Review Articles

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Review Articles should provide a systematic, objective, and critical summary of existing evidence in medicine, exercise science, rehabilitation, nutrition, physical activity, public health, or population health. Reviews should have a clear research focus, transparent literature selection criteria, and logical evidence synthesis.

• Introduction and Objective
• Review Methods
• Description of the State of Knowledge
• Summary
• References

The "Review Methods" section should describe literature sources, databases searched, search strategy, and inclusion/exclusion criteria, literature selection process, limitations and/or quality of the included studies, and the method of literature review. Authors should state whether a systematic review method was used. If the review is not systematic, the rationale for literature selection and the scope of the review should still be clearly described.

The "Description of the State of Knowledge" section should synthesize and critically analyze evidence rather than simply listing previous studies.

Must contain 800–1,000 characters (including spaces), divided into:

• Introduction and Objective
• Review Methods
• Brief Description of the State of Knowledge
• Summary

The abstract should accurately reflect the review topic, literature sources, main findings, current state of evidence, and implications.

• Main text: up to 30,000 characters (excluding abstract and references)
• References: up to 50
• Tables and figures: up to 8 total

Authors are encouraged to present the most important data, study characteristics, evidence comparisons, intervention strategies, conceptual frameworks, or major conclusions in tables and figures. Information presented in tables and figures should not be repeated in detail in the main text.

• Describe study population, design, sample source, inclusion/exclusion criteria, and measurement instruments in sufficient detail
• Human studies: state ethics committee name, approval number, and informed consent method
• Clinical trials: provide registry name and registration number
• Statistical analysis: state software, version, significance level, tests used, effect sizes, and confidence intervals