Guidelines

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FOCUS AND SCOPE

The journal Cub@: Environment and Development is aimed at national and international scientists and technicians. The objective is to publish mono- and multidisciplinary studies of interest to any discipline related to the environment and development derived from environmental research and management. Receives original and unpublished contributions that have not been submitted simultaneously to review processes of other journals, in the scope of:

  • Studies on the natural and socioeconomic components of influence on environmental processes (climate, soil, vegetation, settlements, agriculture, among others)
  • Biological Diversity
  • Comprehensive environmental diagnostics
  • Evaluations on the potential and management of resources (marine, coastal, land, human, among others)
  • Problems of quality and environmental sanitation (overexploitation of the environment, pollution, desertification, unhealthiness, poverty)
  • Conservation and protection of the environment
  • Vulnerability and disaster risks
  • Environmental management
  • Environmental education
  • Environmental impact assessment
  • Environmental policy
  • Environmental planning and management
  • Protected areas
  • Environmental law
  • Clean technologies
  • Environmental legislation
  • Computer science and other technological applications for environmental analysis
  • Sustainable development strategies
  • Environment, development and integration

SECTIONS OF THE JOURNAL

The journal receives the following types of contributions:

  • Articles: Includes development, research and application work.
  • Communications: Brief works on results in progress or other contributions that deserve rapid dissemination.
  • Profile: Biographical sketch of personalities of Cuban or international science, outstanding in the environmental field.
  • News: Updated information on scientific events, held or to be held, conferences, among others.
  • Notes of interest: Aspects of our natural heritage that arouse curiosity due to their originality.

SUBMISSION OF WORK

The works must be sent via email to the address revistacmad@gmail.com. They will be contained in letter-sized digital files (21.59 x 27.94 cm) with a “.docx” extension of the Word word processor. For its formation, the 12-point Arial font must be used, at 1.15 line spacing, in a single column. Articles will have a maximum length of 10 pages, literature reviews may reach up to 20 pages and communications no more than 5 pages. The total number of pages includes plates, graphs, tables and all types of illustration.

The submission of each work must be accompanied by a letter signed by the author stating:

FIRST: That I am the author of the article whose title was stated above, and consequently primarily responsible for it.

SECOND: All those natural persons who have contributed substantially to the creation of the work have been declared as authors and there is no conflict of interest between any of them.</p >

THIRD: That I authorize the journal to publish it without charge on my part, by the means or formats that the Editorial Committee determines in accordance with the license Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 (CC BY-NC 4.0).

FOURTH: I declare that this article has been submitted exclusively to the Editorial Board of the journal, and does not contain sensitive or classified information of any natural or legal person.

To prepare this document the author must use the available preform.

ARBITRATION PROCESS

Once the article is received, an acknowledgment communication will be sent to the corresponding author. Next, two specialists from the area related to the study will be selected who will act as national or international referees for a scientific review of the document. During the opinion process, evaluators and authors preserve anonymity.

The evaluation system is by the blind peer arbitration method. The articles received are distributed by the president of the Editorial Committee, with two referees participating, who are given models, so that they can make reviews where they express their criteria (opinion) and make comments on the quality of said articles, whether or not they are selected. themselves by the Editorial Committee.

Possible outcomes of the review process may be:

  • Accepted
  • Minor revision
  • Major revision
  • Rejected

The review process will never take more than three months from receipt of the document. If the work was classified as reviewable, the authors may carry out the appropriate review of the document, which will be returned to the editors within a month. The editors will decide whether or not it is necessary to send the document to the referees again, having the capacity to exercise the final opinion. No more than two reviews per document will be allowed except in exceptional cases.

In cases of controversy, that is, when one of the two evaluating referees issues an opinion of accepted and the other of rejected or accepted with modifications, an evaluation request is sent to a third party. referee and after his verdict the Editorial Committee weighs the three evaluations and will issue the verdict of accepted, minor revision, major revision or rejected.

Due to suspicion or non-compliance with some of the good ethical practices established in the Journal Code and other cases of Dispute, we will proceed as established in the Flow Charts< /a> of the Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE) for each case.

The average time between receipt of the work and the final verdict is three months. After the document is approved, its final versions will be published within a period of no more than two weeks.

In the evaluation process the referees will take into account the following parameters:

  • Originality: If the contribution is new and original, through the use of anti-plagiarism processes.
  • Title: Concise, specific, with appropriate syntax and reflecting the content of the work in no more than 15 words.
  • Summary/Abstract: Expressing the objective, methods, main results and conclusions with full correspondence between them.
  • Key words/Key words: No more than 5 words, all necessary, standardized and descriptive of the content with correspondence between them.</li >
  • Introduction: That clearly defines the problem, the scope and objective of the research, the state of the art and how it has been approached by other researchers.
  • Materials and Methods: That express the quantity and quality of the materials used, that the methodology used and the experimental conditions are relevant to the stated objective, and whether the statistical analyzes are mentioned and are appropriate.
  • Results and Discussion: That the results are clearly stated and presented logically with the help of images, tables and figures. That the interpretations are correct and the relationship between the data obtained is highlighted. If there is a contrast between the results and those of other published works, and if the possible theoretical and/or practical implications are highlighted in a way that supports the conclusions.
  • References: That the appropriate sources of scientific information are used and that they present an adequate percentage of current events. That the citations in the text and the bibliography are correctly established according to the bibliographic style of the journal.
  • Images, Tables and Figures: All necessary, intelligible, self-explanatory and of high quality, presented in a timely manner in the body of the work.
  • English: Suitable for compression of the title, summary and keywords.
  • Dimensions: Parts of the work can be enlarged, reduced or eliminated.

