Submissions

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 that do not adhere to these guidelines.

• The submission has not been previously published, nor is it before another journal for consideration (or an explanation has been provided in Comments to the Editor).
• The author must have honesty, morality, ethics and technical independence without bias in all research steps (as per the Researcher's Professional Ethics and Practical Guidelines of the National Research Council of Thailand, B.E. 2554 (2011)].
• The author must report technical/research results, based on the study's facts and correct data without any false and distorted data, and prepare an article or manuscript according to the "Author's Instructions".
• The author must make reference to other people's findings that appear in his/her own article, and must have technical honesty without any plagiarism in whole or in part.
• The author should try to avoid a conflict of interest in the process of research and/or the publication of research findings. This kind of relationship might be positive, negative, personal, business or financial in nature, and might cause bias in the research undertaking. If the author anticipates a conflict of interest in his/her research process, he/she needs to disclose it to the editor in advance; and the funding source has to be mentioned in the acknowledgements section.
• The author must be responsible for his/her own findings and certify that the work has neither been published, nor in the process of being reviewed for publication, in another journal.
• The author must state the names of all other co-authors or co-researchers as well as each one's clear role and proportion of contribution, in case he/she is not the sole author.
• In case the author commits wrongdoing concerning the author's responsibilities, particularly clauses 2-5, the editorial board shall disqualify his/her publication in the Thailand Journal of Traditional Chinese Medicine for at least three years, and shall also notify the author's organization as the case may be.