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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.
  • The submission has not been previously published, nor is it before another journal for consideration (or an explanation has been provided in Comments to the Editor).
  • The submission file is in OpenOffice, Microsoft Word, or RTF document file format.
  • The text is single-spaced; uses TH Niramit AS, 16-point font; employs italics, rather than underlining (except with URL addresses); and all illustrations, figures, and tables are placed within the text at the appropriate points, rather than at the end.
  • Where available, URLs for the references have been provided.
  • The text adheres to the stylistic and bibliographic requirements outlined in the Author Guidelines.

Author Guidelines

Research Template l Academic Template

1. General matters
The manuscript must be in Thai or English. All pages should be numbered consecutively. The first page of the manuscript should contain: (1) the main title; (2) all authors’ names, affiliations, and email addresses; (3) an abstract of not more than 500 words; (4) up to five keywords. The second page should contain the same data, except (2). All text must be in a one-column format and justified.

2. Abstract
The abstract of a research article should contain theme sentence(s), research objectives, research methods, and research results. Research arguments and recommendations should be given if applicable. An abstract should not contain a reference or a footnote.

3. Body text
The main title of a research article should contain the following: (1) an introduction giving the background and rationale of the research; (2) objectives; (3) methods; (4) results and discussion; (5) conclusion; (6) acknowledgements; and (7) references. A recommendation is optional depending on the type and discipline of the research.

4. Figure and table captions
Figures and tables must be numbered separately. For example: Figure 1 Research conceptual framework; Table 1 Input data. Figure captions are to be centered below the figures. Table titles are to be above the tables.

5. Headings

5.1 First-order headings should be TH Niramit AS 16-point boldface, each word capitalized, flush left, with one blank line before, and one blank line after.

5.2 Second-order headings should be TH Niramit AS 16-point boldface, each word capitalized, flush left, with one blank line before, and no blank line after.

5.3 Third-order headings are discouraged. However, if you must use them, use TH Niramit AS 16-point boldface, capitalize first word, indent, no blank line, and number.

6. Footnotes
Use footnotes sparingly and place them at the bottom of the page. Use TH Niramit AS 14-point type, single-spaced.

7. References

Following the APA (Modified) style, references should be cited in the text by giving the last name of the author(s) followed by the year of publication in parentheses, e.g. Barton and Hall (1993); (Olson, 1991a, 1991b). Citations of particular pages should be in the following form (Jacobs,1992: 5).

The full references must be at the end of the manuscript, in alphabetical order. They should include all authors’ names and initials, year of publication, title of article or book, the full title of the journal, volume, issue (if any) and page numbers, and for books and other print sources, the publisher’s name and place of publication.

Example of References
Books
Aasen, C. (1998). Architecture of Siam: A cultural history interpretation. Kuala Lumpur: Oxford University Press.

Gupta, A. and Ferguson, J. (Eds.). (1997). Anthropological locations: Boundaries and grounds of a field science. Berkeley: University of California Press.

Translated Books 
De Certeau, M. (1984). The practice of everyday life (S. Rendall, Trans.). Berkeley: University of California Press.

Articles in Book
Muecke, M. (1981). Changes in women status associated with modernization in northern Thailand. In G.B. Hainsworth (Ed.). Southeast Asia: Women, changing structure, and cultural continuity. (pp. 53-65). Ottawa: University of Ottawa Press.
 
Articles in Journal
Deng, R. and Lyttleton, C. (2013). Linked spaces of vulnerability: HIV risk amongst migrant Dai women and their left-behind husbands in Southwest China. Culture, Health and Sexuality, 15(3), 415-428. 
 
Website
Bontas, E. P. (2005). Practical experiences in building ontology-based retrieved systems. Retrieved January 20, 2006, from https://userpage. fu-berlin.de/~paslaru/papers/swcase2005.pdf
 
Interview
Sukjeen, A. (August 22, 2015). Interview. Buddhist Cultures in Lanna. The Palm Leaf Manuscript Institute of Wat Sung Men.

 
Thesis
Boonmathya, R. (1997). Contested concepts of development in rural northeastern Thailand. Ph.D. Dissertation, Department of Anthropology: University of Washington, U.S.A.

Nuankoksoong, P. (1998). Morale of the personnel of the Office of Accelerated Rural Development in the northeast. Master thesis in Development Sociology, Graduate School: Khon Kaen University.
 
Conference Papers
Hirata, K., Takaoka, Y., Ohta, M., and Ikeda, M. (2001). The meaning of LOM and LOM authority tool on HRD. In DC-2001 Proceedings of the international conference on Dublin Core and metadata applications 2001. (pp. 259-262). Tokyo: National Institute of Informatics (NII).

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