Editorial Policy
The journal Management in Sport is dedicated to publishing works in the fields of sports management, physical education and sports, as well as related biomedical, humanities, social, and natural sciences. The journal features previously unpublished scientific research results and new empirical findings.
The journal publishes original, previously unpublished manuscripts, including scientific, professional, and review articles, essays, debates, book reviews, thematic bibliographies, patents, reports, news about scientific and professional gatherings, and similar documents relevant to the field of sports management and physical education and sports.
Management in Sport operates as an open-access journal. Manuscripts must be written in Serbian and/or English, accompanied by abstracts in English (for papers written in Serbian) or Serbian (for papers written in English). The journal is published biannually.
EDITORIAL RESPONSIBILITIES
The editorial board of Management in Sport makes the final decision regarding which manuscripts will be published. In making this decision, the editorial board adheres to the journal’s editorial policy and complies with legal regulations concerning defamation, copyright infringement, and plagiarism.
The editorial board reserves the discretionary right to evaluate and reject submitted manuscripts if they do not meet the prescribed substantive and formal criteria. Under normal circumstances, authors will be informed of the editorial decision within one month of manuscript submission.
The editorial board must avoid any conflict of interest concerning the manuscripts under consideration. Should a conflict of interest arise involving one or more members, these individuals will be excluded from the peer-review and decision-making process. Editors and members of the editorial board are obligated to declare any potential conflicts of interest promptly.
Judgments regarding manuscripts must be made solely based on their content, free from racial, gender, religious, ethnic, or political biases. Editors and editorial board members may not use unpublished material from submitted manuscripts for their research without explicit written permission from the authors. Furthermore, ideas and information presented in manuscripts must be treated as confidential and not used for personal gain.
The editorial board must take reasonable steps to ensure that the identities of reviewers remain anonymous to authors before, during, and after the review process and that the identities of authors remain anonymous to reviewers until the review process is completed.
PEER REVIEW PROCESS AND REVIEWER RESPONSIBILITIES
Management in Sport employs a double-blind peer-review process for all submissions. Each manuscript is reviewed by at least two independent reviewers who remain anonymous to each other. Reviewers are selected based on their expertise in the relevant field and must not be affiliated with the same institution as the authors or have recently co-authored publications with them. Suggestions from authors regarding specific reviewers are not accepted.
The purpose of peer review is to assist the editorial board in making decisions about the acceptance or rejection of a manuscript and to enhance the quality of the manuscript through constructive feedback.
Reviewers are chosen at the editor’s discretion based on their expertise in the manuscript’s subject area. During the main review stage, the editor forwards the manuscript to two reviewers specializing in the relevant field. The review form includes specific questions to guide reviewers in assessing the manuscript. Reviewers must also provide observations and suggestions for improving the manuscript.
The identities of reviewers remain confidential throughout and beyond the review process. If necessary, the editor may request additional information from authors (e.g., primary data) to make informed decisions about the manuscript's scientific contribution. Reviewers and editors must treat such information as confidential and not use it for personal gain.
Reviewers must provide an objective assessment of the manuscript within the specified timeframe. Their evaluations should be clear, well-reasoned, and supported by evidence. Reviewers assess manuscripts based on their alignment with the journal’s profile, significance and usefulness of the content, appropriateness of methods employed, scientific value, style, and overall presentation.
The editorial board ensures the quality of reviews and may seek additional evaluations if concerns arise regarding the objectivity or quality of a review.
Members of the editorial board, guest editors, and reviewers may submit their manuscripts to Management in Sport. However, authors involved in the publishing process will be excluded from reviewing or deciding on their own submissions, and the review process will be overseen by another editorial board member.
AUTHOR RESPONSIBILITIES
Authors must guarantee that their manuscript represents an original contribution, has not been previously published, and is not under consideration for publication elsewhere. Simultaneous submission to multiple journals constitutes an ethical violation and will result in immediate rejection.
If the manuscript has previously been reviewed by another journal, authors are encouraged to disclose the outcome of that review process, including how reviewer comments were addressed or why certain suggestions were not implemented. Providing this information may assist the editorial board in selecting reviewers.
Authors are required to acknowledge any research projects or events that contributed to the manuscript’s development. This includes citing project names, funding codes, and details about conferences or presentations where preliminary versions of the work were shared.
Authors are obligated to adhere to ethical standards for research and bear full responsibility for the manuscript’s content. Manuscripts must not contain unfounded or unlawful statements or infringe upon the rights of others. The publisher assumes no liability in cases of damage claims.
Authors must ensure accurate and complete citation of sources that significantly influenced their research and manuscript. In cases where significant errors are discovered post-publication, authors must promptly notify the editor and cooperate in retracting or correcting the manuscript.
By submitting their manuscript, authors agree to adhere to the editorial policy of Management in Sport and sign an Author Statement. This document, available on the journal’s website, confirms that the manuscript is original work prepared according to the journal’s guidelines. Manuscripts will not be accepted if authors fail to comply with reviewer comments or refuse to make recommended revisions.
PREVENTION OF PLAGIARISM
Management in Sport does not publish plagiarized works. Plagiarism, defined as the unauthorized use of another’s ideas, words, or contributions without proper acknowledgment, constitutes a severe violation of scientific and publishing ethics. It may also involve copyright infringement, which is punishable by law.
Plagiarism includes:
- Verbatim or near-verbatim copying or deliberate paraphrasing of others’ texts without proper citation.
- Copying data, images, or tables without appropriate attribution or author permission.
Each submission is subjected to plagiarism detection software. Manuscripts found to contain clear evidence of plagiarism will be immediately rejected. If plagiarism is identified post-publication, the article will be retracted following established procedures.
RETRACTION OF PUBLISHED ARTICLES
Published articles will be retracted in cases of copyright violations, ethical breaches, duplicate submissions, false authorship claims, data manipulation, or unreported use of AI tools. Retraction notices will state the reasons and party responsible for the retraction. Retracted articles will remain accessible in their original format but will carry a watermark indicating their retracted status.
