A Journal Devoted to Pure and Applied Research on Human Movement

Guide for Authors

Note that contributions to Human Movement Science may be either submitted online or sent by mail. Please do NOT submit via both routes. This will cause confusion and may lead to your article being reviewed and published twice!

Before submitting, it is essential that you refer to the Elsevier Artwork Guidelines: http://www.elsevier.com/locate/authorartwork

If you wish to submit your manuscript to electronically, please log on as Author to http://www.ees.elsevier.com/hms/ using your HMS username and password. You will be guided stepwise through the creation and uploading of the various files. The system automatically converts source files to a single Adobe Acrobat PDF version of the article, which is used in the peer-review process. Please note that even though manuscript source files are converted to PDF at submission for the review process, these source files are needed for further processing after acceptance. All correspondence, including notification of the Editor's decision and requests for revision, takes place by e-mail and via the author's homepage, removing the need for a hard-copy paper trail.

If authors have no facilities to submit their manuscripts electronically, they may send three copies of their manuscript with a diskette to: Prof. Dr. P.J. Beek, Faculty of Human Movement Sciences, Vrije Universiteit, Van der Boechorststraat 9, 1081 BT Amsterdam, The Netherlands, Fax 31 20 4448509, E-mail: hms@fbw.vu.nl..

Manuscripts should be printed on one side of the page only, double-spaced and with wide margin. Pages should be numbered. The cover page should contain: (i) the title of the articles, (ii) the names and complete affiliations of the author(s), (iii) e-mail, fax and telephone number of the corresponding author. The information contained in the files on the diskette should be the source of the print-out.

Submission is held to imply that papers must be previously unpublished and must not be under consideration for publication elsewhere.
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The guidelines for the preparation of manuscripts are as follows:


An Abstract should be provided conforming to the "Outline for Preparation of Abstracts" in Psychological Abstracts (PA), to be printed at the beginning of the paper. Following the Abstract one to five Keywords (from the American Psychological Assocation's (APA) "Thesaurus of Psychological Index Terms") and at least one PsycINFO Classification code (from the APA's "PsycINI Classification Categories and Codes") should be added. Assign code(s) by mentioning "PsycINFO classification", to be followed by the four digits - code(s) preceding the relevant classification category(ies).
Titles and subtitles should be numbered. If the paper is an experimental one, it should be divided, for each experiment, into appropriate headings like: Introduction, Methods, Results, Discussion/Conclusions.
References. Name references should be given in the main text (not in footnotes) by the name of the author(s) followed by the year of publication, e.g. Vindras and Viviani (1998); (Abernethy, et al. 1997; Roy & Hall, 1994). The reference list should be typed in alphabetical order without abbreviating the journal titles. Examples:
for books: Abernethy, B., Kippers, V., Mackinnon, L., Neal, R. J., & Hanrahan, S. (1997). The biophysical foundations of human movement. Champaign, IL: Human Kinetics.
for chapters contributed to books: Roy, E. A., & Hall, C. (1994). Limb apraxia: A process approach. In L. Proteau and D. Elliott (Eds.), Vision and motor control (pp. 261-282). Amsterdam: North-Holland.
for journal articles: Vindras, P., & Viviani, P. (1998). Frames of reference and control parameters in visuomanual pointing. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance, 24, 569-591.
For further details consult the APA Publication Manual (Fifth Edition). This manual can be obtained at a small charge from APA, 1200 17th Street NW, Washington DC 20036, U.S.A. (see http://www.apastyle.org/)
Figures and Tables. Figures and Tables should have an arabic number and must be referred to as follows: see Fig. 1; Figs. 2 and 3, see Table 5 etc. Their approximate locations should be indicated in the text.
Footnotes. The use of footnotes should be minimized and avoided, if possible. Footnotes to the text should be numbered using superscript arabic numerals.
Ethical Declaration. Many countries/universities have adopted strict guidelines with respect to the use of human subjects in experimental work. Guidelines for medical research have been laid down in the Declaration of Helsinki by the World Medical Association. Human Movement Science wishes to adopt the spirit of declarations of this kind and requires authors reporting on experimental work involving human subjects to make a declaration in the text of the article, or as a footnote, indicating that the experiments have been carried out according to the ethical guidelines laid down by ... (appropriate committee).

Authors are requested to follow the "Guidelines for Nonsexist Use of Language" as stated in Section 2.13 of the APA Publication Manual (fifth edition).

Proofs. One proof will be sent electronically to the corresponding author. Corrected proofs should be returned within 2 days to the publisher.

Offprints
The corresponding author, at no cost, will be provided with a PDF file of the article via e-mail. The PDF file is a watermarked version of the published article and includes a cover sheet with the journal cover image and a disclaimer outlining the terms and conditions of use.