Guidelines for in-text citations in thesis

In-text citations can be done in 3 systems as follows :

No.
Regulations for in-text citations in thesis
a) Author-Year Citations
1.
Guidelines for citing authors names
1.1 Thai authors: cite first name, followed by last name / Foreign
authors: cite only last name
1.2 Specify title, rank of nobility (if available) but do not specify
military, police rank academic/professional title e.g. Professor, M.D.,
colonel
2.
Citing individual authors
2.1 One author
2.2 Two authors: link with and
2.3 Three authors: list all authors in the first citation, put only first
author, followed by et al. or and others in the next citations
2.4 More than three authors: put first author, followed by et al. or
and others
3.
Citing institutional authors
First citation Put full name and abbreviations (if available)
Next citations Put abbreviations (if available), if not available, put
full name
4.
Citing two or more documents by the same author
4.1 Different year of publication
4.2 Same year of publication
5.
Citing two or more documents by multiple authors
5.1 List authors names by alphabetical order, followed by year of
publication, link each document with ;
5.2 List by chronological order, link each document with ;
6.
Citing anonymous authors
6.1 Put title
6.2 Put editor or compiler
7.
Citing documents cited in other documents
Put authors name and year of original documents publication,
followed by cited in and secondary documents authors name and
year of publication
8.
Interview
9.
Online materials
10.
Citing special or miscellaneous materials
9.1 manuscript, ancient scripture
9.2 radio/television program
9.3 slide, filmstrip
9.4 cassette
9.5 critique: put critics name
b) Numerical Citations
11.
Put number in ( ) or [ ] and arrange at the same level of the content or
hanging above the line, ranging from number 1 and continue
throughout the thesis.

Document 1
Examples

(Plueang Na Nakhon, 1968: 160) / (Fontana, 1985: 61)

(M.L. Bunlua Thepayasuwan, 1977: 34)

(Plueang Na Nakhon, 1968: 160)

(Chakkrit Noranitipadung, and Thawee Suanmalee, 1976) / (Schlachter and Thompson, 1974)
First time (Khanit Meesommon, Sawaeng Pongern and Sanong Khansith, 1959: 25)
(Case, Borgman, and Meadow, 1986: 31)
Second time (Khanit Meesommon et al, 1959: 25) / (Case et al., 1986: 31)
(Sumon Amornvivat et al, 1992) / (Takac et al., 1982)

First citation (The Express Transportation Organization of Thailand [E.T.O.], 1976: 25)
Second citation (E.T.O., 1976: 25)

(Boonyong Gadetade, 1973: 74, 2520: 18-20, 1980: 14-15)

(Chuea Satawetin, 1973a: 3, 1973b: 143) / (Bruce, 1980a: 4, 1980b: 4, 1980c: 18)

(Chuea Satawetin, 1973b: 143; Plueang Na Nakhon, 1969: 1-15)

(Woodward, 1965: 77-78; Fiedler, 1967: 15)
(Geography of Asia, 1939: 15-16)
(Tuan Wiriyaporn, editor, 1962: 60)

(Somdej Krom Phraya Damrong Rajanupab, 1952: 110 cited in Manmas Chawalit, 1966: 38)
(Apichat Suebsombat, Interview, 5 September 1986)
(Maefaluang University, 2004: Online) / (Singh, 2002: online)
(Karaket. White Thai book Black Thai letters, 1: 55)
(Krom Phraya Damrong Rajanupab, TV Series Moradok Thai)
(Department of Agricultural Extension, Slides)
(MR Kugrit Pramoj, Cassette)
(Kesinee Hongsanan 1974: 379)
since nowadays the need for mobile communication system is increasing rapidly and radio wave
is a limited resource, the resource management [1]

No.
Rules for in-text citations in thesis
c) Footnotes Citations
12.
Use number typed slightly above the line but without ( ), starting
from number 1 and continue until the chapter ends. Start anew with
number 1 for every new chapter.

Examples
this literature is a historical document which historians must study1
_____________
1
Khajorn Suyapanich, Thanandorn Prai (Bangkok: Department of History, Srinakharinwiroj
Prasarnmit University, 1976), Page 2.

13.

Books
Author, // Book Title (Place of publication: / Publisher, / Year), /
Page
14.
Journals
Author, // Name of Article, / Journal Title, / Year or Volume,
No./(mouth/Year):/Page.
15.
Article Entry in a Book
Author,// Name of Article,/in/Book Title,//Editors name, editor
(if available). (Place of publication:/Publisher,/Year),/Page
16.
Newspaper Article
Author,// Name of Article, /Name of Newspaper
(Date/Month/Year):/Page.
17.
Encyclopedia
Author,// Name of Article, /Name of Encyclopedia/Year or
Volume / (Month/Year of publication): / Page.
18.
Thesis
Author,/ Thesis Title, /(Degree/Field or
Department/Faculty/University, Academic Year), Page.
19.
Interview
Interview // Interviewee, // Position (if available), // Date Month
Year of Interview.
20.
Online materials
Author or Supervisor,/Name [Type of Material],/Year of
publication or Date of Reference./Source
21.
Citing same documents
- Without intervening document: put Ibid. Specify
page number if citing different pages.
- With intervening document: omit place of publication,
publisher, year of publication.
*Citing in Content Footnotes
Footnotes that explain or add information from the matter in the text:
divided into:
22.
With author-year citations: use * or number
23.
With numberical and footnote ciations: use only *

Somdet Phramahasamanachao Kromphraya Vajirananavarorasa, The Legend of Wat

Bawornniwet (Phra Nakhon: Sophon Pipatthanakorn Publishing House, 1922). Page 49.
1

Chakkrit Noranitipadung, The Finance of the Municipal, Development Administration

Journal 16 (April 1976): 239.
1

Kuea Suwantat-Pian, Western Society, in Western Civilization, Kuea Suwantat-Pian, editor

(Bangkok: Kampee, 1976), Page 335.
1

MR Kugrit Pramoj, Khao Nai Na, Siam Rat (12 January 1984): 3.

Charoen Intarakaset, Thanandorn, The Royal Institute Encyclopedia 11 (1972-1973): 6914.

Chit Dissayanan, Strategies in Drama Production, Masters Thesis, Mass Communication,

Faculty of Fine and Applied Arts, Chulalongkorn University, 1995).
1

Interview Teanchai Keeranant, President of Chulalongkorn University, 2 June 1996.

Tourism Chiangrai, Frontier Trade [Online], 19 July 2004. Source

www.chiangraiinfo.com/criinfo/agriculture.html
1
Khajorn Sukpanich, Thanandorn Prai (Bangkok: Department of History, Srinakharinwiroj
Prasarnmit University, 1976), Page 2.
2
Charoen Intarakaset, Thanandorn, The Royal Institute Encyclopedia 11 (1972-1973): 6914.
3
Khajorn Sukpanich, Thanandorn Prai, Page 13. (with intervening document)
4
Ibid., Page 35.
(without intervening document)
The very first western style structures in Laos were Probably the statues of Pavie*
________________________
* Auguste Jean-Marie Pavie was a French colonial civil servant.
The very first western style structures in Laos were Probably the statues of Pavie1
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1
Auguste Jean-Marie Pavie was a French colonial civil servant

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