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Author Guidelines

EDITORIAL RULES FOR AUTHORS AND CONTRIBUTORS

General Guidelines

Authors are invited to carefully follow the indications below:

  • Title in Italian and English (Calibri 10, bold, capital letters).
  • Abstract in Italian and English (Calibri 8 – maximum 500 characters including spaces).
  • Keywords in Italian and English (Calibri 8 – from 3 to 5) describing the content of the article. Keywords are used for indexing purposes and should therefore be selected according to a general classification logic while capturing the specific focus of the work.
  • Main text written in Calibri 11.
  • References must follow APA Style and be proportionate to the length of the article. The journal publishes only reference bibliographies; therefore authors should ensure that each work included in the bibliography is cited in the text.
  • Bibliography must be written in Calibri 11.

At the end of the manuscript, after the bibliography and notes, authors should indicate the date of submission and, where applicable, the version number of the manuscript.

Authors are also requested to provide contact details (telephone, email and postal address) for editorial communication. These details will be removed before publication.

To ensure the integrity of the double-blind peer review process, author information must be provided in a separate file during submission. The anonymized manuscript should not contain any information that could reveal the identity or affiliation of the author(s).

 Style

Authors are encouraged to structure the manuscript clearly and avoid excessively long paragraphs. The use of headings and subheadings is recommended.

Foreign words appearing in the text should be written in italics, unless they are commonly naturalized terms.

Quotation marks (“ ”) should be used for quotations and for expressions that need to be highlighted within the text.

Consistency in punctuation and formatting is strongly recommended. Punctuation marks such as . , ; : ! are never preceded by a space and are always followed by a space.

Footnotes should be used only for explanatory purposes. Bibliographic references must follow APA Style using in-text citations.

In the case of multiple authors, a footnote may be used to specify the contribution of each author.

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Submission Preparation Checklist

As part of the submission process, authors are required to check off their submission's compliance with all of the following items, and submissions may be returned to authors that do not adhere to these guidelines.

  1. The submission has not been previously published, nor is it under consideration by another journal (or an explanation has been provided to the Editor in the Comments field).
  2. The submission file is in OpenOffice, Microsoft Word, RTF, or WordPerfect format.
  3. Where available, URLs or DOIs for references have been provided.
  4. The text is written in Calibri 11, single-spaced, uses italics rather than underlining (except for URLs), and all illustrations, figures, and tables are placed within the text at the appropriate points rather than at the end of the document.

  5. The manuscript complies with the editorial and bibliographic guidelines described in the Editorial Rules available on the journal website and has been prepared using the journal article template.

  6. For submissions to peer-reviewed sections of the journal, the instructions for ensuring a blind review have been followed.

  7. Articles written in English have been linguistically revised by a native speaker or qualified English-language editor.

  8. References are formatted according to APA Style, and DOIs are provided where available.
  9. Where required by applicable regulations, the author declares that the research presented in the article has been approved by the relevant ethics committee.
  10. By submitting the manuscript, the author declares that they accept the journal’s Code of Ethics.
 

Copyright Notice

Authors who publish in this journal agree to the following terms:

  • Authors retain copyright of their work and grant the journal the right of first publication. The work is simultaneously licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution–NonCommercial–NoDerivatives License (CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 IT), which allows others to share the work provided that proper attribution is given to the author and to the journal as the original place of publication.
  • Authors may enter into separate, additional contractual arrangements for the non-exclusive distribution of the published version of the work (for example depositing it in an institutional repository or including it in a monograph), provided that the original publication in this journal is clearly acknowledged.
  • Authors are permitted to distribute their work online (for example in institutional repositories or on their personal websites) before and during the submission process, as this may facilitate scholarly exchange and increase the visibility and citation of the published work.

All journal content is published under the Creative Commons Attribution–NonCommercial–NoDerivatives 3.0 Italy License (CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 IT).

For further information:

 LICENSE

https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/deed.it

 LEGAL NOTES

 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/legalcode.it

 

Privacy Statement

Privacy Policy

Italian Journal of Health Education, Sport and Inclusive Didactics – pursuant to Article 13 of Regulation (EU) 2016/679 (GDPR)

1. Data controller and scope

The data controller is Cares S.r.l. – REN Press, publisher of the Italian Journal of Health Education, Sport and Inclusive Didactics since 1 January 2026, VAT no. and tax code 10711951219, certified email (PEC) cares@pecimprese.it.

