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Journal of Political Science Critique publishes academic articles from teachers, scholars, researchers, and graduate students in said fields, whether local or foreign, that fall in the scope of political science, international relations, public administration, sociology, anthropology, Asian study in scope of area studies.

This journal seeks academic papers, for example, academic articles, research articles, review articles, and book reviews. Manuscripts submitted to Journal of Political Science Critique should be original contributions, not published by any other publication (except for research report and thesis), not be considered by any other publication at the same time, not a plagiarized work, not a shortened, or extracted from other people works, which could lead to misunderstanding in results of the research or study. All published articles must be reviewed by experts in related fields and approved by editorial boards.

Author Guideline

1. Type of manuscript
1. Academic article
2. Research article
3. Review article and book review
4. Special article
2. Manuscript template
1. Article name in Thai and English in the center of the paper. Use * and specify the purpose of this article, both in Thai and English, in a left text box in PSC Template.
2. Author’s name, both in Thai and English, without name title at the right side of the paper. Use alphabet and specify the author’s title, affiliated institution, and academic position (if applicable) in Thai and English in a footnote. If there is more than one author, please identify everyone.
3. Abstract in Thai and English, up to 250 words in length.
4. Specify the article’s keyword in Thai and English, up to five keywords.
5. Introduction of the article.
6. Body of the article.
7. Conclusion of the article.
8. Reference materials of the article.
3. Manuscript’s preparation

1. State author’s name, title, academic position (if applicable), Affiliate, province, postal code, country, and e-mail.
2. One copy of the manuscript.
3. Use Microsoft Word program and PSC Template provided at https://so01.tci-thaijo.org/index.php/PSC/about/submissions.
4. Use Times New Roman font size 12 on one-sided A4 paper.
5. Use single space option in line and paragraph spacing. Manuscripts must be between 15 - 20 pages, reference included.
6. References use APA (American Psychological Association) 7^th Edition style.
7. Page Setup.

• Set paper’s top margins to 1 inch or 2.54 cm.
• Set paper’s bottom margins to 1 inch or 2.54 cm.
• Set paper’s left margins to 1.25 inches or 3.175 cm.
• Set paper’s right margins to 1 inch or 2.54 cm.

1. Manuscript submission

                   The manuscript may be submitted by online submission at https://so01.tci-thaijo.org/index.php/PSC. The author must register to the website before submitting can be done.

5. Citation and reference

             1) Use the author-date citation system for in-text citation. Specify the author’s name and publication year before or behind the cited text to state the originality. The page number can be specified if need be.

Author’s name (Publication year, page number) before the cited text.

McCartney & Phillips (2006, pp. 498-499) …………………..

          (Author’s name, publication year, page number) behind the cited text.

          ……………………(McCartney & Phillips, 2006, pp. 498-499)

2) Reference citation use APA (American Psychological Association) 7^th edition style. All the reference material used in the article should be sorted alphabetically under the Reference.

3)This journal uses references in English to support searching for international scholars and those interested but not fluent in the Thai language. If the original used is in a language other than English, please refer to *If using material that’s not in English in the last paragraph.

Reference

Using the American Psychological Association (APA) 7^th Edition referencing style.

1. Book

1 Author.

Author last name, first initial. (year of publication). Book's Title (book edition). Place: Publisher. DOI address, if applicable

example

Caruth, C. (1996). Unclaimed Experience: Trauma, Narrative, and History. Baltimore and Maryland: The Johns Hopkins University Press.

Jackson, L. M. (2019). The psychology of prejudice: From attitudes to social action (2 ed.). American Psychological Association. doi:https://doi.org/10.1037/0000168-000

More than 1 Authors.

1^st author last name, first initial., 2^nd author last name, first initial., … & last author last name, first initial. (year of publication). Book's Title. Place: Publisher.

example

Baber, W. F., & Bartlett, R. V. (2015). Consensus and Global Environmental Governance: Deliberative Democracy in Nature's Regime. The MIT Press.

Editor(s) as Author.

Editor's last name, first initial. (Ed.). (year of publication). Book's Title. Place: Publisher.

example

Brauch, H. G., Liotta, P. H., Marquina, A., Rogers, P. F., & EI-Sayed Selim, M. (Eds.). (2003). Security and Environment in the Mediterranean: Conceptualising Security and Environmental Conflicts. Springer-Verlag.

