Submissions

As part of the submission process, authors are required to check off their submission's compliance with all of the following items, and submissions may be returned to authors that do not adhere to these guidelines.

• The manuscript is original, has not been previously published, and is not under consideration by another journal. Any prior dissemination as a preprint, conference abstract, thesis, or report has been disclosed to the editor.
• All authors have approved the submitted manuscript and the order of authors, and agree to its submission to The Bangkok Medical Journal.
• The manuscript is written in English and has been prepared in accordance with the journal’s Author Guidelines, including the required article structure and reference style.
• A cover letter, the manuscript, and all required tables, figures, supplementary files, and applicable reporting checklists have been prepared for submission.
• Ethics approval or exemption, informed consent, and permission to reproduce third-party material have been obtained where applicable and are documented in the submission.
• All sources of funding and conflicts of interest have been disclosed in the manuscript. Any use of AI-assisted tools has been disclosed in the cover letter and the appropriate manuscript section, in accordance with the Author Guidelines.
• A separate Title Page containing author names, affiliations, and corresponding author contact details has been prepared. The manuscript file intended for double-blind peer review does not contain author names or other identifying information, including in the file name, document properties, and comments.