Manuscript Types Policy

Multilateral : Jurnal Pendidikan Jasmani dan Olahraga accepts only two types of scholarly manuscripts: Original Research Articles and Literature Review Articles. All submitted manuscripts must be relevant to the journal's aims and scope, demonstrate academic rigour, contribute meaningfully to the advancement of knowledge in physical education, sport, and related disciplines, and comply with the journal's editorial and publication ethics policies.

1. Original Research Articles

Original Research Articles report new and original findings derived from systematic scientific investigations. These manuscripts must present empirical evidence obtained through appropriate research designs and rigorous methodological procedures.

Multilateral : Jurnal Pendidikan Jasmani dan Olahraga welcomes original research employing quantitative, qualitative, or mixed-methods approaches, including experimental, quasi-experimental, observational, correlational, longitudinal, survey-based, and other scientifically justified research designs.

Original Research Articles should generally include the following sections:

  • Introduction: Presents the research background, relevant literature, research gap, objectives, and, where appropriate, research hypotheses.

  • Methods: Describes the research design, participants or data sources, sampling procedures, instruments, data collection, ethical considerations, and analytical methods in sufficient detail to support transparency and reproducibility.

  • Results: Reports research findings clearly, accurately, and objectively, supported by appropriate tables, figures, or statistical analyses where necessary.

  • Discussion: Interprets the findings in relation to existing scientific evidence, explains their theoretical or practical implications, and acknowledges study limitations.

  • Conclusion: Summarizes the principal findings and their contributions without introducing unsupported claims.

Research involving human participants or animals must comply with applicable ethical standards and the journal's research ethics requirements.

2. Literature Review Articles

Literature Review Articles critically examine, synthesize, and evaluate existing scholarly evidence to provide a comprehensive understanding of a clearly defined research topic, identify knowledge gaps, and suggest directions for future research.

Multilateral : Jurnal Pendidikan Jasmani dan Olahraga accepts literature reviews that demonstrate a transparent, systematic, and scientifically justified approach to literature identification, selection, evaluation, and synthesis.

Acceptable literature review approaches include:

  • Systematic Reviews: Comprehensive and structured reviews addressing specific research questions through explicit and reproducible methods.

  • Meta-Analyses: Quantitative syntheses that statistically combine findings from eligible primary studies when methodological and statistical conditions permit.

  • Scoping Reviews: Reviews that systematically map the extent, characteristics, and nature of available evidence within a particular research area.

  • Integrative Reviews: Reviews that synthesize evidence from diverse methodological approaches using a clearly explained and rigorous review framework.

  • Narrative Reviews: Critical and analytical syntheses of existing literature that present a clear review objective, transparent literature selection approach, and substantial scholarly interpretation rather than merely summarizing previous publications.

Literature Review Articles should generally include the following sections:

  • Introduction: Establishes the research context, rationale, knowledge gap, and review objectives.

  • Methods: Describes the review design, information sources, search strategy, eligibility criteria, literature selection procedures, and methods of evidence appraisal and synthesis, as applicable to the review type.

  • Results: Presents the characteristics of the included literature and the principal findings of the evidence synthesis.

  • Discussion: Critically interprets the synthesized evidence, identifies research gaps, discusses limitations, and highlights implications for research, policy, or practice.

  • Conclusion: Summarizes the principal contributions and implications of the review.

Authors are encouraged to follow established reporting guidelines appropriate to their review methodology, including PRISMA 2020 for systematic reviews and PRISMA-ScR for scoping reviews, where applicable. Review protocol registration or publication is encouraged when appropriate but is not universally mandatory.

3. Manuscript Types Not Accepted

Multilateral : Jurnal Pendidikan Jasmani dan Olahraga does not accept manuscripts classified as:

  • Editorials

  • Letters to the Editor

  • Commentaries

  • Opinion Articles

  • Perspectives

  • Short Communications

  • Research Notes

  • Study Protocols without completed research findings

  • Conference Abstracts

  • Book Reviews

  • News Articles

  • Other non-research scholarly contributions that do not meet the requirements for Original Research Articles or Literature Review Articles

Manuscripts that do not correspond to either of the two accepted article types may be rejected during the initial editorial screening without undergoing external peer review.

4. General Submission Requirements

Regardless of manuscript type, all submissions must:

  1. Represent original scholarly work that has not been published previously and is not under consideration by another journal.

  2. Align with the aims and scope of Multilateral : Jurnal Pendidikan Jasmani dan Olahraga.

  3. Present a clear scholarly contribution supported by appropriate scientific evidence.

  4. Employ rigorous and transparent research or review methodologies.

  5. Comply with the journal's requirements concerning research ethics, publication ethics, authorship, conflicts of interest, and disclosure of artificial intelligence use.

  6. Provide accurate and complete references to relevant scholarly literature.

  7. Follow the journal's author guidelines, manuscript template, and applicable reporting standards.

5. Editorial Assessment

The Editorial Team reserves the right to determine whether a submitted manuscript meets the criteria for an accepted article type.

During initial editorial screening, the Editorial Team will evaluate submissions for manuscript classification, relevance to the journal's scope, scientific quality, methodological appropriateness, originality, and compliance with editorial policies.

Compliance with the accepted manuscript types does not guarantee acceptance for publication. All eligible manuscripts remain subject to editorial evaluation and the journal's peer-review process.

This policy applies to all manuscripts submitted to Multilateral : Jurnal Pendidikan Jasmani dan Olahraga.