The abstract and the extended abstract must report original research.

(ii) An author may submit one abstract as a single author and one abstract as a co-author OR submit no more than four abstracts as a co-author.

(iii) The title should be concise and clearly describe the reported study. Capital letters should only be used for the first letter of the first word in the title and proper nouns.

(iv) The author/s names and addresses. Capital letters should be used only for the initials and the first letters of authors’ surnames. The address of the Institution where the work was carried out should be included under the author’s name. If the collaborators are from different Institutions, the addresses of the Institutions should be included in the brief. In this case, the addresses of the co-authors should be indicated by a number in superscript after the authors’ names and before the respective addresses (as shown below).

Example (multiple authors): Menikpurage, D. T. U.1, Abeytunga, L.2, & Wijesundara, K. J.3 1Department of Chemistry, University of Colombo, Sri Lanka. 2, 3 Department of Plant Sciences, University of Colombo, Sri Lanka.

(v) The text of the abstract should not exceed 300 words, and the extended abstract should not exceed 2000 words.

(vi) The extended abstract should contain: Introduction, Methodology, Findings, and Conclusions.

(vii) Standard abbreviations of SI units should be used.

(viii) The abstract and the extended abstract should be coherent and free of language errors.

(ix) Two copies of the abstract should be submitted electronically on separate pages of a single Word document. The first copy should contain the name(s) of the author(s) and institutional affiliations. The second copy should carry only the title and the text and should not contain the name(s) of the author(s) and place(s) where the research has been carried out.

(x) A maximum of five keywords should be provided.

(xi) Acknowledgements should be restricted to the names of funding agencies providing sponsorship.

xii) Use font “Times New Roman” size 11 with 1.5 spacing on A4 paper.