Publication Ethics

• Funding for the Sri Lanka Journal of Siddha Medicine (SLJSM) publication is exclusively from Faculty of Siddha Medicine, Trincomalee Campus, Eastern University funds. Also, research funders should be acknowledged by the authors of the research papers.
• SLJSM publishes only original works of the authors that have not been published earlier either in printed format or electronically. All authors of manuscripts submitted to the SLJSM must confirm that neither the manuscript nor any part of it, regardless of the language in which it was originally written or published, has been published or is under consideration for publication or accepted for publication elsewhere. Further, authors are expected to be knowledgeable of and comply with best practices in publication ethics, specifically with regard to authorship, dual submission, plagiarism, manipulation of figures, competing interests and compliance with policies on research ethics.
• Authors should be followed applicable copyright laws and conventions. Copyright material should be reproduced only with appropriate permission and acknowledgement. Relevant previous work and publications, both by other researchers and the authors’ own, should be properly acknowledged and referenced. The primary literature should be cited both in the text and in the reference list. Authors should inform editors if findings have been published previously or if multiple reports or multiple analyses of a single data set are under consideration for publication elsewhere. Authors should provide copies of related publications or work submitted to other journals.
• Copyrights of the published papers are with the authors, and SLJSM takes the responsibility of publishing the manuscript only. Editors of SLJSM are devoted not to discriminate against the authors on the grounds of gender, age, experience, social status, occupation, sexual orientation, working institution, colour of the skin, religious or political beliefs, or ethnic or geographical origin. All the papers published by the SLJSM are solely on a merit basis.

Outline

• SLJSM is a double-blind peer-reviewed journal that ensures the highest values of publication ethics. All stakeholders of the journal, such as the Editors, Authors, Reviewers and Publishers, have to agree upon the total ethical behavior in this context. The Publication Ethics of this Journal is based on the Code of Conduct and Best Practice Guidelines for Journal Editors of the Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE) (https://publicationethics.org/)