Following the ‘hot on the heels’ first five BJSM cover nominees of the past 18 months, we now give you the remaining four contenders. The competition is going to be fierce. This group contains some strong options!

Head over to our Facebook and Twitter (@BJSM_BMJ) pages to vote and share your favourite cover. You can also find us across all our social media channels by searching for the handle #BJSMCoverComp2018. And don’t forget all those who take part in voting for our winners will be entered into a draw for prizes which will include a free conference registration and a copy of Brukner & Khan’s Clinical Sports Medicine.

Once we have collated the results from Rounds 1 and 2 we’ll advance to a four-way final. Your votes do count, so what are you waiting for? The more you like and share your favourites the better chance you have of getting one of those awesome prizes!

Here are the Round 2 nominees….

1. May 2018 – Edited by our Swiss sports medicine colleagues Mario Bizzini and Nicolas Mathieu, this edition highlighted the upcoming Sportfisio conference in Bern, Switzerland. The edition also has FREE access to the highly recommended review on biomechanics and femoroacetabular impingement syndrome, click on the link for access: https://bjsm.bmj.com/content/52/9/566

2. December 2017 – Featured a cityscape of the beautiful Vancouver skyline and the coastal mountains beyond to highlight the 3^rd World Congress of Sports Physiotherapy to be held in October 2019. The edition also featured FREE access to a review of prediction factors for patellofemoral pain outcomes. Accessible here: https://bjsm.bmj.com/content/51/23/1650

3. July 2018 – BJSM has always been at the forefront of knowledge translation. Our dedication to social media to further a clinician’s access to the information that enhances practice cannot be questioned. To that end, our July cover featured a graphic designed to highlight our IOS and Android mobile app and other social channels. The edition has FREE access to an umbrella review of physical activity and cancer. It also features an interesting OPEN access editorial on the use of placebos in the sporting environment – https://bjsm.bmj.com/content/52/13/817

4. August 2018 – Our final cover of the 2^nd round and last entrant into the competition is possibly our most artistic. To highlight the recent ‘Sporting Mind’ conference in London we had our in-house medical illustrator, Vicky Earle (@drawinnature) design a striking image of the brain. The edition also featured one of the most influential consensus statements we have published to date on the assessment, treatment and prevention of ankle sprains. FREE access is available here: https://bjsm.bmj.com/content/52/15/956

That completes the 2018 line-up and you now have access to the remaining four covers in this 2nd round.

You may wish to vote based on your favourite artistic image (which we hope you will) but also feel free to vote for cover of the journal you found had the biggest impact on your practice. By whatever means you decide, please do let us know by sharing your thoughts with us here at BJSM via our social media channels.

Remember to follow the progress and help everyone else keep track of your thoughts by using the #BJSMCoverComp2018 hashtag! Now get voting!