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Submission Preparation Checklist
As part of the submission process, authors are required to check off their submission's compliance with all of the following items, and submissions may be returned to authors that do not adhere to these guidelines.
- The submission has not been previously published, nor is it before another journal for consideration (or an explanation has been provided in Comments to the Editor) (except in abstract form in a conference/ symposium proceedings).
- The submission file is in Microsoft Word, OpenOffice, RTF, or WordPerfect document file format (not in pdf).
- Citations are given in the text within parenthesis (not by numbers), and References are listed alphabetically at the end of the text. Where available, DOI's for the references have been provided.
- The text is 1.5 line-spaced; uses a 12-point font; employs italics, rather than underlining (except with URL addresses); and all illustrations, figures, and tables are placed within the text at the appropriate points, rather than at the end.
- The text adheres to the stylistic and bibliographic requirements outlined in guidelines under the menu 'About' the Journal.
- Corresponding author's ORCID iD is supplied (to obtain a free ORCID, visit https://orcid.org/). ORCID iD of the corresponding author will be displayed on the PDFs of the articles published in RJS.
- Signed 'Author declaration' is sent to the editor_RJS@sci.ruh.ac.lk (see guidelines, item number 3). In case of multiple authors- manuscript, a statement of contributions to the manuscript is included on the title page.
Copyright Notice
From Volume 7 (2016) onwards, all articles published in Ruhuna Journal of Science are Open Access articles published under the Creative Commons CC BY-NC 4.0 International License. This License permits use, distribution and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited and is not used for commercial purposes.
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c) Authors are permitted and encouraged to post their work online (e.g., in institutional repositories or on their website) prior to and during the submission process, as it can lead to productive exchanges, as well as earlier and greater citation of published work (See The Effect of Open Access).
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eISSN: 2536-8400
Print ISSN: 1800-279X (Before 2014)