The Thai Journal of Veterinary Medicine
Instruction to Authors
Instructions to Authors
The Thai Journal of Veterinary Medicine (TJVM) publishes articles reporting interdisciplinary investigations concerning veterinary and animal sciences, at all levels of resolution, from basic to clinical, molecular to behavioral, and opinions that are of general interest to the broad community of veterinarians and biological scientists. Clinical investigations, protocols, and reviews will also be considered for publication if they provide significant insight into the structure or function, the pathophysiology of a disease, or its treatment.
Sections
In the Journal's Table of Contents, published articles will be shown under one of the appropriate section titles listed below:
- Editorials: A limited amount of space will be available for comments about important scientific points or subjects of topical interest, and will be by invitation only.
- Reviews: The article can be submitted either by invitation or submission. The latter will be reviewed by experts in the same manner as other submitted manuscripts.
- Original Articles: The manuscript should present novel research findings and provide strong evidence for the conclusions. The manuscripts suitable for publication in TJVM should be of extreme importance to scientists in the field as well as interesting to researchers in other disciplines.
- Short Communications: These are short manuscripts that describe outstanding new discoveries. The decision will be based on whether the paper reports particularly important findings that have a high impact in the field of work.
- Case Reports: These are short reports of original clinical or pathological findings whose importance means that they will be of interest to veterinarians.
Submission Policy
Submission of a paper to TJVM is understood to imply that it deals with original material not previously published and that it is not being considered for publication elsewhere. Please write your text in good English (American or British usage is accepted, but not a mixture of these). The manuscript must be approved by a native English speaker before submission. The layout and style should adhere strictly to the instructions given under "Organization of the Article". No revisions or updates will be incorporated after the article has been accepted and sent to the Publisher (unless approved by the Editorial Board). The Editorial Board reserves the right to reject any manuscript deemed unsuitable for publication in TJVM.
Upon acceptance, a letter will be sent to the corresponding author confirming receipt of the manuscript. Accepted manuscripts become the property of TJVM. The Journal reserves the copyright, and no published material may be reproduced or published elsewhere without written consent from the Journal. If excerpts from other copyrighted works are included, the author(s) must obtain written permission from the copyright owners and credit the source(s) in the manuscript. The Journal will not be responsible for the loss of manuscripts at any time. All statements in published manuscripts are the responsibility of the authors, who will assist the editors by reviewing proofs before publication.
Submission Procedure
Authors are requested to submit their manuscripts in English in a concise and understandable style. Technical jargon or "laboratory slang" should not be used. Please note that the electronic files supplied will always be used to produce the illustrations, including those for the print version of the article; it is the authors' responsibility to ensure that the manuscript is written in a style that is grammatically correct and free of spelling or other typographical errors and that these files are of suitable quality. All manuscripts must be typewritten using Times New Roman font at 12 point, with double-spacing throughout and with margins at least 2.5 cm wide. Pages should be numbered in succession, the title page being number 1 and all lines should be numbered consecutively in the left margin. Text files should be supplied in Microsoft Word formats.
Each manuscript should be accompanied by a signed cover letter in which the corresponding author states: "The work described has not been submitted elsewhere for publication, in whole or in part." All submissions to TJVM must contain experiments that conform to the ethical standards issued by the National Research Council. If the studies deal with animal experiments, the authors certify in the Materials and Methods section that the procedures have been approved by the authors' institution's Ethics Committee, and care was taken to minimize the number of animals used.
Organization of the Article
The manuscript should have a uniform style and be submitted exactly as the author wishes it to appear in print. It should consist of subdivisions in the following sequence:
- 1) Title page
- 2) Abstract: The manuscript should contain an abstract of around 250 words. The abstract must be written in complete sentences and succinctly state the objectives, experimental design, principal observations, and conclusions; it should be intelligible without reference to the rest of the paper.
- 3) Text
- 4) Acknowledgments
- 5) Tables
- 6) Figures legends
- 7) Figures
Text Structure
Original Articles: The text should be presented in the following order:
- i.) Introduction: This should provide the scientific rationale for the research. No results should be presented.
- ii.) Materials and Methods: Procedures used in the research should be described in sufficient detail to permit replication by others. Previously published procedures should be referenced and briefly summarized. The source of all materials must be provided.
- iii.) Results: This section presents findings without discussing their significance. Subsections should be used to organize the presentation.
- iv.) Discussion: This section presents the authors' interpretations of their findings and assesses their significance in relation to previous work. Repetition of material presented in the Results section should be avoided.
Short Communication and Case Reports:
These should not exceed 4 pages (approximately 2,000 words in total, including spaces). Follow the instructions for Original Articles, except that Results and Discussion are combined.
Reviews:
Reviews should have an introductory section, followed by several information presentation sections, and end with a conclusion section. Section headings should be used to organize the presentation of information.
Acknowledgements
It is the corresponding author's responsibility to ensure that individuals who are acknowledged for assistance or for providing comments on the manuscript are agreeable to be acknowledged in this way.
Tables or Figures
Tables and figures should be included on separate pages placed at the end of the manuscript. Their desired approximate locations should be indicated in the text. Each figure must be accompanied by an explanatory legend in a separate section entitled Figure Legends. Figures should be referred to in the text as Fig. 1, Figs. 1, 3-4, etc., and tables as Table 1, Tables 1, 3-4, etc. Probability format style should be used as "P < 0.05".
Publication Fee
After the paper is accepted, the authors will be required to pay a publication fee of 10,000 THB or 300 USD.
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