Submissions

Research Article

1. Submitted papers have to be a research, academic article, review article, or book review which has academic value, encouraging initiation to study and research in the aspect of political sciences, public administration, laws, human rights protection, public oversight, inspection of the exercise of the state power, good governance promotion, justice system, ethics and morals, or other topics related to Ombudsman.
2. Original draft of the article 10-20 pages (A4 size paper) and using MS-Words for Windows. The preferable font for Thai/English article is TH SarabunPSK with size 18 point/Bold for the Title, size 14 for the Author’s name, size 12 for the Affiliation and size 16 for the content. Format of article is required to be adjusted in 1 column, and leave 17 cm. for left and right margins, and 2.50 cm. for header and footer margins.
3. Important components of a research article:

          3.1   Title of the article in Thai and English.

          3.2   Author’s name in Thai and English (indicating professional position, organization, address, office telephone number, mobile number, fax and email address at the end of the article) marked as footnote at the end of the first page with the symbol * and **.

          3.3  Abstract: in Thai and English: brief in a single paragraph with objectives of the research, methods, results, conclusion and recommendations.

          3.4   Introduction: providing academic information and issues, including objectives of the research, statement of the hypotheses, scope of the research, methodology, operational definitions, and expected benefit/outcomes.

          3.5   Materials and Methods: discussing about the sample design, data collection process, statistics used for analysis.

          3.6   Findings and results: reporting and explaining the actual key results, with tables or diagrams as necessary.

          3.7   Conclusion and Discussion: explaining the important issues from the results, comparatively analyzing with other research results, including the application of research results and research recommendations.

          3.8   Footnote: use for adding important further information, referred to the content of the article.

          3.9   In-text citations (Name – Year system), need to be coincide with sources listed in bibliography at the end of the article.

     4.   Name-Year system reference inserted in the content: (Name-Surname of Authors, Year of publication, Referenced pages) or (Name-Surname of Authors as juristic person, Year of publication, Referenced pages)

     5.   Bibliography:

          5.1   For English bibliography use APA–American Psychological Association format.

          5.2  For foreign language bibliography, use the criteria as follows;

                 reference from Books Format Author.(Year).Romanized Title [Translated Title].Place: Publisher.

                 reference from Thesis/Dissertation Format Author.(Year).Romanized Title of dissertation [Translated Title of dissertation].(master’s/phd thesis). Name of Institute, Place.

                 reference from Book Chapters Format Author. (Year). Romanized Title of Chapter [Translated Title of Chapter].In Editor (Ed.), Romanized Title of book [Translated Title of book] (page). Place: Publisher.

                 reference from Journal Articles Format Author.(Year).Romanized Title [Translated Title].Journal.Vol.,No, page.

                 reference from Interview Format Romanized Interviewee Interviewee’s in original language. (Year, Month date). Interview. Position(If there is). Affiliation or Address.

                 reference from Internet/Website Format Romanized Auther Author’s in original language. (Year, Month date).Romanized Title [Translated Title].Retrieved from URL.

       6.   For Romanization in other languages, follow the principle of “Library of congress”. It can be searched from the website https://www.loc.gov/catdir/cpso/roman.html

For Thai Romanization, use the program which can be downloaded from the website: https://164.115.23.167/plangsarn/index.php

Academic Article

1. Submitted papers have to be a research, academic article, review article, or book review which has academic value, encouraging initiation to study and research in the aspect of political sciences, public administration, laws, human rights protection, public oversight, inspection of the exercise of the state power, good governance promotion, justice system, ethics and morals, or other topics related to Ombudsman.
2. Original draft of the article 10-20 pages (A4 size paper) and using MS-Words for Windows. The preferable font for Thai/English article is TH SarabunPSK with size 18 point/Bold for the Title, size 14 for the Author’s name, size 12 for the Affiliation and size 16 for the content. Format of article is required to be adjusted in 1 column, and leave 17 cm. for left and right margins, and 2.50 cm. for header and footer margins.
3. Important components of an academic article

           3.1   Title of the article in Thai and English

           3.2   Author’s name in Thai and English (indicating professional position, organization, address, office telephone number, mobile number, fax and email address at the end of the article) marked as footnote at the end of the first page with the symbol * and **.

          3.3   Abstract: in Thai and English: brief in a single paragraph, providing a concise summary of the key points of the article.

          3.4   Introduction: providing academic information and issues, including objectives of the article.

          3.5   Conclusion

          3.6   Footnote: use for adding important further information, referred to the content of the article.

          3.7   In-text citations (Name – Year system), need to be coincide with sources listed in bibliography at the end of the article.

4. Name-Year system reference inserted in the content: (Name-Surname of Authors, Year of publication, Referenced pages) or (Name-Surname of Authors as juristic person, Year of publication, Referenced pages)
5. Bibliography:

           5.1   For English bibliography use APA–American Psychological Association format.

          5.2  For foreign language bibliography, use the criteria as follows;

                 reference from Books Format Author.(Year).Romanized Title [Translated Title].Place: Publisher.

                 reference from Thesis/Dissertation Format Author.(Year).Romanized Title of dissertation [Translated Title of dissertation].(master’s/phd thesis). Name of Institute, Place.

                 reference from Book Chapters Format Author. (Year). Romanized Title of Chapter [Translated Title of Chapter].In Editor (Ed.), Romanized Title of book [Translated Title of book] (page). Place: Publisher.

                 reference from Journal Articles Format Author.(Year).Romanized Title [Translated Title].Journal.Vol.,No, page.

                 reference from Interview Format Romanized Interviewee Interviewee’s in original language. (Year, Month date). Interview. Position(If there is). Affiliation or Address.

                 reference from Internet/Website Format Romanized Auther Author’s in original language. (Year, Month date).Romanized Title [Translated Title].Retrieved from URL.

      6.   For Romanization in other languages, follow the principle of “Library of congress”. It can be searched from the website https://www.loc.gov/catdir/cpso/roman.html

For Thai Romanization, use the program which can be downloaded from the website: https://164.115.23.167/plangsarn/index.php