This publication's ethics guide scholarly communication. It is an element in the improvement of a coherent, quality, transparent, and consistent manner with international publishing standards. The Thai Food and Drug Journal has defined roles and responsibilities for four groups of people: author, peer reviewer, journal editor, and publisher. In order for those involved to study and strictly comply with the ethical requirements for publishing, as follows:

 

Duties of Authors

1. Authors must write articles according to the format specified by the journal and write Vancouver-style reference documents.

2. The authors must not submit articles that have been previously published or are in the process of being submitted for publication in other journals, and the article will not be submitted to other journals while it is being considered for publication.

3. The authors and co-authors listed in the article must have participated in the work of writing it.

4. The authors must submit articles that do not plagiarise the work of others.

5. The authors must revise according to the suggestions and recommendations of the article evaluators and editor.

 

Duties of Reviewers

1. Peer reviewers should have expertise or knowledge in that field and must consider the article impartially.

2. The peer reviewers have to assist the editor and the author in improving the paper by communicating feedback, corrections, advice, and fashion and reliability to improve and correct the article.

3. The peer reviewers should evaluate articles within a specified period of time, or if the article cannot be evaluated, they will notify the editor.

4. The peer reviewers will not know the name of the author (double blind), who has no conflict of interest with the author. Do not disclose information; keep it secret.

 

 Duties of Editor:

Every article goes through a rigors quality review process by peer reviewers and the editorial team, as follows:

1. An editor must clearly specify the format for publication.

2. The editor does not accept previously published articles or those that are in the process of being submitted for publication in other journals.

3. The editor must review and provide guidance to authors before submitting articles to evaluators and before publishing the article.

4. The editor must select article raters with expertise in their respective fields.

5. The editor must not have a conflict of interest with the authors, article evaluator, or editorial team. Also, do not publish too many of your own articles.

6. The editor must not reveal author information and peer reviewer information, which must be kept secret;

7. The editor must decide in cases where the article evaluators have a disagreement and articles have not been substantially revised according to the recommendations of the article reviewers, etc.

8. The editor must check for plagiarism based on the evaluation results of the ThaiJo system (Copy Catch). It should not exceed 20%, and if plagiarism by others is detected above the threshold, inform the author of the review of the article before entering it into the article evaluation process.