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วารสารการแพทย์แผนไทยและการแพทย์ ทางเลือก Journal of Thai Traditional & Alternative Medicine
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Instructions to Authors (Revised 2023)

Submission Preparation Checklist stracts in a single paragraph, keywords, intro-
ductions, how to review, results, discussions,
1. Types of topics and content in journals conclusions and references. The total length

1) Editor’s Note: This is a communica- of the article should not exceed 12 pages of A4
tion from the editor to the readers to convey paper.
news, articles, and educational reports pre- 4) Original Article: This is the result of
sented in the journal or to express opinions a study, investigation or research; consisting
and feelings that are related to knowledge of a title, the author’s name, an abstract in
or articles that the editors want to make the Thai and English, keywords, an introduction,
reader understand. methodology, results, discussion, a conclusion,
2) Letters to Editor or Correspondence: acknowledgements and references. The total
This is a place to establish contact between length of article should not exceed 15 pages
the editor and the readers and academicians of A4 paper.
or the owners of an article, including in the 5) Special or editor-solicited articles:
case that readers having different opinions or an article in this category can be a semi-
wanting to point out imperfections or errors annotation, a review article, or an opinion
in a report, the editors may criticize, sup- article on current issues or situations in the
port or argue in different cases. In addition, public interest.
letters to the editor can present Preliminary 6) Viewpoints & Perspectives: This is a
Reports, Short Communications, Case Reports place for exchanging and learning academic
or Clinical Notes on an abnormal case, a new information, new concepts or approaches by
disease or a new syndrome that has never been offering opinions or critiques of the subject
reported before or is rarely found. However, it of research or issues that have not yet been
should have complete or sufficient evidence finalized or have opinions in different aspects
to support the article. that are different from the results of that study.
3) Review Article: This is an article that 7) Miscellaneous: This is a small article,
gathers knowledge about a particular subject the native of which may or may not be cate-
from journals or books, both in Thailand and gorized to the types of articles mentioned
abroad, consisting of Thai and English ab- above, such as special articles, semi-interlaced
articles, articles which revived the course, an
The Editorial Board resolved at its 11/1/23 meeting that article showing opinions related to current
the journal needs improvements according to the Scopus
standards. Thus, the Instructions to Authors need to be events that are of public interest, news or
revised as shown below. (Please see details in the Editor’s knowledge which is related to Thai traditional
Note in this issue of the journal.). medicine, folk medicine and alternative medi-

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