Guidelines for sending articles to be published in the Journal of Mekong Societies

1. The articles should focus on humanities and social sciences in the Mekong region.
2. The article can be written in Thai or in English. If written in English, it should be proof-read by a native speaker before being submitted.
3. The article should be clearly titled, and enclosed with information on the authorûs name and surname, title educational background, workplace, position and contact address in Thai and English.
4. The article should be no more than 15 pages long, doubled-spaced, in 12-point font, Times New Roman, and sent as an email attachment to This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it
5. The article must not have been previously published.
6. If the article is translated from a foreign language, it should be presented with the authorûs copyright.
7. Articles must have an abstract in Thai and English of approximately one A4 page in length.
8. All tables and figures should be prepared on separate sheets and attached at the end of the paper. Authors should indicate clearly in the text where tables and figures are to be inserted.
9. All papers are peer-reviewed by at least two experts in the field relevant to the subject of submitted papers.
10. Hard copies and electronic copies of rejected articles will not be returned to the author.

Citation and Reference : (APA (American Psychological Association) form)
For citations, the writer should indicate the name of the author, year, title and page number in parentheses following the reference in the text. If the name of the author is part of the text, the writer needs only parenthesize the year of publication and page following the authorûs name.

Examples of the citation in the text are: Vinten (1990 : 125-36) has provided a working definition of social audit: A review to ensure that an
organization gives due consideration to its wider and social responsibilities to those both directly and indirectly affected by its decisions, and that a balance is achieved in its corporate planning between these aspects and the more traditional business-related objectives.

The next definition gives prominence to the measurement of social impact: The social audit is an attempt by an individual corporation to measure its performance in an area where it is making a social impact...an attempt to identify, measure, evaluate, report and monitor the effects a corporation is having on society that are not covered in the traditional financial reports[7, p.]. (Buchholz, 1982: 499) .Consider the difficulties with measurement in the audit. While a single measuring rod would be ideal (given our obsession for the big number like the gross domestic product figure or the employment rate). This is not realistic and multiple measures must be used. Should the measurement be input or output oriented (Buchholz, 1982: 500)? Do we utilize, for example, pollution control expenditures (inputs) or do we estimate reduction in pollution (output)? The Secretary of Commerce once proposed the creation of a corporate social index to estimate the social performance of firms over time, but little came of this [8, p. 131]. (Buchholz, 1989 : 131)

 

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