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Author Guidelines

Recommendations for writing a research article
1. Title/Article (title) in both Thai and English
2. Author name/address (author name & affiliation) in both Thai and English, stating the author's name along with workplace/unit and e-mail of each person who contributed to the research, in order of importance
3. Abstract (abstract) in both Thai and English, summarizing the main points of the topic, using concise language in complete sentences, and should state the objectives, findings and conclusions of the research. Write it as an essay, no abbreviations, should have only one paragraph, written as an essay, no longer than 300 words
4. Keywords (keywords) in both Thai and English, no more than 5 words
5. Introduction (introduction) is an important part that leads to the research, summarizing the background and importance of the problem, document review, and research objectives, and should not include tables or images
6. Research methods (materials and methods) Describe the research tools and methods concisely and clearly, stating details of what was studied, the number, characteristics of the samples studied, as well as the tools and equipment used in the study, sampling, methods or measures used in the study, and data collection methods Methods of data analysis and statistics used
7. Research results (results) Summarize the research results concisely, avoid using redundant words, which have the same meaning as the description in the table or accompanying picture, but have complete content at the top. In the case of tables, to know what content the table conveys. As for images and charts, there should be a description at the bottom. The order of images, tables, or charts should be in order of the content of the research and must have an interpretation of the meaning of the results found or analyzed.
8. Discussion, critique, compare with previous research results with principles. There may be suggestions for future research and guidelines for use.
9. Suggestions for future use and research applications
10. Acknowledgements should be included to express gratitude for sources of funding or research assistants and document preparation.
11. References (references) Arrange Thai documents before English documents and arrange them alphabetically by number of authors. In the case of the same author, arrange them by year.

References in the content of the research article
     Referencing documents in the content of the article is to indicate the source of information in the content of the article, starting with the author's name followed by the year of publication of the document. If the document is in English, use only the last name, followed by the year of publication of the document. If there are 2 authors, state the names of both authors using the word "and". If in English, use "&". But if there are more than 2 authors, use only the first name, followed by "et al.". If in English, use "etal..", such as (Anek et al., 2005) or Anek et al. (2005) (Cauliflower & Flower, 2008) (Lerdau et al., 2012) or Lerdau et al. (2012). In the case of the same author, use letters, such as (Lopez rt al., 2008a, b), depending on the sentence structure. The order of references should be in order of the year of publication first. Then, list them alphabetically, such as (Owen et al., 2003; Loreto et al., 2007; Monsoon et al., 2007).
     In printed materials, if accepted for publication by the journal, use the word in press and include it in the reference list. Unpublished materials (abstracts) include recently submitted materials (submitted), personal communications, personal observations. They should be cited in the text of the article, stating that they are unpublished, such as (Frost & Liang, unpublished; Norby, pers. Comm.; Fitter pers. obs.), but do not need to be included in the reference list at the end of the book.

References to documents at the end of the book should follow the APA (American Psychological Association) system guidelines.