed tests were indeed applied in the study.
From this section, every reader should be able to understand which specific test was used for each data comparison presented in the Results section. At the end of the statistical analysis, authors must indicate the level of significance and the statistical software used. We draw the authors' attention to the fact that merely listing the research methods used is not accepted by the editorial board. It is necessary to clearly describe the set of observations or experimental methods used and the organization of the study, including criteria such as age, gender, the necessity of their use depending on clearly defined circumstances, randomization, and blinding of participants. The data collection protocol, procedures, parameters studied, measurement methods, and apparatus must be described in sufficient detail to allow other scientists to reproduce the results. References to the methods used must be provided. References and a brief description of the methods that were utilized should be given. Lesser-known and significantly modified methods must be described in detail. Justifications for their use, along with an assessment of their limitations, should be provided.
Statistical methods must be described in detail to allow for verification of the presented results. It is necessary to list the criteria used and the methodology for determining each criterion in the specific data analysis. This should be reiterated in the "Results" section.
Statistical values should be presented alongside the data in the text, as well as in tables and figures. It is necessary to present exact p-values, with three decimal places.
Providing information about experimental participants requires their official consent. Research involving patients and volunteers requires informed consent, documented within the manuscript text. Where there is any unavoidable risk of privacy violation – for example, in clinical photographs or detailed circumstances – written patient consent for data publication is required, and a copy must be available to the journal.
Information about the approval of the research and its results by an ethics committee should also be presented. When children participate in experiments, written consent from their parents must be obtained and noted in this section.
Reports on human experiments must indicate whether procedures were conducted in accordance with the ethical standards of the responsible committee on human experimentation (institutional or regional) or the Helsinki Declaration of 2008.
The editorial board reserves the right to request any raw data from authors at any stage in the review or publication process, including after publication. Refusal to provide the requested information may lead to publication delays or rejection.
Results
Results should be presented concisely and justifiably. Limit the number of tables and figures (graphs) to only those necessary to explain the argument of the paper, and evaluate their necessity carefully.
Duplication of data in both graphical and tabular forms is prohibited.
You must state the number of observations and reports, as well as any exclusions or losses of observations, such as participants who dropped out of the study.
Results should be presented in a logical sequence within the text, as well as in tables and figures that are consistent with the text through supporting remarks.
Do not repeat all data from tables or graphs in the text. You should emphasize only important observations and show trends.
Discussion (or Discussion of Results)
The Discussion section should include an interpretation of the study results, as well as results considered in the context of findings from other studies described in the literature.
Do not repeat detailed data or other material from the "Introduction" or "Results" section.
You must include in the discussion questions arising from the conclusions, limitations on the scope of the findings, and prospects for future research.
The discussion should contrast your results with those of other studies, especially those cited in the text. You should demonstrate which studies by other authors confirm the validity of your research and highlight the novelty of your results.
The length of the "Discussion" section should be equal to or greater than the text portion of the "Results" section.
Conclusions
Conclusions should not repeat the results. Instead, they should reflect what follows from the results. They must also be linked to the aims of the research.
New hypotheses can be formulated if justified; include recommendations if necessary. Avoid unqualified statements and conclusions that are not fully supported by the obtained data.
Highlights are used to present particularly important information that the authors wish to emphasize.
Acknowledgments
All individuals who do not meet authorship criteria should be acknowledged. This includes, for example, technical assistants, research assistants, data entry operators, or departmental heads who provide only general support. Their role should be described. Financial and other material support must be disclosed and acknowledged. If the research was conducted within the context of a state budget theme, this must be specified.
Conflict of Interest
This section addresses conflicts of interest for individuals directly or indirectly involved in the publication of the article or the information contained within it. Otherwise, state: "The author(s) declare that there is no conflict of interest."
References
Your Reference List must contain more than 20 references and should be formatted in Vancouver style.
The list must be numbered. References selected for publication should be chosen based on their importance, accessibility, and potential for further reading. The reference list should primarily include citations to books and articles from periodicals (journals and collections) that are indexed in international scientometric databases (Scopus and Web of Science).
The total citation of previous publications by the authors of the submitted manuscript should not exceed 15%.
References cited in tables and figure captions must be numbered in the sequence they are cited in the main text. References listed in the glossary should be numbered starting from the last citation number used in the text. If an article has a DOI, it must be included in the reference.
Specifics of Vancouver Style:
- Sources in the reference list should be arranged not alphabetically, but in the order they were first cited in the text.
- When formatting references, quotation marks and italics are not used. Article titles, conference abstracts, and chapter titles are simply separated by periods. Capital letters are used exclusively for proper nouns and the first word in titles.
- Periods are NOT placed after initials.
- The use of conjunctions like "and" or the "&" symbol is untypical for this style.
- If a publication has a DOI, it must be included. Month names in access/publication dates, etc., may be abbreviated (according to the language rules of a specific country).
Example:
Andriushyna L, Kakovkina O, Rodina Y, Tymofieiev O. Application of resource recovery strategies for vitality in challenging conditions of educational process participants. Sportyvnyi Visnyk Prydniprovia [Internet]. 2025Apr.12 [cited 2025Jul.3];(1):4-14. https://doi.org/10.32540/2071-1476-2025-1-004. Available from: https://journals.uran.ua/index.php/2071-1476/article/view/333354
The References section must adhere to the format of the Uniform Requirements for Manuscripts Submitted to Biomedical Journals.
For references to literature published in Ukrainian (or other languages using Cyrillic characters), entries should be transliterated into Latin script.
Transliteration of the Ukrainian language is recommended in accordance with Cabinet of Ministers of Ukraine Resolution No. 55 of January 27, 2010, "On Streamlining the Transliteration of the Ukrainian Alphabet into Latin Script," using online services such as https://translit.kh.ua/?lat&passport or https://slovnyk.ua/translit.php.
For the transliteration of the Russian language, it is recommended to use the websites https://translit.net/ru/zagranpasport/ or http://translit-online.ru/pasport.html.
If a publication has a DOI, it must be included.
Example:
Moskalenko NV, Otkydach VS, Korchahin MV. Vplyv zaniat viiskovo-sportyvnym bahatoborstvom na stan zdorovia kursantiv VVNZ. Sportyvnyi visnyk Prydniprovia. 2020;(1):245-351. https://doi.org/10.32540/2071-1476-2019-1-345
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