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Manuscripts can be submitted to the journal using the online submission process at http://rjs.ruh.ac.lk/index.php/rjs/index
Types of manuscripts
RJS accepts original scholarly research articles (full research papers) and short papers/ communications (less than 10 manuscript pages) across a broad spectrum of pure and applied sciences, and interdisciplinary sciences. Review articles and editorials are not published in RJS. Final decision on the type of the paper will be taken by the editorial board on the recommendations given by the reviewers considering the depth of the research work and the length of the manuscript. Manuscript submission is online only after user registration as an author; please visit http://rjs.ruh.ac.lk/index.php/rjs/about/submissions#authorGuidelines for further details for registration and submission guidelines.
Guidelines for manuscript preparation
Use Times font size 12, 1.5 line space. After peer review and acceptance, authors will be requested to format the paper according to the template provided separately. Please upload the non-pdf version of your manuscript saved as a word processing file (doc, docx). Further details are
1. Title page
Title: Title can have maximum 100 characters with spaces (times font 14)
X. Author 1 and Y. Author 2
1 Full affiliation X, 2 Full affiliation Y
Correspondence: 1email x OR 2email Y.
Keywords. list max of 5 keywords; keywords help to locate your paper in search engines; list with an order from broader to specific keywords. Avoid repeating words included already in the title.
Running title: A meaningful short running title to be used in page headers of the paper should be given (Max: 50 characters without space). If not given, editors may add one.
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. Signed ‘Author declaration form’ should be sent at the initial submission of the manuscript.
2. Main text
Title of the paper (Please do not include author names/ or affiliations)
Abstract: The abstract should summarize the contents of the paper and should contain at least 100 and no more than 250 words.
Text body: Following are just general section guidelines in a full article, but authors may form sections in an appropriate manner to the work being reported (esp. for theoretical/ Mathematical papers):
In a short paper, introduction, Materials and Methods, Results and Discussion, Acknowledgements (if any) and References.
* Please insert the tables and figures at relevant places within the text body.
References
The references in the manuscript should follow the APA referencing style. The manuscript body should have the citation in text given by the last name of the first author and the year of publication, not listed by numbers, and the references cited together in the text should be arranged chronologically (e.g. Abeywickrama 1960; John and Smith 1982; Foell et al. 1999). The list of references should be written in alphabetical order on the last name of the lead author, and chronologically for the same author. Publications by the same author(s) in the same year should be listed as 1982a, 1982 b, etc. Few types of references are given in the examples below, and authors are requested to see a recent article published in RJS for further details.
Abeywickrema BA. 1960. Estuarine vegetation of Ceylon. Proceedings of the Abidjan Symposium on the Humid Tropics. Paris, France: UNESCO, 207–210.
Foell J, Harrison E, Stirrat RL. 1999. Participatory approaches to natural resource management – the case of coastal zone management in the Puttalam District. Summary Findings of DFID-Funded Research ‘Participatory Mechanisms for Sustainable Development of Coastal Ecosystems’ (Project R6977). Falmer, Brighton, UK: School of African and Asian Studies, University of Sussex.
Johnstone IM. 1983. Succession in zoned mangrove communities: where is the climax? In: HJ Teas (ed.) Tasks for vegetation science 8. Dr. W. Junk Publishers, The Hague, The Netherlands. 131–139 pp.
Michalewicz Z. 1996. Genetic Algorithms + Data Structures = Evolution Programs. 3rd edn. Springer-Verlag, Berlin Heidelberg New York 178 pp.
Wedagedera JR, Burroughs NJ. 2006. T cell activation: a queuing theory analysis at low agonist density. Biophysics Journal 17 (4): 1207-1230.
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:
Peer Review
Ruhuna Journal of Science uses a double-blind review process. Generally two peer reviewers are chosen for the peer review. Peer reviewers are ideally experts in their field. The editor is responsible for the overall editorial process and coordination. Typically the journal asks the reviewers to complete their reviews within 3-4 weeks.
Copyright
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 Attribution License CC-BY-NC 4.0 International. This License permits use, distribution and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited and is not used for commercial purposes.
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.
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.
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.