Type of the Paper (Article, Review, Communication, etc.)

Title

Firstname Lastname 1, Firstname Lastname 2 and Firstname Lastname 2,* (will be blinded by editors for review)

Received: date; Accepted: date; Published: date

Abstract: A single paragraph of about 200 words. For research articles, abstracts should give a pertinent overview of the work. We strongly encourage authors to use the following style of structured abstracts, but without headings: 1) Background: Place the question addressed in a broad context and highlight the purpose of the study; 2) Methods: Describe briefly the main methods or treatments applied and study design; 3) Results: Summarize the article's main findings; and 4) Conclusions: Indicate the main conclusions or interpretations. The abstract should be an objective representation of the article, it must not contain results which are not presented and substantiated in the main text and should not exaggerate the main conclusions.

Keywords: keyword 1; keyword 2; keyword 3 (List three to ten pertinent keywords specific to the article; yet reasonably common within the subject discipline, and not comprise of words in the title)

0.How to Use This Template

The template details the headings, text and formats that must be used in a manuscript. Note that each heading, text type and formats has a corresponding style, which can be found in the ‘Styles’ menu of Word. To access ‘styles’, view the tutorial from Office 365 support on https://support.office.com/en-us/article/video-using-styles-in-word-9db4c0f4-2754-4294-9758-c14a0abd8cfa. The template are for Original articles and Review papers. Other article types have a more flexible structure and contact with the editorial department is necessary.

All submissions should show evidence of good scholarship, the design and conduct of the project, and the presentation and discussion of results, and the significance of the manuscript for the practice. Indicate relevance by referring to theories, paradigms, or conceptual frameworks and by briefly reviewing the existing knowledge base. Use person-first, nonsexist language in your writing, according to Publication Manual of the American Psychology Association (PMAPA) 7th Edition standards (pp. 61-76). Avoid using characteristic and attributes. Instead, use demographic data, diagnostic criteria met, behaviors, or indicators. For studies involving humans, the method section must include a statement regarding institutional approval of the protocol and obtaining informed consent. Avoid creating groups for statistical analysis that combine individuals representing different etiologies (e.g., people with and without Down syndrome), genders, or a wide range of age groups. PMAPA 7th Edition (pp. 24-26) requires reporting both statistical significance and effect size, when appropriate. More details about statistical reporting can be found in the results chapter. Carefully check the accuracy of citations and references and use both guides from PMAPA 7th Edition for in-text citations as well in the reference list. For a limited time, guidance on the 7th Edition can be found from https://apastyle.apa.org. To enable blind reviews, kindly verify that your manuscript does not reveal the author's identity.

Remove these initial paragraphs and start from the Introduction section. For any questions, please contact the editorial team eujapa.journal@gmail.com.

Introduction

The introduction should briefly place the study in a broad context and highlight why it is important. It should define the purpose of the work and its significance. The current state of the research field should be reviewed carefully and key publications cited. Please highlight controversial and diverging hypotheses when necessary. Finally, briefly mention the main aim of the work and highlight the principal conclusions. As far as possible, please keep the introduction comprehensible to scientists outside your particular field of research. As a general rule, no more than 40 references should be cited in a full text original article (120 in review article). References are listed in accordance with PMAPA 7th Edition. See the end of the document for further details on how to put the references in the reference list using PMAPA 7th Edition.

Materials and Methods

Materials and Methods should be described with sufficient details to allow others to replicate and build on published results. Please note that publication of your manuscript implicates that you must make all materials, data, computer code, and protocols associated with the publication available to readers. Please disclose at the submission stage any restrictions on the availability of materials or information. New methods and protocols should be described in detail while well-established methods can be briefly described and appropriately cited.

Research manuscripts reporting large datasets that are deposited in a publicly available database should specify where the data have been deposited and provide the relevant accession numbers. If the accession numbers have not yet been obtained at the time of submission, please state that they will be provided during review. They must be provided prior to publication.

Intervention studies involving humans, and other studies require ethical approval must list the authority that provided approval and the corresponding ethical approval code.

Results

This section may be divided by subheadings. It should provide a concise and precise description of the experimental results, their interpretation as well as the experimental conclusions that can be drawn.

Subsection – Level 2

Subsubsection – Level 3

Sub-subsection – Level 4

Numbered lists can be added as follows:

First item

Second item

Third item

Bulleted lists look like this:

First bullet

Second bullet

Third bullet

The text continues here with the first paragraph using the style EUJAPA_3.6_text_after_list.

Figures, Tables and Schemes

All figures and tables should be cited in the main text as Figure 1, Table 1, etc.

