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Sports Coach is produced by the Australian Sports Commission aiming to provide coaches, in particular beginning and intermediate level coaches, with interesting, useful and up-to-date coaching information.

Regular features in Sports Coach include:

• Interviews with high profile coaches
• Coaching children
• Coaching methods
• Sports psychology
• Sports nutrition
• Sports injury
• Strength & conditioning
• New resource reviews
• Thanks coach – high profile athletes thanking their coaches who nurtured them
• Webwatch – reviewing list of websites that are useful and informative to coaches
• Referenced articles – listing of journal articles including sports specific journals recently published

• To subscribe
• To advertise
• To contribute

To subscribe

Don’t miss out on this premier coaching magazine. Subscribe to Sports Coach magazine.

To advertise

• Advertising rates
• Materials requirements
• Issues Deadlines
• Readers’ demographics

Advertising rates

Please note that all prices are GST inclusive.

INSERT: $220 per 1,000 subscribers

Note: All rates are GST inclusive and are subject to 10% agency commission.

Material Requirements

Copy must be ready for camera and delivered on or before copy deadline.

Electronic artwork should be designed in Quark (preferably in Mac) or Quark transferable format, with the following page specifications:

• Image area: 180mm wide x 280mm deep
• Trim: 210mm wide x 297mm deep
• Bleed: 220mm wide x 310mm deep

All other full colour artwork should be supplied as separated negative film with colour proof, wrong reading emulsion side up. 175mm screen ruling, allowing for a 3-5mm bleed.

Single or two colour advertisement can be supplied as bromide or electronically indicating black and colour sections, according to the following page specs:

• 1/4 page 90mm wide x 130mm deep (image area only)
• 1/2 page – landscape 180mm wide x 130mm deep (image area only)

Issues Deadlines

Publisher
Australian Sports Commission

Circulation

Sports Coach is read by a large cross section of the community. 3,000 copies are distributed quarterly to:

• coaches
• schools & tertiary institutions
• recreation and sports clubs
• national/state sporting organizations
• sports scientists and practitioners
• sports administrators

Contents

Regular articles in Sports Coach -

• Coaches interviews
• Coaching Children
• Athlete Development
• Sports Psychology
• Sports Nutrition
• Strength & Conditioning
• Coaching and the Law
• New Resource Reviews

Further information

Ms Janice Lo
Public Affairs Officer

Readers’ demographics

Sex: Male 75% Female 25%

Age:

• Under 17 - 1%
• 18 - 25 - 10%
• 26 - 35 - 23%
• 35 - 50 - 50%
• over 50 - 16%

Income:

• Under $10,000 - 11%
• $10,000 - $30,000 - 25%
• $30,000 - $50,000 - 48%
• Over $50,000 - 15%

Occupation:

• Academic, Teachers, Students - 41%
• Sporting, Fitness, Recreation - 24%
• Administrative, Management, Financial - 14%
• Labour, Engineering, Building, Technology - 10%
• Retired, Unemployed - 4%
• Medical, Scientific - 3%
• Other - 4%

Highest Level of Education:

• Secondary - 22%
• Tertiary - 72%
• Other - 6%

National Coaching Accreditation Scheme registered coach:

• Yes 89%
• No  11%

State/Distribution:

ACT	3%
NSW	28%
VIC	25%
QLD	19%
TAS	3%
SA	6%
WA	7%
NT	1%
Overseas	6%

Sport:

AFL	7%
Athletics	7%
Baseball	1%
Basketball	5%
Cricket	9%
Netball	9%
Softball	3%
Bowls	4%
Swimming	6%
Equestrian	1%
Rugby league	5%
Rugby union	5%
Soccer	8%
Triathlon	1%
Strength & conditioning	5%
Tennis	2%
Life saving	2%
Squash	1%
Touch	3%
Rowing	3%
Gymnastics	1%
Cycling	1%
Hockey	7%
Others – Archery, martial arts, boxing, canoeing, callisthenics, golf, surfing, lacrosse and motorcycling	5%

To contribute

1. Editorial Style:

• Easy to understand for grassroots and intermediate level coaches

Use plain English and avoid jargon, acronyms, abbreviations and complicated data

• Fairly generic (non-sports specific)

Interesting to coaches from a wide range of sports

• A new approach

Go beyond what is stated in coaching manuals with innovative ideas and solutions

• Practical

Bridge the gap between theory and practice. Emphasise strategies then coaches can apply to their coaching

• Take-home value

Encapsulate the essentials of the article by providing guidelines/tips/implications for coaches in special summary boxes and tables

2. Deadlines

Please submit your contribution on or before the following dates.

Editorial Deadlines (2003)

• Jan issue - 30 Oct
• Apr issue - 30 Jan
• July issue - 30 Apr
• Oct issue - 30 July

3. Article length: Approximately 1000 to 1200 words

4. Presentation format:

• Articles should be in IBM Word 98 Version/or the latest version
• The author’s name(s) should appear on the title page along with the name and address of their institution, where appropriate.
• Figures, summary tables and diagrams should be numbered consecutively throughout the paper. Photographs should be clearly labelled.
• References and further reading lists should appear at the end of the paper in standard bibliographical format. Footnotes should be avoided.

5. Submission: You may submit your article —

• by email to
• on disk and mail to Sports Coach, PO Box 176 BELCONNEN ACT 2617

6. Intellectual property:

• The article must be your own original work.
• If the article contains any photographs, figures, diagrams, summary tables, graphs or other non textual elements, that are not your own original work, you must ensure that you have obtained in writing the permission of the copyright owner to include their work in your article to be published in Sports Coach. The permission letters must be submitted with your article

7. Prohibited content: Your article must not contain —

• anything defamatory or libellous; or,
• any recipe, formula or instruction that may cause harm or injury; and
• should generally be consistent with the promotion of ethical behaviour in sports and coaching.

8. Style notes

[Headings]

• heading 1 is the title of the article — use Arial 14pt bold, left-justified, and minimal capitalisation (ie an initial capital letter is used for the first word of a title and any other proper names in the title [Olympic, Joe Bloggs, etc].

eg Mind matters for Australian sport educators

• heading 2 is used for subtitles within articles — use Arial 12pt bold, left-justified, and minimal capitalisation

eg Preferred learning style

• heading 3 is used for next level down under subtitles — use Times New Roman 12pt bold italic, left-justified, and minimal capitalisation

eg Your trainer’s role

[text]

Use Times New Roman 12pt normal, left-justified

Eg The normal method of using creatine is ….

[Miscellaneous]

• Use a single space after a full stop, not two spaces.
• Left-justify all text and headings.
• Use ‘Australian English’ as language setting. It’s easy to check whether your document is already using Australian English. In Word, select your whole document (which you can do with Control + A). Then go to Tools — Language — Set language, and select ‘English (Australian)’. This step might seem fussy to you, but if each author can do it, that will save us a lot of time in preparing your document for publication.

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