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Author Guidelines

The College of Ophthalmologists of Sri Lanka publishes original articles in Ophthalmology, original work on Ophthalmology and related Sciences presented at meetings, congresses of the College as well as lectures, seminars and symposia associated with the College. Articles subject to editorial revision, may not be reproduced without permission after publication. Statements in the articles are the sole responsibility of the authors and not reflect the opinion or attitude of the College or the editors.

Manuscripts typed in double spacing with 1” margin on both sides in 12 point Times Roman font in Microsoft Word software should be e-mailed to the editors immediately after the Annual Congress in order that they could be included in the Journal of the same year. Any scientific paper or research paper related to ophthalmology, will be accepted for publication.

Title page should be typed on a separate page and should bear the names of authors, their present posts and the place where the work was carried out. The title should be brief and meaningful to facilitate indexing. If authorship is limited to direct participants, all other contributors to patient care must be acknowledged. The usual plan, a short summary, introduction, materials and methods, results, discussion and bibliography should be followed, whenever possible.

Wherever ethical clearance is needed, the obtaining of clearance must be acknowledged in the text.

Only standard abbreviations and SI units should be used in the text. Drugs should be designated by their generic names.

Illustrations such as graphs, charts and drawings should be prepared on the computer and cited in the text. Legends should be typed on a separate page.

Photographs, x-rays, photomicrographs must be of good quality suitable for publication and magnifications indicated. Legends and captions should be typed on a separate page. Authors may be called upon to bear the cost of colour illustrations.

Tables should have a title, numbered consecutively, typed in double spacing and submitted in separate page and cited in the text.

References should be double-spaced, arranged alphabetically, by author, and cited by superior numbers in the text. Reference must be to primary publications, not to citations of the articles in other publications.

Please provide complete publication data. Including first and last page numbers. “in press” articles may be included; the journal must be specified. Presentations and manuscripts “submitted for publication” are considered unpublished communication and, should be acknowledged in the text or footnotes, but should not be listed with published references. Published abstracts may be included but should be labelled “abstract”. Use Index Medicus style of abbreviation, and punctuation. Some typical examples follow: note the absence of periods after initials and abbreviations. When there are 5 or more authors, name the first three, “et al”.

Journal Articles
1. Smith JD. Ophthalmology and the medical community. Surv Ophthalmol 1996; 41: 1-30.

2. Smith JD, Jones TS. Ophthalmology and society. Surv Ophthalmol 1997; 42: 65-78.

Books
3. Smith JD, Jones TS. Public JQ, et al. Ophthalmology and the World. Boston. Bayside Press, 1997, pp 1-9.

Chapters
4. Stevens JT. A transcendentalist’s view of optics, in Smith JD (ed): Ophthalmology and the Universe, Vol. 6. Part 3. Boston, Bayside Press, 1997. ed 2, pp 230-245.

Proofs will be submitted to the first named author to be returned within 4 days. No major alterations could be accepted at this stage. Requests for reprints must be made direct to the printer and paid for by the author. No free reprints will be supplied.

Articles to be emailed to
The Editors, Journal of the College of Ophthalmologists of Sri Lanka
Email: ophsleye@gmail.com

Submission Preparation Checklist

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

1. The submission has not been previously published, in part or in whole, nor is it before another journal for consideration (or an explanation has been provided in Comments to the Editor).
2. All third-party-owned materials used have been identified with appropriate credit lines, and permission has been obtained from the copyright holder for all formats of the journal. Authors acknowledge their responsibility to gain all permissions prior to submission.
3. All authors qualify as authors, as defined in the authorship guidelines, and have given permission to be listed on the submitted paper.
4. The text adheres to the stylistic and bibliographic requirements outlined in the Author Guidelines. Every effort has been made to ensure that the submission is ready for peer review according to the journal's review policy (following the instructions to ensure blind peer review).
5. Tables are all cited in the main text and are included within the text document.
6. Figures are all cited in the main text and are uploaded as supplementary files. Figures/images have a resolution of at least 150dpi (300dpi or above preferred). The files are in one of the following formats: JPG, TIFF, GIF, PNG, EPS (to maximise quality, the original source file is preferred).
7. All patients included within case reports or other article types in which an individual or a group of individuals can be identified have signed informed consent forms, or had had their legal guardian do so, giving permission to publish the submitted content under a CC-BY licence.
8. Research has been approved by an appropriate ethics committee, with the name of the committee and reference number of approval included within the submitted file. Otherwise, a statement that ethics approval was not required has been added to the file.

Copyright Notice

Copyright of articles in the Journal of College of Ophthalmologists of Sri Lanka is retained by the author(s).

From October 2022, articles in the Journal of the College of Ophthalmologists of Sri Lanka are licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License which permits unrestricted use, distribution and reproduction in any medium provided the original author and source are credited.

Should any authors require that the published article deviate from the above (e.g. copyright needs to reside with your employer or an alternative license is required - e.g. authors who are Crown employees), you must add this request to your cover letter to the editor. The submitting author is responsible for requesting (and following up) this deviation from the standard licensing agreement. All deviations from the above must be agreed in writing as early as possible in the submission process.

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