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

Sanderson, K. 2007. “Nanotech growing pains”. Nature, 446(7139): 963, ISSN: 1476-4687.

A journal article with 2 authors

Hill, A. & Cooke, G. 2014. “Medicine. Hepatitis C can be cured globally, but at what cost?”. Science (New York, N.Y.), 345(6193): 141–142, ISSN: 1095-9203.

A journal article with 3 authors

Assefa, S.; Xia, F. & Vlasov, Y. A. 2010. “Reinventing germanium avalanche photodetector for nanophotonic on-chip optical interconnects”. Nature, 464(7285): 80–84, ISSN: 1476-4687.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Chang, Y.-C.; Yang, C.-Y.; Sun, R.-L.; Cheng, Y.-F.; Kao, W.-C. & Yang, P.-C. 2013. “Rapid single cell detection of Staphylococcus aureus by aptamer-conjugated gold nanoparticles”. Scientific reports, 3: 1863, 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

Tsui, J. B.-Y. 2004. Fundamentals of Global Positioning System Receivers. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc., ISBN: 9780471712589.

An edited book

Kocsis, R. N. (ed.). 2008. Serial Murder and the Psychology of Violent Crimes. Totowa, NJ: Humana Press, XX, 306 p p., ISBN: 9781588296856.

A chapter in an edited book

From, P. J.; Gravdahl, J. T. & Pettersen, K. Y. 2014. “Kinematics of Vehicle-Manipulator Systems”. In: Gravdahl, J. T. & Pettersen, K. Y. (eds.), Vehicle-Manipulator Systems: Modeling for Simulation, Analysis, and Control, (ser. Advances in Industrial Control), London: Springer, pp. 169–189, ISBN: 9781447154624.

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

O`Callaghan, J. 2017. Gene Cernan, The Last Person To Set Foot On The Moon, Dies At 82. IFLScience, IFLScience, Available: <https://www.iflscience.com/space/gene-cernan-last-person-to-set-foot-on-the-moon-dies-at-82/>, [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 1994. Regulatory Flexibility in Schools: What Happens When Schools Are Allowed to Change the Rules? no. HEHS-94-102, 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

McCarroll, M. L. 2005. Exercise and Airway Clearing Devices in Pulmonary Rehabilitation Programs for Patients with Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease. Doctoral dissertation, Columbus, OH: Ohio State University.

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

Johnson, G. 2012. “Quantum Leaps”. New York Times, 5 August, p. BR1.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Sanderson, 2007).
This sentence cites two references (Sanderson, 2007; Hill & Cooke, 2014).

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

Two authors: (Hill & Cooke, 2014)
Three or more authors: (Chang et al., 2013)

About the journal

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