Maejo International Journal of Science and Technology (ISSN 1905-7873 © 2007), the international journal for the rapid publication of all preliminary communication in Science and Technology is the first peer-reviewed scientific journal of Maejo University (http://www.mju.ac.th). Full papers will be available at http://www.mijst.mju.ac.th and abstracts will be indexed and cited by other international data base soon.

Maejo Int. J. Sci. Technol. is an Open Access, free for readers.

Instructions for Authors

Manuscripts should be submitted by e-mail to duang@mju.ac.th

Check in your cover letter whether you supplied at least 3 referees. Please ensure that English grammar is properly edited before submission.

Manuscript Preparation

Manuscripts should be prepared in English using a word processor. MS Word for Macintosh or Windows, and .doc or .rtf files are preferred. Manuscripts may be prepared with other software, provided that the full document (with figures, schemes and tables inserted into the text) is exported to a MS Word format for submission. Times or Times New Roman font is preferred. The font size should be 12 pt . and the line spacing "at least" 17 pt . The printing area is 17.5cm x 24.7cm (6.9" x 9.73"). For A4 paper,  margins must be 1.5 cm on top, 3.5cm at the bottom and 1.75 cm on both left and right sides of the paper. For US letter-sized paper, margins must be 1.5 cm (0.59") on top, 1.74 cm (0.68") at the bottom and 2.05 cm (0.8") on both left and right sides. Although our final output is in .pdf format, authors are asked NOT to send manuscripts in this format as editing them is much more complicated.

A template file may be downloaded from the Maejo Int. J. Sci. Technol. homepage. (DOWNLOAD HERE)

Authors' full mailing addresses, homepage addresses, phone and fax numbers, e-mail addresses and homepages can be included in the title page and these will be published in the manuscripts and the Table of Contents. The corresponding author should be clearly identified. It is the corresponding author's responsibility to ensure that all co-authors are aware of and approve of the contents of a submitted manuscript.

A brief (200 word maximum) Abstract should be provided. The use in the Abstract of numbers  to identify compounds should be avoided, unless these compounds are also identified by names.

A list of three to five keywords must be given, and placed after the Abstract. Keywords may be single words or very short phrases.

Although variations in accord with a manuscript's contents are permissible, in general all papers should have the following sections: Introduction, Materials and Methods, Results and Discussion, Conclusions, Acknowledgments (if applicable), and References.

Authors are encouraged to prepare figures and schemes in colour. Full colour graphics will be published free of charge.  

Tables should be inserted into the main text, and numbers and titles supplied for all tables. All table columns should have an explanatory heading. To facilitate layout of large tables, smaller fonts may be used, but in no case should these be less than 10 pt . in size. Authors should use the Table option of MS Word to create tables, rather than tabs, as tab-delimited columns are often difficult to format in .pdf for final output.

Figures and schemes should also be placed in numerical order in the appropriate place within the main text. Numbers, titles and legends should be provided for all schemes and figures. These should be prepared as a separate paragraph of the main text and placed in the main text before the figure or scheme. Chemical structures and reaction schemes should be drawn using an appropriate software package designed for this purpose. As a guideline, these should be drawn to a scale such that all the details and text are clearly legible when placed in the manuscript (i.e. text should be no smaller than 8- 9 pt .).

References. For bibliographic citations the reference numbers should be placed in square brackets, i.e., [ ], and placed before the punctuation, for example [4] or [1-3], and all the references should be listed separately and as the last section at the end of the manuscript.

Format for References

Journals :

1.   D. Buddhasukh, J. R. Cannon, B. W. Metcalf, and A. J. Power, " Synthesis of   5-n-alkylresorcinol dimethyl ethers and related compounds via substituted thiophens", Aust. J. Chem. , 1971 , 24 , 2655-64.

Texts :

2.   A. I. Vogel, "A Textbook of Practical Organic Chemistry", 3rd Edn., Longmans, London , 1956 .

Chapter in an Edited Text :

3.   P. H Gore, in "Friedel-Crafts and Related Reactions" (Ed. G. A. Olah), Vol. 3, Interscience, London , 1964 , Ch. 31.

Thesis / Dissertation :

4.  W. phutdhawong, “Isolation of glycosides by electrolytic decolourisation and synthesis of pentinomycin”, PhD. Thesis , 2002 , Chiang Mai University , Thailand .

Patents :

5.   K. Miwa, S. Maeda , and Y. Murata, " Purification of Stevioside by Electrolysis", Jpn. Kokai Tokkyo Koho 79 89,066 (1979).

Referees

Authors should suggest at least 3 referees with appropriate technical expertise, although the editor may not necessarily approach them. Their addresses, homepage addresses, phone and fax numbers and e-mail addresses should be provided as fully as possible.

English editing

This journal is published in English, so it is essential that for proper refereeing and quick publication all manuscripts be submitted in grammatically correct English and style. Authors must therefore ensure that their manuscripts are accordingly checked before submitting them A manuscript may be rejected on the ground of language alone.