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

Gershon, D. 2000. “The economic impact of Silicon Valley’s immigrant entrepreneurs”. Nature, 405(6786): 598, ISSN: 1476-4687.

A journal article with 2 authors

Feuillet, C. & Eversole, K. 2009. “Plant science. Solving the maze”. Science (New York, N.Y.), 326(5956): 1071–1072, ISSN: 1095-9203.

A journal article with 3 authors

Baird, P.; Downie, J. & Thompson, J. 2002. “Medicine. Clinical trials and industry”. Science (New York, N.Y.), 297(5590): 2211, ISSN: 1095-9203.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Pereira Morais, M. P.; Marshall, D.; Flower, S. E.; Caunt, C. J.; James, T. D.; Williams, R. J.; Waterfield, N. R. & van den Elsen, J. M. H. 2013. “Analysis of protein glycation using fluorescent phenylboronate gel electrophoresis”. Scientific reports, 3: 1437, ISSN: 2045-2322.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Zwecher, M. J. 2010. Retirement Portfolios. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc., ISBN: 9781118268261.

An edited book

Deshpande, S. (ed.). 2015. Philosophy in Colonial India. (ser. Sophia Studies in Cross-cultural Philosophy of Traditions and Cultures), vol. 11, New Delhi: Springer India, XIII, 272 p. 1 illus p., ISBN: 9788132222224.

A chapter in an edited book

Anastasio, T. J. 2015. “Computer Modeling in Neuroscience: From Imperative to Declarative Programming”. In: Martí-Oliet, N., Ölveczky, P. C. & Talcott, C. (eds.), Logic, Rewriting, and Concurrency: Essays Dedicated to José Meseguer on the Occasion of His 65th Birthday, (ser. Lecture Notes in Computer Science), Cham: Springer International Publishing, pp. 97–113, ISBN: 9783319231648.

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. 2014. It May Benefit Lady Birds to Get Divorced. IFLScience, IFLScience, Available: <https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/it-may-benefit-lady-birds-get-divorced/>, [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 1979. Automated Systems Security--Federal Agencies Should Strengthen Safeguards Over Personal and Other Sensitive Data. no. LCD-78-123, 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

Selis, A. H. 2010. Holding the center: How one Jewish day school negotiates differences in a pluralistic community. Doctoral dissertation, College Park, MD: University of Maryland, College Park.

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

Qiu, L. 2017. “Phone Surveillance, Falsehoods and Anonymous Sources”. New York Times, 6 March, p. A16.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Gershon, 2000).
This sentence cites two references (Gershon, 2000; Feuillet & Eversole, 2009).

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

Two authors: (Feuillet & Eversole, 2009)
Three or more authors: (Pereira Morais et al., 2013)

About the journal

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