In this note, we study skew cyclic and skew constacyclic codes over the ring R = F q + uF q + vF q + uvF q where q = p m , p is an odd prime, u 2 = u, v 2 = v, uv = vu. We show that Gray images of a skew cyclic and skew α-constacyclic code of length n are skew quasi-cyclic code of length 4n over F q of index 4. Also, it is shown that skew α-constacyclic codes are either equivalent to α-constacyclic codes or αquasi-twisted codes over R. Further, structural properties, specially, generating polynomials and idempotent generators for skew cyclic and skew constacyclic codes are determined by decomposition method.