Plagiarism, including duplicate publication of the author's own work, in whole or in part without proper citation is not accepted by the journal. All manuscripts submitted for publication to JOSUK are cross-checked for plagiarism using URKUND/ Turnitin software.

Journal of Science of the University of Kelaniya will consider manuscripts for review even if they have previously been available as preprints. Authors may also post the submitted version of a manuscript to a preprint server at any time. Authors are requested to update any pre-publication versions with a link to the final published article.