Manuscript Submission
Submission of a manuscript implies: that the work described has not been published elsewhere; that it
is not under consideration for publication anywhere else; that its publication has been approved by all coauthors,
if any, as well as by the institutional competent authorities – tacitly or explicitly – at the institute
where the work has been carried out. The publisher must not be held legally responsible should there be any
claims for compensation. The corresponding author is responsible for content of the article.
Permissions
Authors wishing to include figures, tables, or text passages that have already been published elsewhere
are required to obtain permission from the copyright owner(s) for both the print and online format and to
include evidence that such permission has been granted when submitting their papers. Any material received
without such evidence will be assumed to originate from the authors.
Online Submission
Please submit the manuscript by email to editorjop2000@gmail.com
Title Page
A good title briefly identifies the subject, indicates the purpose of the study, and introduces key terms
or concepts. The recommended limit is 12 words.
The title page should include:
• The name(s) of the author(s)
• A concise and informative title
• The affiliation(s) and address(es) of the author(s)
• The e-mail address, and telephone number(s) of the corresponding author
• If available, the 16-digit ORCID of the author(s)
Abstract
Please provide an abstract of 250-300 words. The abstract should not contain any undefined
abbreviations or unspecified references.
Keywords
Please provide 4 to 6 keywords which can be used for indexing purposes.
Text Formatting
Manuscripts should be submitted in Microsoft Word.
• Use a normal, plain font (e.g., 12-point Times Roman) for text.
• Use italics for emphasis.
• Use the automatic page numbering function to number the pages.
• Do not use field functions.
• Use tab stops or other commands for indents, not the space bar.
• Use the table function, not spreadsheets, to make tables.
• Save your file in docx format (Word 2007 or higher) or doc format (older Word versions).
Headings
Please use no more than three levels of displayed headings.
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Abbreviations
Abbreviations should be defined at first mention and used consistently thereafter.
Footnotes
Footnotes can be used to give additional information, which may include the citation of a reference
included in the reference list. They should not consist solely of a reference citation, and they should never
include the bibliographic details of a reference. They should also not contain any figures or tables.
Footnotes to the text are numbered consecutively; those to tables should be indicated by superscript
lower-case letters (or asterisks for significance values and other statistical data). Footnotes to the title or the
authors of the article are not given reference symbols.
Always use footnotes instead of endnotes.
Acknowledgments
Acknowledgments of people, grants, funds, etc. should be placed in a separate section on the title
page. The names of funding organizations should be written in full.
• Use the double line spacing within the submission.
• Please always use internationally accepted signs and symbols for units (SI units).
• Genus and species names should be in italics.
• Please use the standard mathematical notation for formulae, symbols etc.:
Citation
Cite references in the text by name and year in parentheses. Some examples:
• Negotiation research spans many disciplines (Thompson 1990).
• This result was later contradicted by Becker and Seligman (1996).
• This effect has been widely studied (Abbott 1991; Barakat et al. 1995a, b; Kelso and Smith 1998;
Medvec et al. 1999, 2000).
Reference list
The list of references should only include works that are cited in the text and that have been published
or accepted for publication. Personal communications and unpublished works should only be mentioned in
the text. Do not use footnotes or endnotes as a substitute for a reference list.
Reference list entries should be alphabetized by the last names of the first author of each work. Order
multi-author publications of the same first author alphabetically with respect to second, third, etc. author.
Publications of exactly the same author(s) must be ordered chronologically.
• Journal article
Gamelin FX, Baquet G, Berthoin S, Thevenet D, Nourry C, Nottin S, Bosquet L (2009) Effect of high
intensity intermittent training on heart rate variability in prepubescent children. Eur. J. Appl. Physiol. 105:731-
- https://doi.org/10.1007/s00421-008-0955-8
Ideally, the names of all authors should be provided, but the usage of “et al” in long author lists will
also be accepted:
Smith J, Jones M Jr, Houghton L et al (1999) Future of health insurance. N. Engl. J .Med.965:325–
329
• Article by DOI
Slifka MK, Whitton JL (2000) Clinical implications of dysregulated cytokine production. J Mol Med.