(a)	(b)

Figure 1. This is a figure, Schemes follow the same formatting. If there are multiple panels, they should be listed as: (a) Description of what is contained in the first panel; (b) Description of what is contained in the second panel. Figures should be placed in the main text near to the first time they are cited. A caption on a single line should be centered.

Table 1. This is a table. Tables should be placed in the main text near to the first time they are cited.

Title 1	Title 2	Title 3
entry 1	data	data
entry 2	data	data 1

1 Tables may have a footer.

Formatting of Mathematical Components

This is an example of an equation:

a = 1,	(1)

the text following an equation need not be a new paragraph. Please punctuate equations as regular text. Avoid using the +/- or (±) symbol and write as text.

Formatting of block quote of text more than 40 words in length.

This is an example of a block quote from either someone else’s work or from interview data. Use the style, EUJAPA_3.9_blockquote_or_equation.

European Journal of Adapted Physical Activity European Journal of Adapted Physical Activity (EUJAPA) is an international, multidisciplinary journal, introduced to communicate, share and stimulate academic inquiry focusing on physical activity of persons with special needs. Articles appearing in EUJAPA reflect cross disciplinary nature of the academic discipline of adapted physical activity ranging from physical education, through sport, recreation, rehabilitation, dance, sport medicine or health care. (EUJAPA website)

The text following a block quote need not be a new paragraph. Use style, EUJAPA_3.6_text_after_list for the continuing sentences following a block quote.

Reporting statistics findings

For EUJAPA, the reporting of statistics follows the SAMPL guidelines produced by Lang & Alman. The guidelines can be found from https://www.equator-network.org/wp-content/uploads/2013/07/SAMPL-Guidelines-6-27-13.pdf. Adherence to the guidelines for EUJAPA particularly follow the reporting style, format and details included in the text, tables and figures. Authors should also pay attention to reporting the P value. The actual P value should be expressed (p=.04) rather than expressing a statement of inequality (p<.05) unless p<.001. The P value should be expressed to 2 digits whether it is statistically significant. When rounding, 3 digits is acceptable if rounding would change the significance of a value (e.g., p=.049 rounded to .05). If P<.01, it should be expressed to 3 digits.

P values less than .001 should be reported as P<.001. Expressing P to more than 3 significant digits does not add useful information since precise P values with extreme results are sensitive to biases or departures from the statistical model. Also, note the following;

The traditional reporting of P values (indicating only that p<0.05) simply indicated whether the results were “statistically significant” or not. But P values of 0.051 and 0.049 should be interpreted similarly even though the 0.051 is greater than 0.05 and is therefore not “significant” and that the 0.049 is less than 0.05 and thus is “significant.” Reporting actual P values avoids this problem of interpretation. P values should not be listed as not significant (NS) since, for meta-analysis, the actual values are important and not providing exact P values is a form of incomplete reporting.

Do not use 0 before the decimal point for statistical values P, alpha, and beta because they cannot equal 1. For some statistical values (e.g. kappa) even if they cannot ever equal 1, use 0 if they are used infrequently.

Discussion

Authors should discuss the results and how they can be interpreted in perspective of previous studies and of the working hypotheses. The findings and their implications should be discussed in the broadest context possible, including how the findings relate to a European perspective. Future research directions may also be highlighted. The study limitations are also included in this section.

Conclusions

This section is not mandatory but can be included if the discussion is long and is then used to summarize the study.

Perspectives

It is mandatory that all manuscripts include a brief perspective paragraph at the end of the discussion in which the findings are put into perspective in the relevant area of adapted physical activity and significance of the manuscript for the practice. This includes reference to possible previous articles in this and other journals and the potential impact of the present findings. This paragraph should not exceed 200 words.

Supplementary Materials: Large tables and figures can be added at the end of the manuscript. Using the same format of tables as those in the text. See Appendix section.

Author affiliations: (will be blinded by editors for review process)

1	Affiliation 1; e-mail@e-mail.com

2	Affiliation 2; e-mail@e-mail.com

*	Correspondence: e-mail@e-mail.com; Tel.: +xx-xxx-xxx-xxxx

Author Contributions: (will be blinded by editors for review process) For research articles with several authors, a short paragraph specifying their individual contributions must be provided using the CRediT system (https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1002/leap.1210). The following statements should be used “Conceptualization, X.X. and Y.Y.; Methodology, X.X.; Formal Analysis, X.X.; Writing-Original Draft Preparation, X.X.; Writing-Review & Editing, X.X..”. Authorship must be limited to those who have contributed substantially to the work reported.

