Information For Authors

Information For Author :

   The Rajabhat Maha Sarakham University Journal is a journal which publishes research articles, review articles, book review, and communication letter, covering the various fields of humanities and social sciences. The journal appears three times a year. The time to go to press is January to April, May to August, and September to December. Authors can send the text of articles whether they are a member of Rajabhat Maha Sarakham University staff or not. The articles must be previously unpublished and will be peer reviewed by at least 3 external reviewers and Consideration of articles by experts (Peer Review) The name of the author is unknown. and unknown author (Peer Review) (Double-Blind Peer Review) for their relevance and approved by the editorial board. The published article must have a consensus of peer reviewers that it is appropriate to be published in the journal. The articles might be changed for editorial corrections. For articles that have been rejected to publication or cancel to be published, the authors are not able to request refunds for article publishing fees. Authors can get more information on our
website: https://so05.tci-thaijo.org/index.php/rmuj

Preparation of the manuscript

Please note the following instructions:

     1. The manuscript
The manuscript can be in Thai or English. Use of Thai should be based on the vocabulary principles and terminology in the Royal Academic Dictionary. Avoid mixing English and Thai. If it cannot be avoided, it should be written in Thai followed by English in brackets. With the first word starting with capital letters, but all remain-ing letters and words must be typed in lowercase, except the unique names every word begins with capital letter. If it is appearing in many places in the article of the same vocabulary in Thai followed by English, use Thai vocab-ulary followed by English only for the first time, for the next time, use only Thai vocabulary. And for English articles must have English language experts verify the accuracy of language usage as well. 

     2. Page setup

Printing: Manuscripts must be prepared using Microsoft Word on Letter-size paper (8.5 x 11 inches). The page layout should be set with a top margin of 1.3 inches (3.3 cm), and left, right, and bottom margins of 1 inch (2.5 cm). The text should be formatted in a single column, with page numbers provided on every page.

     3. Font
In Thai and English font use DilleniaUPC font, and both Thai and English font use the same size, as follows: 1) title 18 pt bold; 2) author’s name 16 pt. nor-mal; 3) author’s subject, department, faculty, institute 12 pt. normal, 4) main topic 16 pt. bold, 5) subordinate 14 pt. Bold, and 6) all the contents 14 pt. normal.
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     4. Article length
Articles must not exceed of 15 pages inclusive of charts, graphs and references.

     5. Manuscript submission
The authors can submit manuscripts on the website: https://so05.tci-thaijo.org/index.php/rmuj/index

Types of Articles
     1. Research articles
The article that present research results, which may be some parts of research results or all research results that the author has conducted by himself, which has the components follow:
          1.1 Preliminaries
                1.1.1 Title
                1.1.2 Authors and Co-authors
                1.1.3 Abstract
                1.1.4 Keywords
          1.2 Section of research Article content
                1.2.1 Introduction
                1.2.2 Objectives
                1.2.3 Hypothesis (If any)
                1.2.4 Conceptual Framework
                1.2.5 Research method
                 1.2.6 Results
                1.2.7 Conclusion and Discussion
                1.2.8 Suggestions
          1.3 Supplementary
                1.3.1 Acknowledgements
                1.3.2 Reference. Specify the documents used for study and research in writing the article References use in the APA (American Psychological Association).

     2. Academic or Review articles.
          2.1 Preliminaries
                2.1.1 The title
                2.1.2 Authors and Co-authors
                2.1.3 Summary
                2.1.4 Keywords
          2.2 Section of Article content. 
                2.2.1 Introduction
                2.2.2 Content
                2.2.3 Conclusion
          2.3 Supplementary
                2.3.1 Acknowledgments (if any)
                2.3.2 Reference. Identify the document used for study. Use content inserting references in form of APA.

Guidelines for preparing manuscripts, principles of document references in APA style  :  Download Handbook

Examples for Reference APA Style

Procedure for Online Submissions Please refer to thaijo handbook

Publication Fees
1. Personnel and students of Rajabhat Maha Sarakham University
  1.1 Thai-language articles 3,800 baht per article.
  1.2 English-language articles 4,300 baht per article
2. Guest
   2.1 Thai-language articles 4,800 baht per article
  2.2 English-language articles 5,300 baht per article

Payment of publishing fees can be made at
Bank: Krung Thai Bank
Branch: Maha Sarakham University
Account name: Deposits and insurance money
Intersection Account number: 476-0-42091-6

* A publication fee is charged upon initial editorial review by the editor.

Announcement from Mahasarakham Rajabhat University on Publication Fees and Journal Expenses.