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The CJS publishes original research, review articles or essays, and book reviews relevant to Caribbean natural science. The emphasis is on botany, zoology, ecology, conservation biology and management, archaeology, geology, and paleontology. Papers are submitted as formal articles or research notes; both are similarly constructed but notes are shorter, and their text is not divided by subheadings. Consult recent issues for other details about format and style. All manuscripts are written in English.
Manuscript Preparation
General - Manuscripts should be
double-spaced, with a minimum of 2.5 cm margins on
all sides, and arranged as follows: cover,
abstract, text, acknowledgments, literature cited,
appendix, tables, figure legends, and figures. Please number all
the pages.
Cover -
The cover has the title, authors' names,
postal addresses, and email address of the
corresponding author only.
Abstract - An informative abstract
shorter than 250 words is included. Informative abstracts
include the purpose of the research, the main
methods used, the most important results, and the
most significant conclusions.
Keywords - Supply 4 to 8 keywords that describe the
main content of the article. Select words different
than those in the title and list them in order of
importance.Text - Main headings (Introduction, Materials and Methods, Discussion) should be centered and capitalized; research notes lack headings. If the study site description is complementary to the work include it as a subheading within Materials and Methods section. Use italics instead of underlining for scientific names. The International System (SI) is used for all units and measurements. Cite references by author and year. In the literature cited section, list all authors for papers with up to five authors, and list the first author followed by et al. for articles with six or more authors. All references included in the literature cited section must be cited in the text and vice versa. Use this style:
- For an article:
Jackson, G. C. 1997. Frances W. Horne-illustrator of Puerto Rico's
plants and birds.
Caribb. J. Sci. 33(3-4):125-141.
- For an article in a
book: Brown, G. W. 1964. The metabolism
of Amphibia. In Physiology of
the Amphibia, ed. J. A. Moore, 54-98. New
York: Academic Press.
- For a book: Roughgarden,
J. 1995. Anolis lizards of the Caribbean:
Ecology, evolution and plate tectonics.
New York: Oxford Univ. Press.
- For a technical report: Cohen, D. M., and J.
G. Nielsen. 1978. Guide to the identification of
genera of the fish order Ophidiiformes with a
tentative classification of the order. NOAA
Tech Rept. NMFS Cir. 417:1-72.
- For a Web document:
Mari Mutt, J. A. 1998. Print vs. the Internet:
On the Future of the Scientific Journal. http://caribjsci.org/june99-p.160-164.pdf
The text should be precise, clear, and concise.
Avoid verbiage, excessive citations of the
literature (especially to support well known
statements), discussions marginally relevant to
the paper, and other information that adds length
but little substance to the paper. All tables and
figures should be relevant and necessary; do not
present the same data in tables and figures, and
do not use short tables for information that can
be easily presented using text.
Tables - Tables should
have no vertical lines and only three horizontal
lines (under the title, under the headings of the
columns, and at the end of the table). Fill blank
spaces with a dash and explain its meaning at the
end of the title or in a footnote.
Illustrations - Preparation:
Similar figures should be arranged into plates
whenever possible; leave very little space between
adjoining illustrations or separate them with a
thin white line. Line art should be scanned at 900
dpi, photographs (halftone or color) at 300 dpi,
and figures with line art and halftones at 600
dpi. Crop the illustrations to remove non printing
borders. Make lines thick enough and text large
enough to compensate for reduction. Dimensions of
the original artwork should not exceed 28 cm x
21.5 cm; the printed area of the journal page
measures 20.3 x 14 cm. Submission: GIF and JPG
files are adequate for initial submission and
reviewing but are inadequate for top quality
printing. High quality
digital figures and/or hardcopies are needed
before the manuscript is accepted for publication.
The specialized software that the printer uses for
composing articles accepts only illustrations in
EPS and TIFF formats; other formats, as well as figures generated by or embedded in office
programs (Word, Excel, PowerPoint, etc.) cannot be
used. Hardcopies of the
latter can be scanned by the printer if digital
files cannot be used. Figures generated by
specialized illustration programs (e.g., Adobe
Illustrator) should be saved in EPS and/or TIFF
formats; all other figures must be saved in TIFF
format.
The figures will be evaluated during the editorial
reading of the article and if necessary
instructions will be provided for the submission
of adequate illustrations. Authors
must pay the additional cost of printing color
illustrations (approximately US $600 per page).
Manuscript Submission
E-mail: Submit preferably a single Word-compatible file containing text, tables, and figures. You may also submit separate attachments as a zip or TIFF files. Send the manuscript to editorcjs -- AT -- uprm-- DOT -- edu (the e-mail address is provided in this manner to decrease the "spam" that would otherwise be received were it written in a standard format; backwards, the email address in standard format would read as follows: ude.mrpu@sjcrotide). Include in the e-mail message the names and addresses (postal and e-mail) of three specialists qualified to review the manuscript.
Reprints and Page
Charges - The CJS does not provide free
copies of the journal, but reprints can be
purchased using a form received with the proofs.
Authors will be billed US $45 per printed page
after the paper is published. Authors with funds
are expected to pay in full. Authors with limited
funds should make a partial payment. Authors
without funds must request a waiver by writing to
the Editor.
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