Guidelines on supplementary materials

The International Journal of Racket Sports Science actively promotes best practices in open science and reproducibility. We invite authors to voluntarily share the data, code, and materials that support their results. This practice strengthens transparency, facilitates validation, and promotes the reuse of knowledge in engineering, computing, and applied technologies.

 

  1. Scope of Supporting Materials

Supporting materials may include, but are not limited to:

  • Datasets, experimental logs, CSV tables, or spreadsheets.
  • Source code, scripts, notebooks, or computational models.
  • Algorithms, architectures, simulation configurations, or trained models.
  • Diagrams, images, videos, plans, or technical documentation related to hardware and sensors.
  • Manuals, protocols, metrics, or files generated during the research process.

 

  1. Repository and Access

It is recommended that these materials be hosted in public repositories that provide permanent identifiers (DOIs), such as Zenodo, Figshare, Harvard Dataverse, or Mendeley Data. The source code can be maintained on platforms such as GitHub or GitLab, ideally linked to Zenodo to ensure preservation and traceability.

When ethical, legal, or confidentiality restrictions prevent open publication of the data, the corresponding author must declare this and indicate whether sharing is possible upon reasonable request.

 

  1. Format and Citation

At the end of the manuscript, authors may include a section titled “Availability of Materials and Data,” indicating the location or DOI of the corresponding repository.

 

Example: The data and source code for this study are available on Zenodo, DOI: 10.xxxx/zenodo.xxxxxx.

 

If no new data or materials were generated, or if this section is not applicable, it can be omitted without affecting the editorial evaluation.

 

  1. Editorial Review

During peer review, the editorial team may verify the accessibility and consistency of the cited supplementary material. In case of inconsistencies, they may request updates before publication.