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Author Guidelines

Note: 

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.

Guidelines for manuscript preparation for the initial submission and review process.

 Use Times font size 12, 1.5 line space, unless specified otherwise. After peer review and acceptance, authors will be requested to format the paper according to the template provided separately. Please send the non-pdf version of your manuscript (doc, docx).

1. Title page

 Title: Insert the title, which can have maximum 100 characters with spaces (times font 14)

X. Author ¹ and  Y. Author ²

¹Full affiliation X,  ²Full affiliation Y

Correspondence: ¹email x.x,  ²email Y.Y.

 Abstract. The abstract should summarize the contents of the paper and should contain at least 100 and no more than 250 words.

Keywords. list max of 5 keywords in this section; keywords help to locate your paper in search engines; list with an order from broader to specific keywords. Avoid words in the title.

Author contributions. This is a compulsory statement. State contribution of all authors (contributions to the conception and design, acquisition of data, analysis, and interpretation of data, drafting the article, revising it critically for important inclusions etc.). The corresponding author must ensure that all authors have read and consented to the content of the manuscript being submitted.   

 2.   Main text 

 Title of the paper

(Please do not include author names/ or affiliations)

 Abstract (100% identical to the one given on the title page)

 Text body :

Following are just general section guidelines but authors may form sections in an appropriate manner to the work being reported (esp. for theoretical/ Mathematical papers):

1   Introduction

2   Material and Methods / OR / Statement of Main Results, Definitions etc.

3  Results / OR / Proofs

4  Discussion

Acknowledgements

References

* Please insert the tables and figures at relevant places within the text body.

* Follow the citation format for different publication categories as appeared in a published article of the journal.

3. Author declaration

With each submission, the following declaration should be sent separately to editor_RJS@sci.ruh.ac.lk (filled and signed by the lead/ or corresponding author of the paper). Please attach a scanned copy of the signed document. Until this document is received by the editor, processing will not be commenced.

Title of the Manuscript:.....................................................

Author list ...................................................................... 

I/We hereby affirm that the results/ findings in this paper are based on the original research work that has not been published/ or under consideration of publishing in article form/ or book anywhere else, and the manuscript does not contain any duplication of previously published data/results arising from the same work, or someone else's work.

I/We agree to the condition that this manuscript will not be submitted for publication until I/we receive the final decision of the Ruhuna Journal of Science, based on peer-review.

Name of the corresponding author:

Date:                                                                            Signature: 

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.

1. 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).
2. The submission file is in Microsoft Word, OpenOffice, RTF, or WordPerfect document file format (not in pdf).
3. 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.
4. 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.
5. The text adheres to the stylistic and bibliographic requirements outlined in guidelines under the menu 'About' the Journal.
6. 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.
7. 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.

Copyright on any research article published in RJS is retained by the respective author(s).

Authors who publish with this journal agree to the following terms:

a) Authors retain copyright and grant the journal right of first publication with the work simultaneously licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution License CC-BY-NC 4.0 International, that allows others to share the work with an acknowledgement of the work's authorship and initial publication in this journal.

b) Authors are able to enter into separate, additional contractual arrangements for the non-exclusive distribution of the journal's published version of the work (e.g., post it to an institutional repository or publish it in a book), with an acknowledgement of its initial publication in this journal.

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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