Submissions

Author Guidelines

The Thai Journal of Trauma strongly recommends to the authors of the manuscript to observe and follow the code on good publication practice produced by the Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE), the uniform requirements for manuscript and potential conflicts of interest reporting produced by ICMJE and the EQUATOR network resource center for good research reporting.

Manuscript Preparation: The manuscript, on data file must be submitted, including all illustrations, legends, and references. The submission file is in Microsoft Word, or RTF document file format. All must be typed single-spaced; uses a 12-point font, Times New Roman in English-based article or 16-point font, Angsana New in Thai-based article; employs italics, rather than underlining (except with URL addresses); and all illustrations, figures, and tables are placed within the text at the appropriate points, rather than at the end. Margins must be at least 1 inch. Metric measurements are to be used throughout the text and illustrative materials. Generic names for drugs are to be used. Brand names may be included in parentheses.

Title: The title must be short, specific, and clear. The title page should be typed on a separate sheet and include the full name, highest degree, and academic affiliations/institution of all authors, and the addresses, e-mail addresses, telephone numbers, and fax numbers of the first and corresponding authors.

Abstracts: Abstracts, both in English and Thai, which must include a concise statement in not more than 300 words (in English) of what was aimed, what was done, what was found, and what was concluded. For Original Articles, with four labeled paragraphs of Objective, Materials and Methods, Results, and Conclusion. If there is no Thai author in the article, Thai abstract is not required.

Illustrations and Tables: Use only illustrations that clarify and augment the text. Resubmit the illustrations. High resolution (300-600 dpi) are requested in PDF, TIFF, JPEG (use only the maximum quality compression setting), or Microsoft PowerPoint (.pptx) format. All lettering must be legible after reduction to column size. Each table should be typed double-spaced on a separate sheet, and should supplement rather than duplicate the text. They should be numbered consecutively as mentioned in the text and each must have a heading. There is a limit of five figures and five tables per article. Color illustrations will be published at the author’s expense. Supplementary tables or Appendixes will not be published in the article.

References: References should be listed in consecutive order as they are cited in the text, not alphabetically. Once a reference is cited, all subsequent citations should be running in queue to the original number. All references must be cited in the text or tables. Unpublished data and personal communication are not accepted. Use the form of references and the titles of journals abbreviated, according to the style used in Index Medicus (the Vancouver system). If there are more than six authors, the first six authors are listed followed by “et al.”. Where available, URLs for the references have been provided.

Manuscript Acceptance: Manuscripts are received with the understanding that they are not under simultaneous consideration by another publication. Accepted manuscripts become the property of the Journal of the Medical Association of Thailand and must not be published in other journals.

Clinical Trial Registration Policy
The Thai Journal of Trauma encourages potential Thai investigators who will conduct clinical trials and plan to publish their study results in the journal, to register the clinical trials with an official trial registration organization before any participants of the trial are recruited. If you are not aware of any existing trial registration organizations or would like to seek for high quality clinical trial registers, please visit WHO Clinical Trial Search Portal. For more information on the WHO International Clinical Trials Registry Platform. Alternatively, you may register the trial with the Thai Clinical Trials Registration (TCTR).

Research Ethics Review Committee (IRB/EC/IEC) Form
The first or corresponding author must submit one copy of the IRB/EC/IEC permission to research form with the signature for endorsement of its originality and accuracy.

Declaration of Interest
I¹ hereby, on behalf of all authors of the submitted manuscript, certify the above declaration and documents that will be attached or submitted, are all true, original and accurate including authors’ contribution to the submitted manuscript.

¹ The first or corresponding author of the submitted manuscript acts on behalf of all authors.

Plagiarism and Duplicate Publication
Plagiarized or duplicate manuscript/article will be rejected or retracted with penalty.