Guidelines for abstract submission

1. General instructions. The abstract should have a uniform style as follows:

Title

​Name(s) of the author(s)
​​Affiliation(s)
​​Email address of the corresponding author

​Text (should consist of brief Introduction, Objective, Methodology, Results, Discussion, Conclusion/without headings).

Page: B5

Word Count: Abstract should be one paragraph with a maximum of 350 words

Keywords: Up to 5 words

Margins: Left: 2 cm; Right: 1.5 cm; Top and Bottom: 1.5 cm.

​Line Spacing:
Between Title and Names – 1.5
Between Names and affiliations and email – single
Between Email and the main body of text – single
Within Text – 1.15

Font: English – Times New Roman, Sinhala – FM Abhaya, Tamil – Bamini

2. Title:
Bold, center aligned font size 14 and the first letter of each word in uppercase letters. No spaces above the title and 1.5 lines spaced below the title.

3. Name/s of Author/s & Affiliation/s:
Bold, Center aligned, font size 11, name/s with initials, a single-spaced between names and affiliations

4. E-mail address of the corresponding author:
Center aligned, in italics, font size 9, a single-spaced between affiliations and e-mail address

5. Text:
Font Size: 12
Text justified with 1.15 line spacing.

6. Keywords:
3 – 5 keywords in Italics. 12 size font, left aligned. 1.15 space between the body of text and keywords.

7. Electronic Format:
ICICH accepts only digital manuscripts. Abstracts must be submitted only in word.doc/ word.docx format.

Submission for the abstract:
Send your abstract to the following email address: icich@sjp.ac.lk

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