Translated book

Author last name, first initial. (year of publication). Book's Title (translator first initial. last name, Trans.). Place: Publisher.

example

Lacan, J. (2007). The Other Side of Psychoanalysis: The Seminar of Jacques Lacan Book XVII (R. Grigg, Trans.). New York and London: W.W. Norton & Company.

Miller, J. A. (Ed.). (1998). Encore: The Seminar of Jacques Lacan Book XX (B. Fink, Trans.). New York and London: W.W. Norton & Company. 

2. Book Chapter

Chapter Author last name, first initial. (year of publication). Chapter's Name. In Editor first initial. last name (if Edited book add Ed.), Book's Title (pp. chapter's first page – last page). Place: Publisher.

example

Clapp, J., & Dauvergne, P. (2015). Brief History of International Environmental Cooperation. In S. Nicholson, & P. Wapner (Eds.), Global Environmental Politics: From Person to Planet (pp. 121–136). Paradigm Publishers.

3. Journal

Author last name, first initial. (year of publication). Article's name. Journal's Title, Volume(Issue), article's first page-Last page. DOI address, if applicable

example

Beardsworth, R. (2020). Climate Science, the Politics of Climate Change and Futures of IR. International Relations, 34(3), 374–390.

Grady, J. S., Her, M., Moreno, G., Perez, C., & Yelinek, J. (2019). Emotions in storybooks: A comparison of storybooks that represent ethnic and racial groups in the United States. Psychology of Popular Media Culture, 8(3), 207–217. doi:https://doi.org/10.1037/ppm0000185

4. Website

• Normal website

Author last name, first initial/Corporation/Group/Organization's Name. (year of publication). Title of page: Subtitle (if any).  Website name (if different from author). website URL

example

United Nations Environment Programme. (2019). Global Environment Outlook—GEO-6: Healthy Planet, Healthy People. Cambridge University Press.  https://www.unep.org/resources/global-environment-outlook-6?v=2

Skinner, Q. (2011). A Genealogy of the State (Lecture Transcript).  Clueless Political Scientist. https://cluelesspoliticalscientist.wordpress.com/2017/05/18/a-genealogy-of-the-state-by-quentin-skinner-lecture-transcript/

Xi, Jinping. (2014). Seek Sustained Development and Fulfill the Asia-Pacific Dream. http://www.apec-china.org.cn/41/2014/11/13/3@2580.htm

• News/column/article on the Newspaper/Press website

Author last name, first initial. (year of Publication, Month date). Title of article: Subtitle if any. Title of Newspaper/Press. website URL.

example

Klinfoong, P. (2013, May 9). hai chāo nā pen phū rǣknā : khō̜sanœ̄ prap plīan phithī rǣknākhwan nai samai ratthabān khana rātsadō̜n yu khō̜ton. [Letting farmers be the first to farm: A proposal to change The Royal Ploughing Ceremony during Early period of People's Party government]. Prachatai. https://prachatai.com/journal/2013/05/46660

Khaosod. (2018, January 30). rīan tǣ mēngthongpō̜. [Tae Meng Tong Bo Coin] Khaosod. https://www.khaosod.co.th/newspaper-column/amulets /news_728791.

BBC. (2019, April 17). Kancha: Decha Siripat kab kan cheuy leau peaun manut duay kancha tang kanpat. [Cannabis: Decha Siripat and his mission to save lives with medical cannabis] BBC. https://www.bbc.com/thai/thailand-47944088

5. Conference presentation

Author last name, first initial. (Year, Month Date of conference). Title of Contribution (Type of contribution). Conference Name, Location. DOI or URL if applicable

example

Evans, A. C., Jr., Garbarino, J., Bocanegra, E., Kinscherff, R. T., & Márquez-Greene, N. (2019, August 8–11). Gun violence: An event on the power of community (Conference presentation). APA 2019 Convention, Chicago, IL, United States.

McDonald, E., Manessis, R., & Blanksby, T. (2019, July 7-10). Peer mentoring in nursing - improving retention, enhancing education (Poster presentation). STARS 2019 Conference, Melbourne, Australia. doi:https://unistars.org/papers/STARS2019/P30-POSTER.pdf

6. Thesis/Dissertation

Author last name, first initial. (year of publication). Thesis/Dissertation Title. (Type of material) university's name, Faculty.

example

Zambrano-Vazquez, L. (2016). The interaction of state and trait worry on response monitoring in those with worry and obsessive-compulsive symptoms. (Doctoral dissertation) University of Arizona.

