Submission Guidelines

Submission checklist

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 or rejected if the items below are not present.

  1. Manuscript
  2. Manuscript for Reviewer
  3. Certification of Language Proofread
  4. Checklist before submit the article to Siriraj Medical Journal
  5. Letter of Certification before Publishing Article(s) in Siriraj Medical Journal (SMJ)
  6. A cover letter It is recommended to state that written permission to publish case details or use photographs of unavoidably identifiable persons has been obtained.
  7. Plagiarism report Manuscripts must be checked for potential plagiarism with %Turnitin <20%.

 

Formatting manuscript

The manuscript should be presented in the following order: 

Title page
The title page should contain the following:

  • Title of the paper.
  • A short running head (optional) - no more than 50 characters, including spaces
  • Type of manuscript (e.g. Original Article, Review Article).
  • Full names of all authors with the highest academic degree.
  • Addresses of the institutions at which the work was carried out.
  • E-mail address and telephone numbers, of the author to whom correspondence about the manuscript, proofs, and requests for offprint should be sent.

*We highly encourage you to read our Information For Authors and Publication Ethics for authorship, journal's policies, process, ethics and guidelines.*

Abstract
An abstract, no longer than 250 words or less.

For research manuscript, the abstract should state the Objective, Materials and Methods, Results, and Conclusion, each with a brief adequate presentation.

For review manuscript, the abstract should be written in 1 paragraph.

 

Keywords
Keywords are the words that describe your topic of research. These can be individual words or a phrase. These keywords can be chosen from the sentence you create to define your research topic. 

 

Main text

  • Original Article 
    Original articles should be written and structured as follows:
    • Introduction/Objectives
    • Materials and Methods
    • Statistics or analysis or statistical analyses
    • Results
    • Discussion
    • Conclusion
    • Declaration and Acknowledgement
      • IRB Aprroval / COI Disclosure
      • Grants and Funding Information
      • Conflict of Interest
      • Author Contributions
      • Use of Artificial Intelligence
    • The manuscript length, excluding references, should not exceed 3,500 words. Tables and figures/ illustrations should not exceed 6 in total.
  • Review Article
    Review articles should be written and structured as follows:
    • Introduction
    • Conclusion
    • Declaration and Acknowledgement
      • Grants and Funding Information
      • Conflict of Interest
      • Author Contributions
      • Use of Artificial Intelligence
    • The manuscript length, excluding references, should not exceed 4,500 words. Tables and illustrations should not exceed 8 in total.
  • Letter to the Editor
    The manuscript length, excluding references, should not exceed 2,500 words.

 

Tables
Please submit tables as editable text and not as images. Tables can be placed either next to the relevant text in the article, or on separate page(s) at the end. Number tables consecutively in accordance with their appearance in the text and place any table notes below the table body. Be sparing in the use of tables and ensure that the data presented in them do not duplicate results described elsewhere in the article.

 

Artwork
Size the illustrations close to the desired dimensions of the published version. Please make sure that artwork files are in an acceptable format (TIFF (or JPEG), EPS (or PDF), or MS Office files). Ensure that each illustration has a caption. Supply captions separately, not attached to the figure. 

 

References
The Vancouver system of referencing should be used. References should be cited numerically in the order they appear in the text. Identify references in text, tables, and legends by Arabic numerals in superscripts. In the reference list, the references should be numbered and listed in order of appearance in the text.

Cite the names of all authors when there are six or fewer; when there are seven or more, list the first six followed by “et al”. 

  • Journal article
    Sibai BM. Magnesium sulfate is the ideal anticonvulsant in preeclampsia-eclampsia. Am J Obstet Gynecol. 1990;162:1141-5.
  • Books
    Remington JS, Swartz MN. Current Topics in Infectious Diseases, Vol 21. Boston: Blackwell Science Publication, 2001.
  • Chapter in a Book
    Cunningham FG, Hauth JC, Leveno KJ, Gilstrap L III, Bloom SL, Wenstrom KD. Hypertensive disorders in pregnancy. In: Cunningham FG, Hauth JC, Leveno KJ, Gilstrap L III, Brom SL, Wenstrom KD, eds. Williams Obstetrics, 22nd ed. New York: McGraw-Hill, 2005.p.761-808.