Announcements

From September 1st, 2019, the Asia-Pacific Journal of Science and Technology would like to announce that

 

I. Reference style will be changed to the Vancouver style as follows:

 Text: Indicate references by number(s) in square brackets in line with the text.

 List: Number the references in the list in the order in which they appear in the text 

 

Examples:

 

Reference to a journal publication:

[1]   Orange J, Green JAJ, Purple J, Orange W, White EB, Black AB, et al. The power of colors and love. J Sci Commun 2018;163:51–59.

 

Reference to a book:

[2]   White Jr W, Orange EB. The elements of colors. 10th ed. Seattle: Longman; 2017.

 

Reference to a chapter in an edited book:

[3]   Orange LB. How to make a powerful color. In: White BS, Black RZ, editors. Introduction to the basic of color, New Jersey: E-Publishing Inc; 2009, p. 281–304.

 

Reference to a website:

[4]   US Scientific Research. US FDA approval list, https://www.usfda/ druglist/; 2003 [accessed 13 March 2018].

 

Reference to a dataset:

[5]   White T, Black M, Orange K. Health data for Japanese population, Mendeley Data, v1; 2018. https://doi.org/10.17632/ xwj98nb39r.1.

 

Note.

 The authors take responsibility of reference accuracy.

 Journal abbreviations source and journal names should be abbreviated according to Index Medicus journal abbreviations: https://www.nlm.nih.gov/tsd/serials/lji.html; List of title word abbreviations: https://www.issn.org/2-22661-LTWA-online.php;

 

II. The heading for manuscript. The heading for main text of the manuscript is as follows:

  1. Introduction
  2. Materials and methods
  3. Results
  4. Discussion
  5. Conclusions
  6. Acknowledgements
  7. Conflicts of interest
  8. References

 

APST is ranked in Q3/Q4 in SCImago.

2020-06-18

We are pleased to announce that APST is ranked in Q3 (Engineering (Miscellaneous)) and Q4 (Agricultural and Biological Sciences (Miscellaneous) and Medicine (Miscellaneous)) according to SJR in SCImago.

Instruction to author

2019-08-26

Suggested Potential Reviewers

The authors must suggest at least 3 potential reviewers to review their submitted paper. Only one reviewer from their countries is allowed. Those reviewers should not be, in one way or another, related to some of the authors. If the aforementioned criteria are not met, the paper will be rejected before sending to a handling editor. It should be noted that the editor may or may not choose those suggested reviewers. 

Manuscript Preparation

     Manuscript should be written in American English or British English language. Manuscript should be concise and clear in presentation. References and figures should be cited in only English language. Before submission, the English version should be reviewed and corrected by an English expert before submission. The International System of Units (SI) is used for the metric system. Format The manuscript must be submitted in word format size A4 not more than 15 pages including title page, tables and figures with top, bottom, left and right margin of 1 inch from the border. It should be typed in only one column and single spacing. Every line should have numeric identification. Time New Roman, point size 10 should be set consistently in English articles, point size 12 for titles, point size 10 for contents, consistently. The pages should be numbered consecutively at the top-right hand corner. The manuscript should be appeared in the following orders (as appropriate).

 Format

     The manuscript must be submitted in word format size A4 not more than 15 pages including title page, tables and figures with top, bottom, left and right margin of 1 inch. from the border. It should be typed in only one column and single spacing. Every line should have numeric identification. Time New Roman, point size 10 should be set consistently in English articles, point size 12 for titles, point size 10 for contents, consistently. The pages should be numbered consecutively at the top-right hand corner. The manuscript should be appeared in the following orders (as appropriate).

1. Title page

             1.1 Title should be concise and typed in a bold style, point size 12. Abbreviation should be avoided in the title.

             1.2 Every first letter should be capital letters.

             1.3 All authors full and last name without academic title and rank should be inserted. Middle name should be abbreviated to initial letter accompanied by a full-stop “.”. Join each author’s name by the symbol “,” and the last author with “and”.

             1.4 Every author’s name should have English superscript in order to refer their brief address. In addition, the superscript will include province, country, and postal number. For corresponding author, “*” should be used at the last letter.

             1.5 The corresponding author should be marked and provide contact address with the e-mail address in a bottom of left side of first page.

