Policies

For Authors

Article Withdrawal Policy

The articles submitted to the journal can be withdrawn either by the submitted authors. The article can be withdrawn at any time before it is published officially. If the authors want to withdraw the article, we insist on a signed statement from all the co-authors to the journal’s editorial office via mail. If the editorial office/ publisher finds any violation in publishing ethics, guidelines, duplicate submission, plagiarism, etc., publishers hold the right to withdraw/ reject the manuscript at any stage of the publishing process.

Plagiarism Policy

The Sri Lanka Journal of Social Sciences and Humanities has a Zero tolerance policy towards plagiarism. All articles are scanned through Turnitin. Turnitin receipt will be provided to authors with review reports. Authors are requested to check plagiarism at their end also to avoid any unpleasant situation. Please respect the work of other researchers by proper quotation and citation in your article. If any article is found plagiarized, it will not be published in this journal at any cost. The Editorial Board has passed the following actions:

  • Similarity Index above 30% - Article Rejected (NO RESUBMISSION accepted)
  • Similarity Index (15-30%) - Editor may send to the author for improvement
  • Similarity index Less than 15% - Maybe accepted

In case 2 and 3: The authors should revise the article carefully, add required citations, and do good paraphrasing to outsourced text. And resubmit the article with new Turnitin report showing NO PLAGIARISM and similarity below 15%

Copyright Policy

  • The copyright of all work published in the SLJSSH remains with the author(s).
  • Authors are required to grant a license to the publisher, the Faculty of Social Science and Languages, the Sabaragamuwa University of Sri Lanka to publish the work in the Sri Lanka Journal of Social Science and Humanities in all forms of media, whether already known or hereafter modified.
  • As copyright owners, author(s) have the right to publish the work in all forms of media, whether already known or hereafter modified, with the acknowledgment that the work was first published in the Sri Lanka Journal of Social Science and Humanities.