Submissions

Author Guidelines

Preparing Manuscript
Manuscripts submitted for consideration to be published by Nitiparitat Journal must comply with the following requirements:
1. Required information:
- Title of the manuscript, both in Thai and in English, which is concise, comprehensive and clearly represents the content of the manuscript.
- Author’s name, both in Thai and in English.
- Author’s academic title (if applicable), both in Thai and in English.
- Author’s email, which can be either a personal account or an account belonging to author’s affiliation or employer.
- Name and address of author’s affiliation or employer, both in Thai and in English.
- Abstracts, both in Thai and in English, which do not exceed 300 words each.
- Minimum of 3 keywords, both in Thai and in English.
2. Required Format:
- Use Microsoft Word Processing Program and save in .doc or .docx format.
- Typewritten on A4 size (21 x 29.4 centimeters) on one side.
- Use top and bottom margin at 1 inch (2.54 centimeters) and left and right margin at 1.1 inch (2.54 centimeters).
- Use TH SarabunPSK or TH Sarabun New fonts with font size at 16 points for content.
- Use single spacing.
3. Citation Style
- Use footnote format for citation, using TH SarabunPSK or TH Sarabun New fonts with font size at 12.5 points.
- Use OSCOLA Style Citation, for instance:
Legal Citation Format:
    รัฐธรรมนูญราชอาณาจักรไทย พ.ศ. 2560 มาตรา 30.
    พระราชบัญญัติการรับขนของทางทะเล พ.ศ. 2534 มาตรา 19.
Case Citation Format:
    Balogh v Hungary App no 47940/99 (ECtHR, 20 July 2004).
Book Citation Format:
    จุมพต สายสุนทร, กฎหมายระหว่างประเทศ (เล่ม 1, พิมพ์ครั้งที่ 2, วิญญูชน 2543) 44.
    Andrew Burrow, Remedies for Torts and Breach for Contract (3rd edn, Oxford University Press 2004) 317.
Article Citation Format:
    กรศุทธิ์ ขอพ่วงกลาง, 'อิทธิพลของคำมั่นสัญญาในคำเสนอบ่งเวลา' ใน สุดา วิศรุตพิชญ์ และคณะ (บรรณาธิการ) 60 ปีดาราพร (โรงพิมพ์เดือนตุลา 2555) 25-40.
    Sophia Kopela, 'Archipelagos and archipelagic regime in the law of the the sea' in Gordon Houlden and Nong Hong (eds) Maritime Order and the Law in East Asia (Rougtledge 2020) 228.
    เสาวนีย์ อัศวโรจน์, 'การระงับข้อพิพาททางการค้าระหว่างประเทศ' (2530) 2 วารสารนิติศาสตร์ มหาวิทยาลัยธรรมศาสตร์ 36, 38-40.
    Jeremy Waldron, 'The Core of the Case against Judicial Review' (2006) 115 Yale Law Journal 1346, 1372.
Thesis Citation Format:
    สุรศักดิ์ ลิขสิทธิ์วัฒนกุล, 'ความรับผิดทางอาญาของนิติบุคคล: การศึกษาทางกฎหมายเปรียบเทียบ โดยเฉพาะที่เกี่ยวกับประเทศไทย' (วิทยานิพนธ์ นิติศาสตรมหาบัณฑิต มหาวิทยาลัยธรรมศาสตร์ 2527) 130-133.
    Ram S Jakhu, 'The Legal Regime of the Geostationary Orbit' (D.C.L. Thesis McGill University 1983) 40.
Blog and Website Citation Format:
    วีรพงษ์ สุนทรฉัตราวัฒน์ และคณะ, 'คุยกันแบบไทยๆ กับ ธงชัย วินิจจะกูล แปดเดือนก่อนแสดงปาฐกถา Rule by Law แบบไทย' (Way Magazine, 5 พฤษภาคม 2563) <https://waymagazine.org/thongchai-vinijjakul> สืบค้นเมื่อ 19 กันยายน 2563.
    'Why does the data protection law apply to?' (European Commision) <https://ec.europa.eu/info/law/law-topic/data-protection/reform/rules-business-and-organisations/application-regulation/who-does-data-protection-law-apply_en> accessed 11 October 2020.
Subsequent Citation Format:
Full Citation
⁵⁰ H Patrick Glenn, The Cosmoplitan State (Oxford University Press 2013) 156.
Subsequent citation using shortened form of case name and a cross-citation to footnote 1 where the full citation can be found
⁶⁵ H Patrick Glenn (n 50) 291.
* Thai Version (เชิงอรรถ 50)

Full Citation
¹⁵ Michael G Bridge and others, 'Formalism, Functionalism, and Understanding Secured Transactions' (1999) 44 McGill Law Journal 580.
Subsequent citation immediately after the full citation:
¹⁶ Ibid.
Original source cited again but with different page numbers
¹⁷ Ibid 320.
For more information, please visit: https://www.law.ox.ac.uk/sites/files/oxlaw/oscola_4th_edn_hart_2012.pdf

4. Authors should ensure that all errors relating to spelling, Thai and English grammar, and inconsistency of using transliteration of English words be corrected throughout the manuscript.
5. Content and footnote of each manuscript should not exceed 30 pages, or under the sole discretion of the editorial board.