2. Abstract

            Abstract should be prepared not to exceed 250 words including objectives, methodology, results and conclusion. Manuscript written in Thai language must have abstract in both Thai and English language.

3. Keywords

             A maximum of keyword of 3-5 words should be appeared at the bottom of the abstract. A good keyword should not use conjunction like “and, or”. The term “keyword” should be separated by comma “,”.

4. Main content

             4.1 Main content Start second-level headings at the left margin in italics but not boldface.

             4.2 Start second-level headings at the left margin in italics but not boldface.

             4.3 Original article should consist of the following sessions; Introduction, Materials and Methods, Results, Discussion, Conclusion, Acknowledgement (complimentary), and References. Tables and figures with legends should be placed in articles as close as possible to where they are mentioned in the text.

             4.4 Review article should consist of the following sessions; Introduction, Text, Summary, Acknowledgement (complimentary), and References.

5. Digital Images and Figures 

             5.1 Image files should be named as a number without space, special alphabets and saved as a TIFF (.tif). Do not save the files from Microsoft Power Point due to low resolution. Moreover, all panels should be in a single file. Line drawings should be of high resolution and high contrast. For color or greyscale photographs (halftones), use a minimum of 300 dpi (.TIFF or .JPG).

             5.2 Figures do not upload Excel files or images for tables. Use the table function of Microsoft Word.

             5.3 Image resolution should present as follow;

                   5.3.1 Photographic image and line art should be at a minimum of 600 dpi.

                   5.3.2 Only photographic image should be at a minimum of 300 dpi.

                   5.3.3 Only line art should be at a minimum of 1,000 dpi.         

            5.4 Black and white halftone artwork should be saved in the grayscale mode, and color artwork should be saved in the RGB mode to be displayed online. The RGB mode will switch to the CMYK mode for publication creating a slight change of color. Therefore, images and figures should be checked in the CMYK mode. If authors have color images and figures to be adopted, the authors have to pay for the additional cost.

             5.5 Every letter in the images and figures and description below should be written only in English. The term “Figure” should be followed by number typed in a bold style, flushed left. The images and figures should appear preceding their contents. Each page will have only one image and figure with description below.

             5.6 Composite figures should be used A, B, C, etc, to label.

             5.7 Figure legends, the figure title should be located as the first line. The symbols, nomenclature, abbreviations and units should match used in a figure and text. The figure legends should not be longer than about 200 words.

6. Tables

                Tables with legends should be placed in articles as close as possible to where they are mentioned in the text. Names of tables and description should be written in only English. Do not upload Excel files for tables. Use the table function of Microsoft Word. Avoid vertical lines and unnecessary horizontal lines.

7. Formulas

               Formulas should be run by the Equation Editor or Math Type in order to avoid inaccuracy.

8. Graphs

               Graphs should be labeled on the ordinate and abscissa with scale of parameter. Simple solid or open symbols (▲, ∆, ■, ○) should be represented. Use boxes or heavy lines and avoid screen shading and light lines. The definitions of symbols appear in the figure legend.

9. Approved database

                The data sets of science especially biotechnology must be deposited in an approved database (examples in below), any data must be include a specific access address in published paper.

 ñ DNA and protein sequences: GenBank, SWISS-PROT

 ñ Molecular structure data: Protein Data Bank, Macromolecular Structure Database, Electron Microscopy Data Bank, BioMag Res Bank

 ñ Microarray data: ArrayExpress, Gene Expression Omnibus

10. Results

                  The research results should be presented clearly and right to the point with accompanying figures and tables. These figures and tables should be referred to in the content. Explanation must not repeat what is already given in the content.

11. Discussion

                  Research discussion is aimed at persuading readers by comparing with other research studies and proposing possible solutions or useful suggestions for solving certain research outcomes, etc. Research results and discussion can be written in one section.

12. References

                The References part should follow the Vancouver style, and only in English. Please ensure that every reference cited in the text is also present in the reference list. Use an Arabic number in parenthesis after the referred statement. For example, [1] or [2-4, 8, 10] refers to Author 1 or 2, 3, 4, 8, 10 ordering from 1, 2, 3,...to the last number which appear in the reference list. The maximum number of references is not more than 30 articles. “Unpublished observations” and “personal communications” are not allowed to be the references.