Submissions

Author Guidelines

Authors’ Guide

For Paper Submission and Manuscript Preparation

General Instructions

The Salasarn Journal Humanities and Social Sciences accept research papers, academic articles, and review articles written in English and Thai, not a mixture. Poorly written English may result in rejection or return of the submission for language editing. 

The articles must fall within the aim and scope of the Journal, that is, business management & economics as a priority and their related fields in social sciences.

Research or academic papers must be 5500 - 6500 words in length inclusive of references, tables, graphs, charts, and figures.

For research papers

the author is advised to include all elements of the structure below:

-   Title of the paper must be clear, concise, and informative, all in uppercase, not exceeding 15 words or within three typeset lines.

-    Abstract (200 words)

Abstracts must include sufficient information for readers to judge the nature and significance of the topic, the adequacy of the investigative strategy, the research results and conclusions. The abstract should summarize the major results of the work and not merely list topics to be discussed. It is an outline or brief summary of your paper in a well-developed paragraph, should be exact in wording, and understandable to a wide audience.

-   Keywords 

Keywords 3-5 immediately after the abstract, keywords are for indexing purposes, and ideally should be different from the title.

-   Introduction 

This section provides a necessary background of the paper and a brief review of the existing knowledge, and importance of the problem. 

-   Literature Review 

Discussion of the research work of others in the field or topic area and how your work will enhance and contribute to the field.  Citation of work by others should follow APA (7h edition) style e.g. Ojie (2007) asserts that…; Yan (2005, 170) also speaks highly of…

-   Methodology 

This section indicates clear research objectives, conceptual framework(s) (if any), research question(s), hypotheses, population and sample, research instruments, and the data collection process. This section provides clear steps used in conducting your research. It means all procedures need to be described in sufficient detail to allow someone to replicate it.

-   Results and Discussion 

This section covers the analysis of the data. It should include statistics in tables, charts, graphs, or pictures analyzed against hypotheses or in answering the research question(s) in quantitative research, or descriptive analyses of categories in qualitative research. Results are purely descriptive. The discussion describes and interprets the findings, placing them in a bigger context, relating them to other work(s) and issues outlined in the Introduction.

-   Conclusion and Recommendations 

This section summarizes your study’s key findings and implications. It should not belong and be repetitive but capture the essence of the study discussed in all previous sections. It should briefly cover the limitations of your research and suggested future directions for further research.

For academic articles

there are no set rules. We recommend the structure below:

• Introduction
• Discussion
• Subheading
• Conclusion

The author is advised to follow a logical, understandable point of argument. Break your main argument into sub-headings and present them in an outline at the end of the Introduction.

-    References List all the sources you have cited in the body of your research. It states the author/s of the source, the material's year of publication, the name or title of the source material, as well as its electronic retrieval information, including the date it was accessed if these were gathered from the Internet.

For book or article reviews

The author should adhere to a 3-section structure as follows:

-   Bibliographic entry Please follow a 3-headings format. For example.

BOOK REVIEW

Building Adolescent Literacy in Today’s English Classroom

Author: Randy Bomer

Heinemann, Portsmouth, NH: 2011

Paperback, 334 pages; ISBN – 13: 978-0-325-01394-7, ISBN-10: 0-325-01394-2

-   Summary of the content Give a clear synopsis of the main points of the book. This section may include the credibility/authority of the author in the field (if

applicable). The main purpose of the book is, who is the target audience, and how the author convinces the reader to agree with his main points.

-    Critical evaluation This is the most important part of a book/article review. Your role is to critique and make an argument about the merit of the book—to show the reader your view on how successful the author accomplished what he or she was intending to accomplish in writing this book or article. 

-    The length of a book review is not to exceed 1200 words