North American Society for Sport Management

The following is a call for papers for the 2012 issue of the Sport Management Education Journal. The purpose of the Sport Management Education Journal  is to advance the body of knowledge in pedagogy as it relates to sport management education and disseminate knowledge about sport management courses, curricula, and teaching. Manuscripts may address a wide range of issues concerning graduate and undergraduate education such as: curriculum planning, curriculum design, future employment requirements, trends and their impacts, course content, fieldwork, internships, experiential learning, teaching methods, accreditation, community education, and tenure and promotion. Manuscripts based on conceptual, philosophical, and empirical inquiry will be considered for publication

In preparing manuscripts for publication authors should follow the guidelines in the most current Publication Manual of the American Psychological Association. All articles must be preceded by an abstract of no more that 150 words. Manuscripts must be submitted in English and must be double-spaced, including references and blocked quotations, on standard 8 1/2 x  11–in. white paper with approximately 1-in. margins. Manuscripts should not exceed 30 manuscript pages. If footnotes are used, they should not exceed 6 lines each. Figures submitted on disk should be created in Excel or saved as TIFF files. All tables, figure captions, and footnotes must be grouped together on pages separate from the body of the text. Reference citations in the text must be accurate concerning dates of publication and spelling of author names, and they must cross-check with those in the reference list. Copies of manuscripts are not returned to the authors. Copyright for all published articles will be held by NASSM.

Manuscript submissions must meet the following specifications:

1. Manuscripts must not be submitted to another journal while they are under review by the Sport Management Education Journal, nor should they have been previously published.
2. Use 12 point font and one inch margins on sides, top and bottom.
3. Use appropriate subheadings.
4. Tracking changes must not be readable.

Authors should submit their manuscript through ManuscriptCentral, the online submission system for the Sport Management Education Journal at http://mc.manuscriptcentral.com/hk_smej. ManuscriptCentral manages the electronic transfer of manuscripts throughout the article review process while providing step-by-step instructions and a user-friendly design. Please access the site and follow the directions for authors submitting manuscripts. Any problems that may be encountered can be resolved easily by selecting “Get Help Now” in the upper-right corner of any ManuscriptCentral screen. Please note that a blind review process is used to evaluate manuscripts. As such, any clues to the author’s identity should be eliminated from the manuscript. The first page of the manuscript must not include author names or affiliations, but it should include the title of the paper and the date of submission.

Questions about the journal or manuscript submission should be directed to the Editor of the journal, Dr. Mary Hums, at mhums@louisville.edu.