How to format your references using the Revista Cubana de Meteorologia citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Revista Cubana de Meteorologia. For a complete guide how to prepare your manuscript refer to the journal's instructions to authors.

Using reference management software

Typically you don't format your citations and bibliography by hand. The easiest way is to use a reference manager:

Paperpile	The citation style is built in and you can choose it in Settings > Citation Style or Paperpile > Citation Style in Google Docs.
EndNote	Find the style here: output styles overview
Mendeley, Zotero, Papers, and others	The style is either built in or you can download a CSL file that is supported by most references management programs.
BibTeX	BibTeX syles are usually part of a LaTeX template. Check the instructions to authors if the publisher offers a LaTeX template for this journal.

Journal articles

Those examples are references to articles in scholarly journals and how they are supposed to appear in your bibliography.

Not all journals organize their published articles in volumes and issues, so these fields are optional. Some electronic journals do not provide a page range, but instead list an article identifier. In a case like this it's safe to use the article identifier instead of the page range.

A journal article with 1 author

Lee, P. A. 2014. “Physics. Seeking out Majorana under the microscope”. Science (New York, N.Y.), 346(6209): 545–546, ISSN: 1095-9203.

A journal article with 2 authors

Knorr, G. & Lohmann, G. 2003. “Southern Ocean origin for the resumption of Atlantic thermohaline circulation during deglaciation”. Nature, 424(6948): 532–536, ISSN: 1476-4687.

A journal article with 3 authors

Bennett, V. C.; Brandon, A. D. & Nutman, A. P. 2007. “Coupled 142Nd-143Nd isotopic evidence for Hadean mantle dynamics”. Science (New York, N.Y.), 318(5858): 1907–1910, ISSN: 1095-9203.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Dennis, P. B.; Jaeschke, A.; Saitoh, M.; Fowler, B.; Kozma, S. C. & Thomas, G. 2001. “Mammalian TOR: a homeostatic ATP sensor”. Science (New York, N.Y.), 294(5544): 1102–1105, ISSN: 0036-8075.

Books and book chapters

Here are examples of references for authored and edited books as well as book chapters.

An authored book

Boillot, M. 2014. Advanced Smart Grids for Distribution System Operators: Volume 1. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc., ISBN: 9781119054030.

An edited book

Peinke, J.; Schaumann, P. & Barth, S. (eds.). 2007. Wind Energy: Proceedings of the Euromech Colloquium. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer, XXXII, 332 p. 199 illus., 2 illus. in color p., ISBN: 9783540338659.

A chapter in an edited book

Liu, T.; Lu, A.; Zhu, X.; Zhang, N.; Cheng, G.; Wang, N.; Liu, F.; Guo, K. & Wang, H. 2012. “Effect of Spleen Deficiency Syndrome on the Expression of TLR2 and TLR4 in Rats”. In: Wu, Y. (ed.), Software Engineering and Knowledge Engineering: Theory and Practice: Volume 2, (ser. Advances in Intelligent and Soft Computing), Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer, pp. 33–39, ISBN: 9783642253485.

Web sites

Sometimes references to web sites should appear directly in the text rather than in the bibliography. Refer to the Instructions to authors for Revista Cubana de Meteorologia.

Blog post

Fang, J. 2015. Climate Warming is Turning Mummies into Black Ooze. IFLScience, IFLScience, Available: <https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/climate-warming-turning-mummies-black-ooze/>, [Consulted: October 30, 2018].

Reports

This example shows the general structure used for government reports, technical reports, and scientific reports. If you can't locate the report number then it might be better to cite the report as a book. For reports it is usually not individual people that are credited as authors, but a governmental department or agency like "U. S. Food and Drug Administration" or "National Cancer Institute".

Government report

Government Accountability Office 2015. International Space Station: Measurable Performance Targets and Documentation Needed to Better Assess Management of National Laboratory. no. GAO-15-397, Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office.

Theses and dissertations

Theses including Ph.D. dissertations, Master's theses or Bachelor theses follow the basic format outlined below.

Doctoral dissertation

Campos-Doerfler, L. 2017. The Role of Sgs1 and Exo1 in the Maintenance of Genome Stability. Doctoral dissertation, Tampa, FL: University of South Florida.

News paper articles

Unlike scholarly journals, news papers do not usually have a volume and issue number. Instead, the full date and page number is required for a correct reference.

New York Times article

Porter, J. 2016. “Steve Dillon, 54, Comic Artist; Helped Create ‘Preacher’”. New York Times, 24 October, p. A19.

In-text citations

References should be cited in the text by name and year in parentheses:

This sentence cites one reference (Lee, 2014).
This sentence cites two references (Knorr & Lohmann, 2003; Lee, 2014).

Here are examples of in-text citations with multiple authors:

Two authors: (Knorr & Lohmann, 2003)
Three or more authors: (Dennis et al., 2001)

About the journal

Full journal title	Revista Cubana de Meteorologia
ISSN (print)	0864-151x
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