Until 31 December 2025 the journal was published by Gaia srl – Edizioni Universitarie Romane. Since 1 January 2026 Cares S.r.l. is also the controller of the data on the platform collected before that date.

This policy covers the personal data processed through the journal's publishing platform at https://ojs.gsdjournal.it and during the submission, review and publication of manuscripts.

The controller has not appointed a Data Protection Officer, as the legal requirements for doing so are not met.

2. Data subjects and data processed

Processing concerns authors, reviewers, members of the editorial board and editorial staff, registered users, and anyone who contacts the journal.

  • Identification and contact data: first and last name, email, affiliation, country, ORCID iD; for authors, telephone and postal details requested for editorial correspondence (not published).
  • Data related to submissions: manuscripts, supplementary files, editorial correspondence, reviewers' evaluations and comments.
  • Technical data: platform login credentials, IP address and browsing data recorded in server logs.

The journal does not request special categories of personal data (Art. 9 GDPR). Any research data concerning study participants must be anonymised by the authors, in accordance with the journal's ethics and informed consent policies.

3. Purposes and legal bases

Purpose

Legal basis (Art. 6 GDPR)

Registration on the platform and account management

Performance of a relationship requested by the data subject (point b)

Management of submissions, double-blind peer review and editorial decisions

Performance of a relationship requested by the data subject (point b)

Publication of articles with the names, affiliations and ORCID iDs of authors and the corresponding author's email

Performance of the publishing relationship (point b) and legitimate interest in disseminating and preserving scholarly research (point f)

Transmission of article metadata to identification, indexing and preservation services (e.g. Crossref, DOAJ, Google Scholar, OAI-PMH, LOCKSS)

Legitimate interest in the discoverability and preservation of publications (point f)

Service communications and platform notifications

Performance of the relationship (point b)

Possible annual publication of the list of reviewers, without linking them to individual articles

Legitimate interest in the transparency of the editorial process (point f), with the right to object

Security and proper functioning of the website

Legitimate interest (point f)

Compliance with legal obligations

Legal obligation (point c)

 

Personal data are not used for marketing or profiling purposes and are not transferred to third parties for such purposes.

Providing the data marked as mandatory is necessary to register, submit a manuscript or act as a reviewer; without them, these activities are not possible.

4. Recipients

Data are processed by the controller's authorised staff and collaborators and may be disclosed to:

  • members of the editorial board and editorial staff involved in handling submissions;
  • reviewers, who receive manuscripts without information identifying the authors, in accordance with the double-blind procedure;
  • the platform's hosting provider, appointed as data processor (Art. 28 GDPR);
  • DOI registration, indexing and digital preservation services, limited to the published metadata of articles;
  • public authorities, where required by law.

Data published with articles (name, affiliation, ORCID iD, corresponding author's email) are by their nature publicly accessible.

5. Transfers outside the European Union

Some registration and indexing services may process article metadata outside the European Economic Area. In such cases, transfers take place in compliance with Chapter V of the GDPR. Further information can be requested from the controller.

6. Retention

Data

Retention period

Published articles and their metadata

Indefinitely, as a permanent part of the scholarly record

Rejected manuscripts and related correspondence

5 years from the decision

Reviewers' evaluations and editorial process records

10 years from the decision

User accounts

Until deletion is requested, or after 5 years of inactivity

Server technical logs

12 months

 

7. Rights of data subjects

Data subjects may at any time exercise the rights provided by Articles 15–22 GDPR: access, rectification, erasure, restriction, data portability and objection to processing based on legitimate interest.

For articles already published, erasure of authors' data may be limited, since publication forms part of the scholarly record (Art. 17(3)(d) GDPR). Rectification of inaccurate data and the publication of corrections remain possible.

Requests should be sent to cares@pecimprese.it (certified email). Editorial enquiries may be sent to managing@gsdjournal.it.

Data subjects also have the right to lodge a complaint with the Italian Data Protection Authority, Garante per la protezione dei dati personali (www.garanteprivacy.it).

8. Cookies

The platform uses only technical cookies necessary for the website to function, such as the session cookie for registered users' login and the language preference. No profiling cookies or third-party tracking tools are used.

9. Updates

This policy may be updated. The version in force is always published on this page.

Last updated: 2 November 2026.