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Referees and submissions. The International Journal of the History of Sport is a refereed journal. Articles submitted to The International Journal of the History of Sport should be original contributions and should not be under consideration for any other publication at the same time. If another version of the article is under consideration by another publication, or has been, or will be published elsewhere, authors should clearly indicate this at the time of submission. Each manuscript should be submitted in triplicate. Articles should be typewritten on A4/Letter paper, on one side only, double-spaced and with ample margins. All pages should be numbered consecutively. Manuscripts and editorial correspondence should be sent to Professor J.A.Mangan, 12 Streche Road, Swanage, Dorset BH19 1NF.

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Length. Articles should not normally exceed 8000 words in length inclusive of the notes.

Abstract. An abstract is required and should not exceed 150 words in length.

Author note. Details of the author's institutional affiliation, full address and other contact information should be included on a separate cover sheet. The custom is without titles, one forename plus surname, but authors may vary this.

Format. Following acceptance for publication, articles should be submitted on high-density 3fi inch disks (IBM PC or Macintosh compatible) in rich text format (.RTF).

Spelling. British spelling should be used throughout as well as –z– rather than –s– endings (organize rather than organise). Jargon is to be avoided.

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Notes and references. The journal uses Chicago Humanities style of referencing, with a reference list. This uses short endnotes, with the full reference in a List of References. This is a system that allows for extensive endnotes, and references to archive sources, but it can consume a great deal of space.

Endnotes. Please use no more than 50 endnotes; neighbouring references should be consolidated into a single endnote.

In the text, note reference numbers should appear as square bracketed figures following any punctuation, for example. [1]

At the end, the notes will read:

[1] Baker, Sports in the Western World, 64.

[2] Brailsford, ‘Sporting Days in Eighteenth-Century England', 45–48.

Reference List. The reference list should include only material cited in the endnotes. Therefore, if the author wishes to include in a reference list some material of ‘further reading' that the article has not specifically cited, then this should be done by a special endnote. The reference list contains works to which a reader could reasonably be expected to make reference, mainly books and articles. Do not include websites, newspapers, archive records etc.; the endnote will suffice for these.

Reference List is in alphabetical order of surname, as follows:

Brailsford, D., ‘Sporting Days in Eighteenth-Century England'. Journal of Sports History IX, 2 (1982): 45–48.

Killanin, M. and J. Rodda eds. The Olympic Games: 80 Years of People, Events and Records. London: Book Club Associates, 1976.

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