For authors
Publication conditions
To publish an article in Physical Activity, Health and Sports no. 2 (40)/2026, it is necessary to take the following steps until July 27, 2026:
- fill in an application form (link);
- It is necessary to send an article, formatted according to the specified requirements, for peer review to pahs.ldufk.lviv.ua@gmail.com
Academic integrity
The editorial staff carries out anonymous peer-reviews of articles and checks for plagiarism. All papers are subject to plagiarism check using StrikePlagiarism.com by the Polish company Plagiat.pl.
Submitted manuscripts are subject to editing, peer review, and plagiarism check.
If the article successfully passes peer review and is accepted for publication, the author will be provided with bank details for payment of the publication fee.
After making the payment, the author must send a scanned copy of the receipt to the editorial office.
The publication fee is UAH 1,100 (up to 12 pages). Each extra page is charged at UAH 50. The publication fee covers the costs associated with the processing, peer review, and/or publication of the article.
No more than one article by the same author (co-author) may be published in the issue.
The editorial board accepts individual articles submitted by postgraduate students enrolled in state-funded programs for publication free of charge, provided that the manuscripts are authored solely by the students (without co-authors), comply with the journal’s requirements, and adhere to the principles of academic integrity.
Along with the manuscript, postgraduate students enrolled in state-funded programs must submit a certificate issued the graduate studies department confirming their enrollment. The certificate must be signed by the head of the relevant department and bear the its official seal.
Authors may also order a printed copy of the journal. The cost of a printed copy is UAH 1,000 and is payable in addition to the publication fee.
The electronic version of the journal will be posted on the website until October 30, 2026.
The printed version of the journal will be sent to authors of articles who order a printed copy by November 30, 2026.
Requirements for manuscripts
When submitting a manuscript to the journal, the authors shall confirm that it meets all the below requirements. If the submitted work is found to be inconsistent with these requirements, the editorial team will return the materials to the authors for revision.
Following scientific prose style, an article shall comprise the following structural elements: problem statement and its relevance to important scientific or practical tasks; analysis of recent research and publications that have initiated the solution of the problem concerned and the author relies on; identification of previously unresolved parts of the general problem the article is devoted to; formulation of research goals (task statement); presentation of the main research material with full justification of the scientific results obtained; conclusions and prospects for further research in the relevant area.
A manuscript is drafted using Microsoft Word without hyphenation and meets the following requirements: page size – A4; margins – 2 cm, font – Times New Roman, size (point) – 14, line spacing – 1.5; pages are not numbered.
- At the beginning of the article on the left – section title and UDC.
- On the right, bold, normal font – the article’s title in capitals.
- On the right, in separate lines: in bold, normal font - the name and initials of the author(s), academic degree and rank (if the author does not have an academic degree and title, it is used “postgraduate student”, “student”, “teacher”, etc.). ORCID, e-mail, and place of work/study – in italics below.
- Ukrainian abstract (1800 characters with spaces) with keywords (5-7 words).
- Title, information about the authors, abstract of 1800 characters incl. spaces, and 5-7 keywords in English. If the article is in English, the title and information about the author(s) are first presented in English and then in Ukrainian.
- Article text.
- The bibliography list is in alphabetical order in compliance with the current standards of bibliographic formatting. To ensure the quality of scientific citations, the DOI of each source (if available) must be provided in the list of references.
- At the end of the article, References, the transliterated and translated into English version of the bibliography list meeting APA (American Psychological Association) style.
In-text citations are in square brackets – the title’s number in the list and page numbers.
Prohibition on using the aggressor state’s scholarly papers:
It is prohibited citing and including in the reference list Russian-language publications published in any country, including papers written in other languages but published in russia and belarus.
