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    Author Guidelines

    Manuscripts can be submitted to the journal using the online submission process at http://rjs.ruh.ac.lk/index.php/rjs/index

    Use Times font size 12, double 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 (preferable).

    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
    1    Full 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.

    2. Text body

    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 guidelines but authors may form sections in 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
    (filled by the lead/ or corresponding author of the paper)

    I/We hereby affirm that the results/ findings in this paper are based on the original research work that have 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 arising from the same work. We agree to the condition that this MS will not be submitted for publication until I/we receive the final decision of the RJS, based on peer-review.

    Name of the author:

    Date:

    Signature: (not needed in soft copy)

    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).
    2. Any third-party-owned materials used have been identified with appropriate credit lines, and permission obtained from the copyright holder for all formats of the journal.
    3. All authors have given permission to be listed on the submitted paper and satisfy the authorship guidelines.
    4. The submission file is in OpenOffice, Microsoft Word, RTF, or WordPerfect document file format.
    5. Tables and figures are all cited in the text. Tables are included within the text document, whilst figure files are uploaded as supplementary files.
    6. The text adheres to the stylistic and bibliographic requirements outlined in the Author Guidelines, which is found in About the Journal. Every effort has been made to ensure that author names are removed from the manuscript (following the instructions to ensure blind peer review).

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    Copyright on any research article in Ruhuna Journal of Science is retained by the author(s).

    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.

    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, which 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.

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