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    Author Guidelines

    Journal of Science of the University of Kelaniya

    General

    Manuscripts submitted in all fields of natural and applied sciences are considered for publication in the Journal of Science of the University of Kelaniya on the understanding that they have not been published, submitted, or accepted for publication elsewhere. A submitted manuscript will be initially screened by the chief editor of the journal, and if the manuscript is within the scope of the journal, it will be sent to the reviewers in the respective field for peer review.  Based on the comments and recommendations of the reviewers, the editorial board will take the final decision on the manuscript.

    Types of Papers

    The journal welcomes three types of articles.

    1. Original research papers are original manuscripts that contain new findings in research consistent with the Journal’s aims and scope. Original research papers should not exceed 10000 words.

    2. Review articles 

      should be submitted only after prior consultation with the editors. These should summarize emerging trends or recent developments and should critically evaluate and summarize existing data and fields of research. Review articles should not exceed 10000 words.

    3. Short Communications 

      are suitable for recording the results of complete small investigations or giving details of new methods of techniques and apparatus. Progress reports are not acceptable. Short Communications should contain about 3000 words of text, a maximum of two tables and/or figures, and no more than 20 references..

    Manuscript Structure

    Original Research Articles/Review articles

    • Font-11, Times New Roman,  bold, Sentence Case, left-justified
    • Include page numbers and line numbers (auto-generated) in the manuscript file

    Title

    • If the title is longer than 8 words, please provide a running title for the header
    • The title should be concise and informative.

    Author information

    • The name(s) of the author(s)
    • The affiliation(s) of the author(s), i.e. institution, (department), city, (state), country
    • A clear indication and an active e-mail address of the corresponding author

    • The 16-digit ORCID of the corresponding author: Prior to publication, an ORCID must be provided for the corresponding author. The ORCID is not required for submission, or for peer review, but we will not be able to publish your article online until an ORCID is provided.

    Abstract

    The Abstract should contain 250-300 words. It should clearly explain the novelty of the findings versus current knowledge. The Abstract should not contain any undefined abbreviations or unspecified references.

    Keywords

    This should include 4 to 6 keywords that can be used for indexing purposes.

    Text

    The text of original research articles should be divided into the following sections:

    Introduction

    The Introduction should state the purpose of the investigation and clearly identify the gap of knowledge that will be filled in this study.

    Materials and methods

    The Materials and Methods section should provide enough information to permit the repetition of the experimental work. It should include clear descriptions and explanations of sampling procedures, experimental design, essential sample characteristics, descriptive statistics, the hypothesis tested, exact references to literature describing the tests used in the manuscript, the number of data involved in statistical tests, etc.

    Results and Discussion (separate sections)

    The Results section should describe the outcome of the study. Data should be presented as concisely as possible. Tables and figures should be used appropriately (refer to the guidelines on tables and figures).  The Discussion should be an interpretation of the results and their significance with reference to work by other authors.

    Conclusions

    This section should highlight the major, firm discoveries, and state what the added value of the main finding is, without literature references.

    Statements and Declarations

    The following statements should be included under the heading "Statements and Declarations" for inclusion in the published paper. Please note that submissions that do not include relevant declarations will be returned as incomplete.

    Conflicts of Interests: Conflicts of interest (COIs, also known as ‘competing interests’) occur when issues outside research could be reasonably perceived to affect the neutrality or objectivity of the work or its Authors are required to disclose financial or non-financial interests that are directly or indirectly related to the work submitted for publication.

    Funding statement (If applicable)

    Authors must state how the research and publication of their article was funded, by naming financially supporting body(s) (written out in full) followed by associated grant number(s) in square brackets (if applicable), for example: “This work was supported by the National Research Council of Sri Lanka [grant numbers xxxx, yyyy]”.

    Ethical Clearance statement (If applicable)

    If the study included human or animal objects ethical clearance should be obtained as appropriate and the evidence of ethical approval should be provided.

    References

    References should be cited using the American Psychological Association (APA) 7th edition style. All references in the body of the manuscript should be included in the References section in alphabetical order. If several papers by the same author/s are cited, use a, b, etc. after the year of publication to distinguish papers published by the same author/s in the same year.
    Guide for APA referencing:

    https://apastyle.apa.org/style-grammar-guidelines/references/basic-principles

    Guidelines on Figures and Tables

    • All figures and tables must be placed within the text at the appropriate points, rather than at the end.
    • In the body of the paper, all figures and tables must be cited consecutively in numerical order. Tables and Figures should be numbered with Arabic numerals (Figure 1, Table 1, etc.).
    •  Use (a), (b), (c), etc., to label the parts of figures (Figure 1(a), Figure 1(b), etc.).
    • Tables should always be cited in text in consecutive numerical order.
    • For each table/figure, supply a table caption (title) explaining the components of the table/figure
    • Figures should be supplied in either vector art formats (Illustrator, EPS, WMF, FreeHand, CorelDraw, PowerPoint, Excel, etc.) or bitmap formats (Photoshop, TIFF, GIF, JPEG, etc.). Bitmap images should be of at least 600 dpi resolution 
    • Footnotes to tables /figures should be indicated by superscript lower-case letters (or asterisks for significance values and other statistical data) and included beneath the table body.
    • If the article is accepted, authors will be asked to provide the source files of the figures

    Guidelines on Equations

    Equations that are important, long, complex, or referenced later in the paper are set off from the text (displayed) and may be numbered consecutively with right-justified Arabic numbers within parentheses (1), (2), (3), etc.

    Guidelines on Scientific names, Abbreviations, and Units

    Scientific names of microorganisms, plants, and animals must be used in accordance with the international rules of nomenclature and given in full. SI units and symbols should be used for physical properties.

    Proofs

    Page proof must be corrected immediately on receipt and returned to the Editor-in-Chief.

    Manuscripts should be submitted through the SLJOLonline system (http://www.sljol.info/index.php/JOSUK). Please register as an author in SLJOL online system to submit your manuscripts.

    The Editor-in-Chief,
    Journal of Science of the University of Kelaniya,
    Faculty of Science,
    University of Kelaniya,
    Kelaniya GQ 11600,
    Sri Lanka.
    E-mail: eic_jsuk@kln.ac.lk

    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.

    Copyright Notice

    • Copyright on any research article is transferred in full to University of Kelaniya upon publication in the Journal of Science of the University of Kelaniya. The copyright transfer includes the right to reproduce and distribute the article in any form of reproduction (printing, electronic media or any other form).
    • Articles in the Journal of Science of the University of Kelaniya are Open Access articles published under the Creative Commons CC BY License (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/)
    • This license permits use, distribution and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.

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