Submissions

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Submission Preparation Checklist

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 must adhere to strict ethical standards to ensure that this work is original, accurate and reliable. Any publication malpractices are not acptable; including, plagiarism, publication, and falsification, authorships disputes and has not been previously published, nor is it before another journal for consideration.

    See more details at Publication Ethics
  • The submission file is in Microsoft Word or WordPerfect document file format.
  • Five documents (title and authors page, title and main manuscript, copyright transfer agreement page, letter to editor, institutional ethical committee (IEC) approval letter) are submitted.

    See the recommended format at Template
  • The text is single-spaced; uses a 12-point font; employs italics, rather than underlining (except with URL addresses); and all illustrations, figures, and tables are placed within the text at the appropriate points, rather than at the end.
  • The text adheres to the stylistic and bibliographic requirements outlined in the recommended format.
  • If submitting to a peer-reviewed section of the journal, the instructions in Ensuring a Blind Review have been followed.
  • The author can write in either American English or British English, but not a mix of both.
  • Please follow the suggested reference style closely for all layout, punctuation, spacing, and capitalization.

    See the recommended format at Reference Style
  • Authors should insure that the main maunscript does not contain any information that could reveal the identities to ensure that the review process is conducted in fair and unbiased

Author Guidelines

Submission Process

A correspondence author should:

  1. Sign up using the "Register" menu located at the top of any page on this website
  2. Login after registration. Once logged in, the system will display the submission menu below the publication type on this page.
  3. Add the authors' names and e-mail addresses in the 'Metadata' section of the journal online submission system. This section is where you provide additional information about your manuscript, ensuring that all necessary details are included.
              a.   Cover letter confirming that the article is not currently submitted to any other publications and has not been previously published and also affirms that the article adheres to all ethical guidelines for publication, ensuring that all data and findings are original and properly cited.
              b.   Title and authors (see template)
              c.    Title and main manuscript (see template)
              d.    Copyright transfer agreement (see template)
              e.    Ethical approval document


Publication Types

Meta-Analysis

A systematic review article is a systematic assessment of previously published research on a topic to critically evaluate the data available from existing studies. Systematic review articles can identify potential research areas to explore next, and sometimes, they will draw new conclusions from the existing data. Some systematic reviews include a meta-analysis component involving statistical techniques to synthesize the data from several studies into a single quantitative estimate or summary effect size. Our journal's word count for a systematic review/ meta-analysis article should not exceed 10,000, excluding references. 

Original Article

An original article is written by the researcher (s) who conducted the experiment or observations. The article states a novel research hypothesis and addresses the research question using scientific methods. The scientific methods and results of the study are explicitly reported. The original article should consist of an abstract, introduction, methods, results, discussion, and references. Our journal’s total word count of an original article should not exceed 8,000, exluding references.

Short Communication

Short communication is an academic article similar to original article but more concise. It is written on a topic that requires communication to draw attention to the scientific community. In our journal, the total word count of a short communication should not exceed 2,500, exluding references. There should be at most two pictures or tables and, at most, 15 references.

Case Series

A case series is a descriptive, observational study of a series of cases, typically describing a condition's manifestations, clinical course, and prognosis. The case series is considered when there is an information on more than three patients. Case series is used as a source of hypotheses for investigation by more robust study designs. In our journal, the total word count of the case series should not exceed 2,500, exluding references and at most 15 references.

Case Report

A case report is an interesting case that shows an important variation of a disease or condition or unexpected events that may yield new or useful information for sharing lessons learned. It contains an abstract, introduction, patient history, physical examination, investigation, treatment results, discussion, conclusion, recommendation, and references. In our journal, the total word count of the case series should not exceed 2,000, exluding references and at most 15 references.

Letters to the Editor

A Letter to the Editor is a post-publication commentary on published research. It should ideally be based on knowledge coexisting with the original paper, rather than subsequent scientific developments. Our journal does not consider Letters to the Editor on papers published in other journals. Formal post-publication commentary on published papers can be published alongside a reply from the original authors. Before formal submission, the author (s) should contact the journal with a pre-submission inquiry.  If approved for submission as a Letter to the Editor, the article should then be submitted through the submission system. Letters to the Editor should be around 800 words, excluding references. 

Copyright Notice

When an author submits an article to ASEAN Journal of Rehabilitation Medicine, the Thai Rehabilitation Medicine Association, as a publisher, requires the authors to sign a Copyright Transfer Agreement. The Copyright Transfer Agreement is legally binding and grants the Thai Rehabilitation Medicine Association, as a publisher, either non-exclusive or exclusive rights to distribute the article.

The articles in ASEAN Journal of Rehabilitation Medicine are published under the Creative Commons Attribution Noncommercial No Derivatives (CC-BY-NC-ND) license, which allows reusers to copy and distribute both HTML and PDF format in unadopted form only for noncommercial purposes and only so long as an appropriate citation is given to the creator. 

The authors retain certain rights to reproduce or adapt the article and reproduce adaptations of the article for any purpose other than the commercial exploitation of a work similar to the original.

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