Funding: Please add: “This research received no external funding” or “This research was funded by [name of funder] grant number [xxx]”. Check carefully that the details given are accurate and use the standard spelling of funding agency names at https://search.crossref.org/funding, any errors may affect your future funding.

Availability of data and materials: EUJAPA encourage authors of articles to share their research data, include data availability or write a statement to confirm why it cannot be shared, and cite the data in the research. More information can be found from https://authorservices.wiley.com/author-resources/Journal-Authors/open-access/data-sharing-citation/data-sharing-policy.html. In the case where data is openly available in public repositories where the dataset has DOIs, please add: “The data that support the findings of this study are openly available in [repository name e.g “figshare”] at http://doi.org/[doi], reference number [reference number]”. Where a public repository does not issue DOIs, please add: “The data that support the findings of this study are openly available in [repository name] at [URL], reference number [reference number].” Where data is taken from a public domain resource, please add: “The data that support the findings of this study are available in [repository name] at [URL/DOI], reference number [reference number]. These data were derived from the following resources available in the public domain: [list resources and URLs].” Where data is availability upon request due to privacy/ethical reasons, please add, “The data that support the findings of this study are available on request from the corresponding author. The data are not publicly available due to privacy or ethical reasons.” Where the data is available as part of supplementary material, please add: “The data that supports the findings of this study are available in the supplementary material (Appendix x) of this article.” For theoretical papers without any data, please add: “Data sharing not applicable to this article as no datasets were generated or analysed during the current study”.

Acknowledgments: In this section you can acknowledge any support given which is not covered by the author contribution or funding sections. This may include administrative and technical support, or donations in kind (e.g., materials used for experiments).

Conflicts of Interest: Declare conflicts of interest or state “The authors declare no conflict of interest.” Authors must identify and declare any personal circumstances or interest that may be perceived as inappropriately influencing the representation or interpretation of reported research results. Any role of the funders in the design of the study; in the collection, analyses or interpretation of data; in the writing of the manuscript, or in the decision to publish the results must be declared in this section. If there is no role, please state “The funders had no role in the design of the study; in the collection, analyses, or interpretation of data; in the writing of the manuscript, and in the decision to publish the results”.

Appendix A

The appendix is an optional section that can contain details and data supplemental to the main text. For example, explanations of experimental details that would disrupt the flow of the main text, but nonetheless remain crucial to understanding and reproducing the research shown; figures of replicates for experiments of which representative data is shown in the main text can be added here if brief, or as Supplementary data. Mathematical proofs of results not central to the paper can be added as an appendix.

Appendix B – Essential for review and not for publication.

Kindly attached the EQUATOR network checklist for your type of study design. Visit https://www.equator-network.org/ download the appropriate checklist and confirm that the paper includes all relevant areas of the checklist in your manuscript by stating which line numbers they can be found at. Currently, there are 480 different reporting guidelines, and if there still is not one that is exactly the same for your study design, choose the closest and make note of its closeness at the beginning of the checklist. For example, the opening sections of STROBE checklist for cross-sectional studies

Item No	Recommendation	Line No
Title and abstract	1	(a) Indicate the study’s design with a commonly used term in the title or the abstract	2
(b) Provide in the abstract an informative and balanced summary of what was done and what was found	6-15
Introduction
Background/rationale	2	Explain the scientific background and rationale for the investigation being reported	44-55
Objectives	3	State specific objectives, including any prespecified hypotheses	55-57

References

References only in the main text appear in the reference list. References are listed in accordance with PMAPA 7th Edition individually at the end of the manuscript. We recommend preparing the references with a bibliography software package, such as EndNote, RefWorks, ReferenceManager or Zotero to avoid typing mistakes and duplicated references. Include the digital object identifier (DOI) for all references where available. All full doi numbers are needed. Where no doi number can be found, provide a URL for the reference can be found. All doi numbers must start with https://doi.org/10.XX

Author, A. (Publication Year). Article title. Periodical Title, Volume(Issue), pp-pp. https://doi.org/XX.XXXXX

Author, A. (Publication Year). Article title. Periodical Title, Volume(Issue), e-page. https://doi.org/XX.XXXXX

Author, A. (Year of Publication). Title of work. Publisher. https://doi.org/XX.XX

Author, A. (Publication Year). Chapter title. In Editor A. Author (Ed), Book title (pp. XX-XX). Publisher City, State: Publisher. https://doi.org/XX.XX

Report Institute (Publication Year). Title of Report (Report Number). Publisher. Web address.

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