Author Guidelines
The Sabaragamuwa University Journal is a refereed journal and accepts articles from all academic disciplines.
Articles should be up to 20 pages including a brief Abstract of less than 200 words. Abstracts first state the central research problem(s), then the method(s) employed, and finally the central conclusion(s).
Articles must be typed using Microsoft Word, Californian 9 Font, double-spaced, on one side only of white A4 paper or US equivalent.
Titles and headings should be brief and clear, in bold type.
Longer quotations should be indented, single-spaced and without quotation marks.
Non-English terms should be in italics e.g. chena or sine qua non.
Date format used in text: 6 April 2007.
In text, use either ‘percent' or % consistently. Use letters for numbers from one to ten and numerals from 11 onwards; but use numerals or letters consistently in range or series of numbers, eg. 5 to 10.
Use British (labour) spelling consistently.
Titles of figures or tables should be in bold type and titles of tables should be placed above and figures should be placed below and notes and sources for the same under each figure or table. They should be numbered consecutively, separately for tables and figures. Column headings should clearly define the data presented. Table borders should be in ¾ point and simple.
Figures which cannot be reproduced in MS Word should be submitted on a separate A4 sheet accompanied by concise information about titles, notes and sources, as well as their location in the text.
Use either footnotes or endnotes; these should be in standard MS Word format.
First draft should be submitted as a hard copy only. Final drafts should be submitted as a hard copy and a soft copy (to be emailed, soft copy: Text, Tables and Figures should be in separate files).
All quoted and paraphrased intellectual property of other authors, as well as other works of the contributing author(s) must be properly referenced.
Works cited in the text should be indicated as follows: (Pathirana, 2005) or (Gombrich and Obyesekara, 1990) i.e. author(s), year of publication: page number(s). Use ‘et al' when citing a work by more than two authors, but include all the authors under References.
To distinguish citations of different works of the same author published in the same year, use letters, i.e. (Perera, 2005a, 2005b).
All works cited in the text, including sources for tables and figures must be listed alphabetically under References. Use the following style:
From Books:
Cleaver, T. (2006) Understanding the World Economy, London: Routledge.
From Contribution to book:
Iyengar, K.R.S. (1961) ‘The Literature of India' in The Commonwealth Pen: An Introduction to the Literature of the British Commonwealth, McLeod, A.L. (ed.), New York: Cornell University Press.
From Journal article:
Chikumba, S. (2007) Present and Future Opportunities in Industrial Attachment Training for Industrial and Manufacturing Engineers in Zimbabwe. Zimbabwe Journal of Educational Research, v. 19 (1), pp. 85-98.
From Conference papers:
Bartlett, K. R. (2001) A study of human resource development in indigenous firms and multi-national corporations in East and
Southeast Asia' in OA Aliaga (ed.), Academy of Human Resource Development: proceedings of the 2001 conference, Tulsa, Oklahoma, February 28 -March 4, 2001, Academy of Human Resource Development, Los Angeles, U.S., pp. 71-77.
From Unpublished work:
Gunasekera, T. (1974) Deity Propitiation in Urban Sri Lanka, Unpublished M A. thesis, University of Edinburgh.
