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Guidelines for authors and reviewers

Welcome to British Journal of Sports Medicine's guidelines for authors and reviewers. These guidelines have been compiled to provide maximum support and assistance for authors and reviewers throughout all stages of the publication process.

More information about the articles we publish, our peer review and publication lead times, can be found on our About BJSM page.

BJSM uses an online submission and review system (Bench>Press) and manuscripts must be submitted via Bench>Press. Please register with Bench>Press or contact the editorial office if you are unable to submit in this way.

Editors reserve the right to return manuscripts that do not meet these guidelines.

Submit a manuscript

step 1: manuscript preparation
step 2: submission checklist
step 3: online submission
 

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Review a manuscript

step 1: reviewer guidelines
step 2: reviewing on Bench>Press
step 3: obtaining feedback
 

begin review