Aieorattanawadee, A. (2019). The "Ganja" discourses in Thai society: criminalization or medicalization. (Doctoral dissertation) Chulalongkorn University, Faculty of Political Science.

Atcharawan, P. (2015). khana ʻongkhamontrī tām ratthammanūn hǣng rātchaʻānāčhak Thai. [The Privy Council Under the Constitution of the Kingdom of Thailand] (Master's Thesis) Chulalongkorn University.

7. Cremation Book/Pamphlet

Author last name, first initial. (year of publication). Book's Title. Name of Cremation ceremony. (Month day of the ceremony) Place: Publisher.

example

Bhanurangsi Savangwongse, the Prince Bhanubandhu Vongsevoradej. (1953). tamnān thahān mahātlek. [Story of the Chamberlain]. ngān phrarātchathān phlœ̄ng sop phon ʻēk phra wō̜ra wong thœ̄ krommamư̄n ʻAdisō̜n ʻudom sak. [Royal Cremation Ceremony of General Phra Worawongse Krommuen Adisorn Udomsak] (June 14). n.p.

8. Royal Gazette

Title. (year of publication) Royal Gazette. (Vol. ). Chapter. (Month Date).

example

kān pœ̄t ratthamontrī saphā. [Opening of the Ministerial Council] (1894). Royal Gazette. (Vol. 11). Chapter 44. (January 26).

9. Constitution

Constitution's name. (year)

example

phrarātchabanyat thammanūn kān pokkhrō̜ng phǣndin Sayām chūakhrāo Phutthasakkarāt sō̜ngphansīrō̜ičhetsiphā. [Temporary Act of Governance of Siam, B.E. 2475] (1932).  

10. Law/Bill

Type of Law. (year). Name of law. (month date).

Example

Notification of the Ministry of Public Health. (2022). Announcement on controlled herbs (Cannabis). (November 23).

If using material that's not in English

Replace Chapter/article/book/etc. 's Name in Thai romanization, then follow with [name translated in English]

* Recommend http://164.115.23.167/plangsarn/ for Thai romanization.

** For ease of verification, please include the original material in their original language in brackets following the translated one.

example

Chuwattananurak, W. (2016). lōkā phi bān : wādūai sing thī yū rawāng sing kao kap sing mai ( thī yang mai kœ̄t ) [Global Governance: On what lies between the Old and As Yet Unborn] In W. Supajakwattana, & W. Buddharaksa (Eds.), wādūai thritsadī ratthasāt læ ratthaprasāsanasāt rūamsamai [On Theories of Political Science and Public Administration] (pp.113-144). Naresuan University Press. (วุฒิกรณ์ ชูวัฒนานุรักษ์. (2559). โลกาภิบาล: ว่าด้วยสิ่งที่อยู่ระหว่างสิ่งเก่ากับสิ่งใหม่ (ที่ยังไม่เกิด). ใน วัชรพล ศุภจักรวัฒนา และวัชรพล พุทธรักษา (บก.), ว่าด้วยทฤษฎีรัฐศาสตร์และรัฐประศาสนศาสตร์ร่วมสมัย (น.113–144). สำนักพิมพ์มหาวิทยาลัยนเรศวร.)

Atcharawan, P. (2015). khana ʻongkhamontrī tām ratthammanūn hǣng rātchaʻānāčhak Thai. [The Privy Council Under the Constitution of the Kingdom of Thailand] (Master's Thesis) Chulalongkorn University. (ปิติภัทร อัจฉราวรรณ. (2558). คณะองคมนตรีตามรัฐธรรมนูญแห่งราชอาณาจักรไทย. (วิทยานิพนธ์นิติศาสตรมหาบัณฑิต) จุฬาลงกรณ์มหาวิทยาลัย, คณะนิติศาสตร์.)

*** Note: All the submitted manuscripts must be prepared according to the provided guideline to be considered for publication. The author’s guidelines and manuscript preparation are at https://so01.tci-thaijo.org/index.php/PSC.