Submission of Research Paper /Articles

Manuscripts should follow the formatting guidelines of the Sri Lanka Journal of Aesthetic
Studies ( SJAS). Authors are advised to follow the specific template paper when submitting
their manuscripts. The submitted paper will be evaluated by the editorial Board Members to
explore the suitability and relevancy with the scope and coverage of the Journal before sending
to reviewers and a decision will be communicated to the author about further proceedings.
Authors are expected strictly to maintain the 8000-word limit. No article should exceed more
than 5 to 10 pages.

Authors are kindly requested to submit full text papers including results, tables, figures/pictures
and references.

Authors can submit their manuscript by an e-mail to sjas@esn.ac.lk

Submission Preparation Checklist

As part of the submission process, authors are required to check off their submission’s
compliance with all the author guidelines, and submissions may be returned to authors that do
not adhere to these guidelines.

The article has been proofread and corrected for errors

Preparation of Full Paper

The articles that do not meet the standards will be forwarded to authors for the future
improvements.

Full Paper Structure

Each article requested to follow following order

1. Title page with authors and affiliations
2. Abstract and Keywords
3. Main text
4. References

Special note for authors who are preparing manuscript in Tamil

Translation for each Title, Author(s) Name, Corresponding detail, Abstract and
Keywords must be in English.

Format for Typesetting

Manuscripts must be typewritten single line spacing using MS word. Each page must be
numbered

• Paper size: B5 (176 x 250 mm) typed single side only
• Margins: Top, bottom, left and right margins of 25 mm
• Line spacing: Single (1.0)
• Page and line numbering: All pages should be sequentially numbered starting from the
abstract page using Arabic numbers.
• Font and font size: Baamini font for Tamil articles, Times New Roman for English, size 10
• For main heading or title: 14 point, bold
• For Subtitle: 12 points and bold
• Word Limit: 8000 words

Essential Title Page Information

Author Names and Affiliations – Author asked to clearly indicate the name(s) of each author
and Present the authors’ affiliation addresses (where the actual work was done).

For All Authors: Use lower case. Bold the author names. Do not bold the other information.

First Author’s Full Name (Do not abbreviate the primary given name and surname/family
name;
Middle names may be abbreviated; Underline author’s family name)
Department and Work Place (e.g., university or agency name)
City, Province/State, Country (of your work place)
Email address

Second Author’s Full Name (do not abbreviate first and last names; Underline author’s family
name)
Department and Work Place (e.g., university or agency name)
City, Province/State, Country (of your work place)
Email address

Second Author’s Full Name (do not abbreviate first and last names; Underline author’s family
name)
Department and Work Place (e.g., university or agency name)
City, Province/State, Country (of your work place)
Email address

Third, Fourth, Fifth, and other Author’s Full Name (do not abbreviate first and last names;
Underline author’s family name)
(same information as above)

Abstract and Keywords

The article should be submitted with an abstract which is not more than 250 words exactly
conveying the purpose of the research, methods, the principal results, and major conclusions.
Immediate after the abstract 3 to 5 Keywords should be included.

Main content text

Main content text with all Picture/ figures and tables aligned in their location (do not send
tables and figures separately unless requested), list of symbols and abbreviations,
acknowledgement, references (follow standard format).

Tables

All tables should be numbered in order, the word Table may be bolded. The table number
should be properly given, large size tables should be split into two or more tables so that it can
be accommodated within the page size. Table width and cell sizing should be even and all the
content should be centered. Number of the tables should be given over the tables and without
any border, shading

Figures/Pictures

All figure/picture number should be arranged orderly, the figures should not be supplied
separately but pasted in the proper place. Figure number and title should be given below the
figure, the content of the figure should be explained in the title of figure.
Do not give the figures and tables in the last page, provide them wherever necessary in the
article. Provide the figure name and number below the figure and also do not form the images
in two columns.

Acknowledgements

Bring together acknowledgements for required individuals, organizations and institutes in a
separate section at the end of the article before the references

References (APA – Latest edition)

• All references must be arranged in alphabetical order.
• References should be the last part of the article following the below given format:
• Prakash.R., and Ramesh G.R, 2008, Article title, Journal of Performance Studies,
23(2),pp 12-15.
• Prajesh G.,2004, Article title, Journal of Applied Theatre, 45(2), pp 13-17.
• Books: P.K.Gupta., (2006). Introduction to Folk Dance, 3rd. Ed. McGraw Hill Inc, 34-
96.
• Book Chapter: Botkin,J (2006). What do you meant by Traditional Theatre:
Perspectives and Theatre, 3rd edition, E-age Publishing, India.
• Conferences: Ganeshkumar.B, “Contemporary Drama”, International Conference on
Performance Theatre, Eastern University, Sri Lanka, EUSL, pp 234-238.
• Web Pages: Ramesh J (2007) How to draw in Computers. IOP Publishing PhysicsWeb.
http://company.org/articles/news/11/6/16/2. Accessed 26 June 2010.

Reference citation

Please ensure that every reference cited in the text is also present in the reference list
• Single author: the author’s name (without initials) and the year of publication:
• Two authors: Both authors name and also the year of publication of the article.

• Three or more than three authors: First author’s name followed by “et al.”. Example
: Baskaran, 1998: Crish Rabia and John Pedikri, 2008: Podilinski et al., 2004. Citing
web reference can be like the journal article reference.