https://doi.org/10.1007/s001090000086
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• Book
South J, Blass B (2001) The future of modern genomics. Blackwell, London
• Book chapter
Brown B, Aaron M (2001) The politics of nature. In: Smith J (ed) The rise of modern genomics, 3rd
edn. Wiley, New York, pp 230-257
• Online document
Cartwright J (2007) Big stars have weather too. IOP Publishing PhysicsWeb. http://physicsweb.org/
articles/news/11/6/16/1. Accessed 26 June 2007
• Dissertation
Trent JW (1975) Experimental acute renal failure. Dissertation, University of California
Tables
• All tables are to be numbered using Arabic numerals.
• Tables should always be cited in text in consecutive numerical order.
• For each table, please supply a table caption (title) explaining the components of the table.
• Identify any previously published material by giving the original source in the form of a reference at
the end of the table caption.
• Footnotes to tables should be indicated by superscript lower-case letters (or asterisks for significance
values and other statistical data) and included beneath the table body.
Figures
Name your figure files with “Fig” and the figure number, e.g., Fig1.eps
• All figures are to be numbered using Arabic numerals.
• Figures should always be cited in text in consecutive numerical order.
• Figure parts should be denoted by lowercase letters (a, b, c, etc.).
• If an appendix appears in your article and it contains one or more figures, continue the consecutive
numbering of the main text. Do not number the appendix figures, “A1, A2, A3, etc.” Figures in online
appendices (Electronic Supplementary Material) should, however, be numbered separately
Figure Captions
• Each figure should have a concise caption describing accurately what the figure depicts. Include the
captions in the text file of the manuscript, not in the figure file.
• Figure captions begin with the term Fig. in bold type, followed by the figure number, also in bold
type.
• No punctuation is to be included after the number, nor is any punctuation to be placed at the end of the
caption.
• Identify all elements found in the figure in the figure caption; and use boxes, circles, etc., as coordinate
points in graphs.
• Identify previously published material by giving the original source in the form of a reference citation
at the end of the figure caption.
Permissions
If you include figures that have already been published elsewhere, you must obtain permission from
the copyright owner(s) for both the print and online format. Please be aware that some publishers do not
grant electronic rights for free and that Springer will not be able to refund any costs that may have occurred
to receive these permissions. In such cases, material from other sources should be used.
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Text and Presentations
• Submit your material in.doc or .docx files.
Authors should refrain from misrepresenting research results which could damage the trust in the
journal, the professionalism of scientific authorship, and ultimately the entire scientific endeavour. Maintaining
integrity of the research and its presentation can be achieved by following the rules of good scientific
practice, which include:
• The manuscript has not been submitted to more than one journal for simultaneous consideration.
• The manuscript has not been published previously (partly or in full), unless the new work concerns an
expansion of previous work (please provide transparency on the re-use of material to avoid the hint of
text-recycling (“self-plagiarism”)).
• A single study is not split up into several parts to increase the quantity of submissions and submitted
to various journals or to one journal over time (e.g. “salami-publishing”).
• No data have been fabricated or manipulated (including images) to support your conclusions
• No data, text, or theories by others are presented as if they were the author’s own (“plagiarism”).
Proper acknowledgements to other works must be given (this includes material that is closely copied
(near verbatim), summarized and/or paraphrased), quotation marks are used for verbatim copying of
material, and permissions are secured for material that is copyrighted.
• Upon acceptance of your article you will receive a mail.
• Copyright transfer
• Authors will be asked to transfer copyright of the article to the Publisher (or grant the Publisher
exclusive publication and dissemination rights). This will ensure the widest possible protection and
dissemination of information under copyright laws.
• Color illustrations
• Online and offline publication of color illustrations is free of charge.
• Proof reading
• The purpose of the proof is to check for typesetting or conversion errors and the completeness and
accuracy of the text, tables and figures. Substantial changes in content, e.g., new results, corrected
values, title and authorship, are not allowed without the approval of the Editor.
• After online publication, further changes can only be made in the form of an Erratum, which will be
hyperlinked to the article.
• Online First
The article will be published online after receipt of the corrected proofs. After release of the printed
version, the paper can also be cited by issue and page numbers.