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Author Guidelines

Language

–The language of publication is English or Thai. It is preferred that English manuscripts are professionally edited.

Manuscript types accepted–

–Original articles: of 3000-5000 words excluding references, abstract, tables, illustrations. The paper should be structured to include an abstract, background, objectives, methods, results, discussion, conclusions, and references. In most cases the structure should be:
  •     –Abstract – structured abstract of no more than 200 words
  •     –Background – describing the problem/issue the study seeks to address incorporating a review of the international literature
  •     –Objectives – a clear description of the aims of the study
  •     –Methods – describing research tools/processes use
  •     –Results – a brief summary of main results with figures where appropriate
  •     –Discussion – provide an interpretation of your findings in light of what is already known about the subject and explain how the study moves the subject forward from what is presented in the background section of your manuscript
  •     –Conclusions – primary conclusions and their implications, suggesting areas for further investigation if appropriate
  •     –References


–Review articles: up to 10,000 words including references, abstract, tables, illustrations and key messages; subject to peer review.

Other items: such as letters, short reports, brief news items and book reviews

All manuscripts must include keywords and key messages. If reporting a survey, a copy of the questionnaire should be supplied as part of the appendices.

Keywords – No less than 4 and up to 10 keywords should be provided during the submission. These should be selected from MESH headings available at http://www.nlm.nih.gov/mesh/MBrowser.html

Manuscript Preparation

–The text should be double-spaced throughout and with a minimum of 3cm for left and right hand margins and 5cm at head and foot. Text should be standard 12 point for English manuscript, and 14 point for Thai manuscript.

–Title and Authors Page

  • –Title must be descriptive and concise.
  • –Provide authors’ name and full contact details for the corresponding author including email, mailing address and telephone numbers. Academic affiliations are required for all co-authors. These details should be presented separately to the main text of the article to facilitate anonymous peer review.
  • –Acknowledgments
  • –Conflict of interest

–References

–References must be in the the ICMJE style (http://www.icmje.org/recommendations/browse/manuscript-preparation/preparing-for-submission.html). They should be numbered in the order in which they appear in the text, and these numbers should be inserted as superscripts or square brackets each time the author is cited (Smith [3-5] reported similar findings). Other references to the paper should be given in the same way after punctuation. (For example: other studies have shown this to be true [4,5] Jones et al. [6] demonstrated…) At the end of the article the full list of references should give the names and initials of all authors unless there are more than six, in which case only the first three should be given followed by et al. The authors’ names are followed by the title of the article; the title of the journal abbreviated according to the style of Index Medicus; the year of publication; the volume number; and the first and last page numbers in full. Titles of books should be followed by the place of publication, the publisher, and the year.

–Examples:

–Book
  • –1. Huff D. How to lie with statistics. 4th ed. London: Penguin, 1991, p.51.
–Chapter in book
  • –1. Huff D and Black TL. Comprehensive statistics. In: Miller C and Smith H (eds) How to lie with statistics. 4th ed. London: Penguin, 1991, pp.51–55.
–Journal article
  • –1. Ludbrook J, Miller T and Russel A. Musculovenous pumps in the human lower limb. Am Heart J 1966; 71: 635–641.
  • –2. Araki C, Black TL, Patberg FT, et al. Significance of calf muscle pump function in venous ulceration. J Vasc Surg 1994; 20: 872–879.
–Journal article published ahead of print
  • –1. Ludbrook J. Musculovenous pumps in the human lower limb. Am Heart J. Epub ahead of print 12 June 2011. DOI: 10.1177/09544327167940.
–Website
  • –1. Smith JR. Choosing your reference style. Online Referencing 2(3), http://orj.sagepub.com (2003, accessed 12 October 2008).
–Conference paper
  • –1. Peters J. Musculovenous pumps in the human lower limb. In: ASME conference on automatic transmissions (ed A O’Brien), Pisa, Italy, 29 May–2 June 2003, paper no. GE1234, pp.4–10. New York: ASME.
–Thesis/dissertation
  • –1. Clark JM. Referencing style for journals. PhD Thesis, University of Leicester, UK, 2002.
–Patent and patent applications
  • –1. Smith ST. Referencing styles for journals – a new method. Patent 12346-ZH, USA, 2011.
–Newspaper/magazine
  • –1. Clark JM. Referencing style for journals. The Independent, 21 May 2006, p.10.
–Manual
  • –1. Fiat. Driver’s manual, Fiat Uno 4-litre diesel model, December 2010.
–Standard
  • –1. ISO 27799:2008. Information security management in health.

 

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. Manuscripts may be submitted from any country, and must be written in clear, concise and readable English or Thai. All listed authors should have seen and approved the submitted article.
  2. –If the paper derives from a report or other larger work that is available on the Web, then the content should be substantially different or present a different perspective.
  3. Manuscripts should be uploaded as Word (.doc) files (not write-protected) plus separate figure files. GIF, JPEG, PICT or Bitmap files are acceptable for submission, but only high resolution TIF or EPS files are suitable for printing.

  4. All manuscripts must include keywords and key messages. If reporting a survey, a copy of the questionnaire should be supplied as part of the appendices.

    Keywords – No less than 4 and up to 10 keywords should be provided during the submission. These should be selected from MESH headings available at http://www.nlm.nih.gov/mesh/MBrowser.html

  5. If submitting to a peer-reviewed section of the journal, the instructions in Ensuring a Blind Review have been followed.
 

Copyright Notice

–If all or parts of previously published illustrations are used, permission must be obtained from the copyright holder concerned. It is the author’s responsibility to obtain these in writing and provide copies to the Publishers.

If your paper is accepted, the author identified as the formal corresponding author for the paper will receive an email prompting them to complete the license agreement on behalf of all authors on the paper.

 

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