Welcome to the Sports Medicine and Health Science (SMHS) manuscript preparation guide. Here, you will find everything that you need to know to complete your manuscript for submission to the journal. Let’s begin with the aims and scope of the journal and the types of articles published in SMHS.

Aims and Scope of Journal

Sports Medicine and Health Science is a peer-reviewed and open access journal of the China Sport Science Society (CSSS). The three main domains covered by the journal include:

1. Sports Medicine-prevention, treatment, and rehabilitation of sports injuries using research-based practices from Western and Traditional Chinese Medicine.

2. Exercise Biology-human and animal investigations on the impact that exercise has on both cellular and organ system physiology. Further, studies that investigate the role that muscular exercise plays in the management of chronic diseases are also encouraged.

3. Impact of physical activity and inactivity on public health-epidemiological or laboratory studies investigating the impact that physical activity and/or inactivity has on public health.

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