Submitting Manuscript
1. Nitiparitat Journal only accepts manuscripts which are submitted through online channel, in accordance with the requirement prescribed by the Thai Citation Index (TCI). Authors can submit their manuscript through the website of the journal using the Thai Journals Online (ThaiJO) system at: https://so06.tci-thaijo.org/index.php/NitiPariJ/about/submissions
2. Online submission process
- Visit the journal website at: https://so06.tci-thaijo.org/index.php/NitiPariJ/index (readable in both Thai and English, but clicking change-language button at the top right of the website)
- Registration as members of the ThaiJO System is required before submission.
- Study the “Author’s Guidelines” carefully and perform preliminary formatting as prescribed by the journal.
- Submit the manuscript
- For more information, please visit: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1y217JvKwnwdevJdP2X1fjNT5OPxZ2aaZ/view

Review Process
The Editorial Board of Nitiparitat Journal will utilize the following procedure in receiving and reviewing the submitted manuscripts:
1. After the authors have submitted the manuscripts through the online channel, the authors will be informed of the acknowledgment of submission.
2. The Editorial Board will process the manuscripts for initial screening and inform the authors of the decision without delay.
- The manuscripts that pass the initial screening will proceed to the following stage.
- The manuscripts that are rejected in the initial screening will not be considered for publication.
3. If the manuscript passes the initial screening, it will undergo reviewing process.
- Each academic and research articles shall be peer reviewed using the double-blinded process by at least one qualified individuals, whom the Editorial Board carefully select owing to their expertise corresponded with the substance presented in the articles.
- Other manuscripts shall be reviewed by the Editorial Board.
4. Having reviewed the manuscripts, the reviewers or the Editorial Board will provide expert opinions on the quality of the manuscripts, such as academic errors, use of language, content comprehensiveness, academic quality, clarity, importance to the relevant academic field, and classify the decision into one of the followings:
- Accepted for publication without any revision.
- Revision is mandatory, and the revised manuscripts shall be sent to the Editor-in-Chief to consider or returned to the reviewers for further review.
- Not accepted for publication.
5. The Editorial Board will, without delay, inform the authors of one of the following decisions.
- If the manuscripts are “accepted for publication without any revision”, they will be eligible to proceed to the following stage.
- If the manuscripts are noted as “revision is mandatory, and the revised manuscripts shall be sent to the Editor-in-Chief to consider or returned to the reviewers for further review”, they will only be eligible to proceed to the following stage after the authors have revised them, and the Editor-in-Chief or the reviewers (as the case may be) have so agreed.
- If the manuscripts are “not accepted for publication”, they will not be considered for publication.
6. After receiving the follow-up evaluation from the reviewers, the Editorial Board will perform a final check of the manuscripts before proceeding to printing. The Editorial Board reserves the right to check, revise, request for additional information, and perform formatting in accordance with the prescribed style. The Editorial Board may request the author to perform additional revision if necessary.
7. The Editorial Board will publish the manuscripts that have been evaluated as “accepted for publication without any revision” or that, in the case of having been evaluated as “revision is mandatory, and the revised manuscripts shall be sent to the Editor-in-Chief to consider or returned to the reviewers for further review”, have been revised satisfactorily, and have been formatted in accordance with the prescribed style. The Editorial Board reserves the right to determine the order of publication in the appropriate occasion.

Other Requirements
When submitting the manuscripts to be considered for publication, the authors agree, accept, and warrant that:
1. The manuscript has not been previously published in any form, nor is it is under review for publication in any other journals within 90 days from the date when the Editorial Board has received this manuscript.
2. The manuscript is written exclusively by the author or along with the co-author(s) as submitted.
3. The manuscript is original, does not contain plagiarism, and does not infringe any copyright.
4. The Editorial Board reserves the right to perform additional revision and/or formatting into the prescribed style, to convert this manuscript into an electronic form (PDF) for publication in the website of Faculty of Law, Chulalongkorn University online library, and to publish this manuscript from the date hereof onwards.
5. Decision whether to publish the manuscript solely belongs to the Editorial Board, and such decision shall be final. The Editorial Board is not responsible for any contents nor accuracy in the manuscript.