Submission
& Registration

Paper submission

We invite coaches, sports scientists, health professionals, team doctors and students who are involved in the outdoor and indoor water sports to present their original work on some of the proposed subtopics. The main scopes of the congress are topics that deal with water sports and water activities. The proposed sub-topics provide general guidelines. The listed subtopics are not exclusive. Authors should not feel limited to them.

Instructions for authors

Abstract

Please use the template for abstract

Full text paper

Please use the template for abstract

Review process

The Scientific Committee select the best manuscripts to be published. The scientific staff require that all the manuscripts sent to be published must be evaluated by 2 independent reviewers in anonymous form

The decision regarding the received manuscripts are the following:

The ab initio rejection, without the manuscripts being forwarded to the lectors (in the case of severe faults of writing/content, thematic)

Accepting the manuscript without modifications;

Basically accepting the manuscript, with minor modifications;

Accepting the manuscript, but with major modifications.

The decision will be communicated to the respective author in a strictly anonymous form. During the peer-review process, the lectors will evaluate elements from the Evaluation Protocol table, one which makes direct reference to having published a manuscript considered an original article.

Presentation format

Presenters (= first authors) must be registered and have paid registration fees for the conference at the latest by 10th of September 2023 to guarantee publication of the abstract/Full-Text in the proceeding of the Congress. Later registrations will lead to an exclusion of the abstract/Full-text and an exclusion from the scientific program.

Each author is entitled to present at most one abstract/Full-Text (An author may submit only one abstract/Full-Text as the first author and two abstracts/Full-Text as the co-author).

Invited presentation

Invited presentations are presented by invited speakers in PowerPoint format. Invited presentations are 20 minutes with 10 minutes Questions and Answers. Invited presentations must be pre-uploaded in the Speakers Ready Room one hour in advance of their presentation. The use of your own laptop is not permitted, while the use of your own USB is permitted. Abstracts need to be submitted according to the congress standards of the and within the given abstract submission deadline.

Oral presentation

Oral presentation format is PowerPoint. Oral presentation time will be 7 minutes plus 3 minutes of discussion. Oral presentations must be pre-uploaded in the Speakers Ready Room one hour in advance of their presentation. The use of your own laptop is not permitted, while the use of your own USB is permitted.

Poster presentation

Poster presentation (not debated) presentation format requires printed posters in following format: portrait (vertical) with dimensions of A1 format (594mm x 841mm). Abstracts accepted in this format will be published in the proceeding of the Congress too.

Registration fees
Participant Type Oral/Poster Presenter Registration € 150

INFORMATION FOR THE PAYMENT OF FEES

Recipient: University of Split, Faculty of Kinesiology, N.Tesle 6, 21000 Split
IBAN: HR4124070001100643571
SWIFT (for payments from abroad): OTPVHR2X
Call to recipient number: 00 2023
Description of payment: Registration fee for the SMAS Conference, NAME and SURNAME of the participant

Confirmation of payment must be sent to ana.bacic@kifst.eu or delivered in person/by post (Faculty of Kinesiology in Split, N.Tesle 6, 21000 Split).