Journal Description
TheSongklanakarin Journal of Science and Technology (Songklanakarin J. Sci.Technol.) aims to provide an interdisciplinary platform for the dissemination ofcurrent knowledge and advances in science and technology. Areas covered include Agricultural andBiological Sciences, Biotechnology and Agro-Industry, Chemistry andPharmaceutical Sciences, Engineering and Industrial Research, Environment andNatural Resources, and Physical Sciences and Mathematics. Songklanakarin Journal of Science andTechnology publishes original research work, either as full length articles oras short communications, technical articles, review articles, invited articlesand special issues.
Guide for Authors
Manuscriptssubmitted for publication should be of high academic merit and are accepted oncondition that they are contributed solely to the Songklanakarin J. Sci.Technol. Manuscripts, parts of whichhave been previously published in conference proceedings, may be accepted ifthey contain additional material not previously published and not currentlyunder consideration for publication elsewhere.
Submissionof a multi-authored manuscript implies the consent of all the participatingauthors. All manuscripts considered for publication will be peer-reviewed byindependent referees.
Submission checklist
Manuscript submission must include:
1. Cover letter to the Editors
2.A manuscript text file containing title page, abstract, keywords, text, acknowledgments, reference list and appendices (if necessary). No figures or tables should be included in this file. The title page of this file should include the title of the article, full names and affiliations of all authors, and the name, e-mail address, telephone and fax numbers and full postal address of the corresponding author.
3.A figures file containing figures which are clear and high-quality with minimal shading. Each figure is to follow its number on the same page. A figure caption list should precede all the figures.
4.A tables file containing all the tables (including title, description, footnotes).
Preparation and Submission of Manuscripts
Contributorssubmitting manuscripts for consideration for publication should follow thefollowing guidelines.
1.All manuscripts should be submitted via the SJST Online Submission System (under development).
2.Submissions should include separate manuscript text, tables and figures files.
2.Manuscript texts must be written using high-quality language. For non-native English language authors, the article should be proof-read by a language specialist. Poor use of English could result in immediate rejection of the paper.
3.Manuscript texts should be no longer than 4500 words and the combined number of figures and tables should not exceed 10. The inclusion of more figures and tables will reduce the word allowance, and vice versa.
4.The cover letter, manuscript text and tables should be created usingMicrosoft Word (PC/Macintosh). However,for the first submission the cover letter, manuscript text, figures and tablesfiles must be converted to PDF format. For the final version, the corrected files should be submitted in theiroriginal format (Microsoft Word for the manuscript text file and tables file,separate graphics files for each of the figures, as indicatedbelow).
5.Manuscript texts should be prepared single column, double-spaced, withsufficient margins (3 cm) for editorial and proof-reader’s marks. 12 pt TimesNew Roman font should be used throughout andall pages numbered consecutively.
6.Abstracts should be no longer than 300 words. About 5 keywords should also beprovided.
7.All measures should be reported in SI units followed if necessary, in thetext, by traditional units in parentheses. The quantity “billion”(109in America, 1012in Europe) is ambiguous and shouldbe avoided.
8.Tables and figures should each be numbered consecutively.
9.Line drawings should be of high resolution and high contrast. Black-and-white or color photographs may be accepted provided they are of high quality. They should also be provided as computer graphic files after the manuscript is accepted for publication and in the final form. Regardless of the application used, when the electronic artwork is finalized, the images should be saved as, or converted to, one of the following formats. (Note the resolution requirements for line drawings, halftones, and line/halftone combinations given below.)
EPS:Vector drawings. Embed the font or save the text as"graphics".
TIFF: Color or greyscale photographs (halftones): use a minimum of 300 dpi.
TIFF:Bitmapped line drawings: use a minimum of 1000 dpi.
TIFF:Combinations bitmapped line/half-tone (colour or greyscale): use a minimum of500 dpi.
10.Acknowledgments should be as brief as possible, in a separate sectionbefore the references, not in the text or as footnotes.
11.Citations of published literature in the text should be given in the formof author and year in parentheses; (Wutthikul et al., 2001),or, if the name forms part of a sentence, it should be followed by the year inparenthesis;Wutthikul et al. (2001). All references mentioned in the Reference list must be cited in the text, and vice versa. TheReferences section at the end of the manuscript should list all and only thereferences cited in the text in alphabetical order of the first author’ssurname. Titles of the journal orconference proceedings are not abbreviated. The following are examples of reference writing.
Referenceto a journal article:
Chen, J. and Li, Y. 2006. Coal fly ash as an amendment to container substrate for Spathiphyllum production. Bioresource Technology. 97, 1920-1926.
Referenceto article or abstract in a conference proceedings:
Klingman,L.A.1992. Induction of floral bud inLansium domesticumby differentrates and times of application of chloroethyl phosphonic acid. Proceedings ofthe 5th Tropical Fruit Crop Symposium, Chiang Mai, Thailand, August 10-12, 1992,231-236.
Referenceto a book:
Perry,R.H. and Chilton, C.H. 1973. Chemical Engineers Handbook, McGraw-Hill, New York,U.S.A., pp. 112-115.
Referenceto an edited book:
Day, P.R. 1965. Particle fractionation and particle size analysis. In Methods of Soil Analysis, C.A. Black, editor. Agronomy no. 9, Part 1. American Society of Agronomy, Madison, Wisconsin, U S.A., pp 545-567.
Referenceto an electronic data source (used only whenunavoidable):
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12.Appendix: All supplementary material as well as items of interest only tospecialists in the field should be placed in an Appendix. Model formulations, descriptions of methods,lists of symbols, acronyms etc. may be included here, ifnecessary.
Proofs
When the manuscript is received by the Publisher, it is considered to be in its final form. One set of page proofs in PDF format will be sent by e-mail to the corresponding author, to be checked for typesetting/editing. No changes in, or additions to, the accepted (and subsequently edited) manuscript will be allowed at this stage. Proof-reading is solely the responsibility of the author.
Corrected proofs should be returned within 5 days of receipt of the proofs by the author. The Publisher reserves the right to proceed with publication if corrections are not communicated. Should there be no corrections, confirmation of this should be made to the Publisher.
The Journal will do everything possible to get articles corrected and published as quickly and accurately as possible. In order to do this the cooperation of authors is needed. Following receipt of the (PDF) proofs for correction, authors should ensure that all corrections are sent back to the Journal in one communication. Subsequent corrections will not be possible, so the first return of corrections must be complete. Note that this does not mean a shorter time for making corrections, just that only one set of corrections will be accepted.
Further Information
1.Permission must be obtained for use of copyrighted material from other sources (including the Web).
2.All authors must sign the copyright transfer agreement once the manuscript is in the final form.
3.Color figures are displayed in colour in the electronic version of the Journal (available free-of-charge on the Web). The hard-copy version produces only black and white.
4.Examples of recently published articles can be found at the journal web page
( These may be used as a guideline for article layout.
Songklanakarin Journal of Science and Technology has no page charges.
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All correspondence should be directed to:
The Editor, Songklanakarin Journal of Science and Technology
Research and Development Office, Prince of SongklaUniversity,
Hat Yai, Songkhla, Thailand
Tel: +66-74-286-959 Fax: +66-74-212-839 E-mail:
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