Author Guidelines

Any fees or charges are not required for manuscript processing and/or publishing materials in the Thailand Statistician.

Submitted manuscripts are reviewed by outside experts or editorial board members of Thailand Statistician. This journal uses double-blind review, which means that both the reviewer and author identities are concealed from the reviewers, and vice versa, throughout the review process. 

Steps in the process are as follows:

Preparation of Manuscripts

Manuscript Format

The following components are required for a complete manuscript: title page, abstract, text, references, figures, legends, and tables. Include page numbers on the document, beginning with the title page as No.1. Please use the MS Word Version 2013 and editing equations by MathType Version 6.9 or above for submission is preferred. Page layout setup is standard Times New Roman 10-point font size of B5 (JIS) paper with margins must be 1 inch on top and inside, 0.6 inches on bottom and outside and justified paragraph alignment and the line spacing multiple 1.15. A  sample copy can be downloaded from web site as https://www.tci-thaijo.org/index.php/thaistat/index. The LaTex template can be downloded here.

Title page

The following items are required on the title page:

  • Manuscript title

  • Each author’s name, academic degrees, and affiliation

  • Complete mailing address, telephone, facsimile, and E-mail for correspondence and
    reprints

  • Sources of support that require acknowledgment and/or financial disclosure statements

  • 3-5 keywords

Abstract: An unstructured summary of not more than 300 words should be provided that
can be understood without reference to the text.

Text: Headings should be appropriate to the nature of the article. The text should be written as objectively as possible. Numerals should be spelt out in full from one to nine (except when referring to a measurement), and when beginning a sentence.

1. Research and experimental papers should follow the usual conventions, as follows:

Introduction Setting forth clearly the aim of the study or the main hypothesis, with reference to previous studies.

Materials or Study Population and Methods

Results Presented in logical sequence in the text, with tables and illustrations. All the results of the tables should not be repeated in the text; the most important results should be emphasized.

Discussion Related to the aims and results of the study.

Conclusions Emphasized the highlights and importance of the work.

2. Other papers can be subdivided as the author desires; the use of headings enhances
readability.

References

Format Submit references are on the following instructions.

- List references in a separate reference section immediately following the text.

- Verify all references prior to submission.

- The list of references should be arranged in alphabetical order and cited within the text by the author and year.

- Do not cite personal communication, unpublished observations, and submitted manuscripts. Reference to a paper accepted but not yet published can be listed as “in press.”.

- Provide names of all authors in a reference when there are six or fewer; if there are seven or more authors, list only the first three, followed by “et al.”.

Reference Style is Vancouver. The following are requirements and examples for common reference types:

  • Journal references include the specified information listed in the following order— authors, article title and subtitle, journal abbreviation, year, volume No.in Arabic numerals, and inclusive pages. Example: Nguyen HT. Statistics of fuzzy data: a research direction for applied statistics. Thail. Stat. 2015; 13(1):1-31.

  • Book references include the following: authors, title, edition (if other than the first), volume (if more than one), city, publisher, and year. Example: Koenker R. Quantile regression. New York: Cambridge University Press; 2005.

  • Book chapters include the following: authors, title of paper, editors, title of book chapters, city, publisher, year and inclusive pages. Example: Meltzer PS, Kallioniemi A, Trent JM. Chromosome alterations in human solid tumors. In: Vogelstein B, Kinzler KW, editors. The genetic basis of human cancer. New York: McGraw-Hill; 2002. p. 93-113.

  • Conference papers in print proceedings include the following: authors, title of paper, editors, title of published proceedings, proceedings of the title of conference, year month date, location, place of publication, publisher; year, and inclusive pages. Example: Khalifa ME, Elmessiry HM, ElBahnasy KM, Ramadan HMM. Medical image registration using mutual information similarity measure. In: Lim CT, Goh JCH, editors. ICBME2008: Proceedings of the 13th International Conference on Biomedical Engineering; 2008 Dec 3-6; Singapore. Dordrecht: Springer; 2009. pp.151-155.

  • Electronic sources References to online sources should include the type of medium (such as “serial online” or “monograph online”), the date of that specific reference (if applicable), the uniform resource locator (URL), and the date that the source was accessed. For web pages, please include the name of the page referenced. A source accessed online should always be referenced accordingly, even if it is also published in printed form. Example: Sillick TJ, Schutte NS. Emotional intelligence and self-esteem mediate between perceived early parental love and adult happiness. E-Jnl Appl Psych [serial on the Internet]. 2006 [cited 2010 Aug 6]; 2(2):38-48. Available from: https://ojs.lib.swin.edu.au/index.php/ejap/article/view/71/100.

  • Theses include the following: author, title, thesis type, location of university: university; year. Example: Borkowski MM. Infant sleep and feeding: a telephone survey of Hispanic Americans. PhD [dissertation]. Mount Pleasant (MI): Central Micihigan University; 2002.

Figures Numbering figures as Figure 1, Figure 2, etc. and refer to all of them in the text. For the formats of the figures please take the following into account:

  • Line art should be have a minimum resolution of 600 dpi, save as EPS or TIFF
  • Grayscales should have a minimum resolution of 300 dpi (no lettering), or 500-600 dpi (when there is lettering); save as TIFF
  • Do not save figures as JPEG, this format may lose information in the process

Coverage by Abstracting Service: This journal is covered by Zentralblatt für Mathematik, Thai Journal Citation Index (TCI), ASEAN Citation Index (ACI), Scopus and Emerging Sources Citation Index (ESCI). Abstracts and papers in each issue are available at the journal website; www.tci-thaijo.org/index.php/thaistat.