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 reference managers.
BibTeX	BibTeX styles 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

Beaudet, A. L. 2010. “Which way for genetic-test regulation? Leave test interpretation to specialists”. Nature, 466(7308): 816–817, ISSN: 1476-4687.

A journal article with 2 authors

Turner, D. B. & Nelson, K. A. 2010. “Coherent measurements of high-order electronic correlations in quantum wells”. Nature, 466(7310): 1089–1092, ISSN: 1476-4687.

A journal article with 3 authors

Sweeney, A.; Jiggins, C. & Johnsen, S. 2003. “Insect communication: Polarized light as a butterfly mating signal”. Nature, 423(6935): 31–32, ISSN: 0028-0836.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Kragl, M.; Knapp, D.; Nacu, E.; Khattak, S.; Maden, M.; Epperlein, H. H. & Tanaka, E. M. 2009. “Cells keep a memory of their tissue origin during axolotl limb regeneration”. Nature, 460(7251): 60–65, ISSN: 1476-4687.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Wolf, E. L. & Medikonda, M. 2012. Understanding the Nanotechnology Revolution. Weinheim, Germany: Wiley-VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA, ISBN: 9783527664863.

An edited book

Demazeux, S. & Singy, P. (eds.). 2015. The DSM-5 in Perspective: Philosophical Reflections on the Psychiatric Babel. (ser. History, Philosophy and Theory of the Life Sciences), vol. 10, Dordrecht: Springer Netherlands, XXIV, 238 p p., ISBN: 9789401797641.

A chapter in an edited book

Ooi, C. C. & Schindelhauer, C. 2009. “Energy-Efficient Distributed Target Tracking Using Wireless Relay Robots”. In: Asama, H., Kurokawa, H., Ota, J. & Sekiyama, K. (eds.), Distributed Autonomous Robotic Systems 8, Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer, pp. 39–50, ISBN: 9783642006432.

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

Luntz, S. 2015. Citizen Scientists Find Five New Supernovae. IFLScience, IFLScience, Available: <https://www.iflscience.com/space/volunteers-find-five-supernovae-0/>, [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 1988. DP Insurance: A Management Tool. no. 137543, 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

Murray, B. A. 2015. Sociocultural factors in women’s health in Swaziland. Doctoral dissertation, Bloomington, IN: Indiana 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

Gelles, S. M. 2016. “Sweating Out a Singles Mixer From Behind a Stall”. New York Times, 3 January, p. ST5.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Beaudet, 2010).
This sentence cites two references (Beaudet, 2010; Turner & Nelson, 2010).

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

Two authors: (Turner & Nelson, 2010)
Three or more authors: (Kragl et al., 2009)

About the journal

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