The arbitration form can be consulted at: Arbitration Form

AUTHORSHIP STATEMENT

The authors should be placed in descending order, according to the percentage of participation of each one in the work. Only those people who substantially participated in the conception of the idea and design of the study, in the acquisition and analysis of the data, and in the writing of the article or its intellectual critical review will be considered authors. The authors must have sufficient knowledge of the research that was carried out and therefore be able to make any scientific argument in this regard. The names of the people who have provided technical support to the work or general supervision of the research group and the institutions that provided funding will be included in the acknowledgments. Only substantial contributions will be appreciated, and these alone do not justify scientific authorship. The main author is directly responsible for having correctly assigned co-authorship and acknowledgments; as well as that there are no “guest authors”, a practice that penalizes the journal.

Each document must explicitly present a section called "Declaration of contribution" in which it will be explicitly established which of the 14 authorship roles described in CRediT (Contributor Roles Taxonomy) were involved. This declaration aims to prevent the phenomenon of guest authorship and homogenize contribution roles in the academic community.

STRUCTURE OF CONTRIBUTIONS

The general structure of scientific articles must be:

  • Title in Spanish and English (up to 15 words)
  • Authors
  • Author affiliations and corresponding author email
  • Summary/Abstract (up to 150 words)
  • Key words/Key words (up to 5)
  • Introduction
  • Materials and Methods
  • Results and Discussion
  • Conclusions
  • Acknowledgments
  • References

Literature reviews and reviews must have the same structure as scientific articles but without Materials and Methods or Results and Discussion. Instead, the author can add the sections he considers necessary. Letters to the editor and technical reports must include the title in Spanish and English, authors, their affiliations, and the corresponding author's email.

Use of verb tenses

It must be taken into account that each of the sections is written in:

  • Introduction in present tense.
  • Materials and Methods in the past tense.
  • Results in the past and the Discussion in the present.
  • Conclusions in present tense.

Images, graphs and tables

  • For any document, the images, graphs and tables presented will be ordered consecutively using Arabic numerals and their titles are placed using highs and lows without a period at the end.
  • They must be self-explanatory and their information must not be replicated anywhere else in the work.
  • The images will be delivered in independent files, in addition to being inserted in the document after their mention in the text, and must have a resolution of 300 pixels/inches.
  • The graphs will be presented in only two dimensions (2D) with their respective axes and legends, while their series can be differentiated with colors or black and white labels.
  • The tables will be in editable format, with the first row in bold, without dividing lines between the content and with clarifications at the end and centered.

Nomenclature and Units

Authors must follow internationally accepted rules and conventions for the treatment of units of measurements such as the International System of Units (SI). When an abbreviation is used, its meaning must be clarified after its first mention.

Mathematical formulas

Mathematical equations will be sent as editable text and not images. Small fractional terms should be presented simply on a single line using the “/” instead of a horizontal line, for example, X / Y. In principle, variables should be presented in italics. Powers are more convenient to express as exponents. All equations that are not inserted within the text must be numbered consecutively with their respective mention in the text.

Title

  • It must be concise and able to make the reader aware of the essential content of the article.
  • Its maximum length must be 15 words.
  • It should not be overloaded with information in the form of abbreviations, symbols, formulas or unknown characters, and the place where the study was carried out.
  • It should not be a double meaning or literary phrase.
  • Remove subtitles and all non-specific words.
  • In your writing you should use a neutral approach writing style, that is, you should not suggest the result that is going to be obtained.

Summary/Abstract

  • It must be the abbreviated representation of the content of the document.
  • You must summarize in a maximum of 150 words the central aspects included in each of the sections of the document, so that you can: establish the problem, interest and objective of the research. It should describe, without details, the materials chosen and the methods used, and summarize the main results (only these), as well as state the main conclusions.
  • Reference should not be made to figures, tables and bibliographical citations. You should not include information that is not described in the work, nor begin with the objective without first having stated the problematic situation.

Keywords

  • They designate and identify the most important aspects discussed in the article. They serve to locate information of interest and create databases and subject indexes. A maximum of 5 will be written in order of importance to reflect the content of the document. It is proposed to use the multilingual thesaurus AGROVOC.

Introduction

  • It will be brief, try to use the main keywords and will go from general to specific.
  • It must establish the contextual framework in which the problem to be solved is inserted, what is known and what is unknown about the issue in question, what would represent economic, social , technologically and scientifically, the research, and the objective of the work with which it must close.
  • You can also use the three-paragraph outline, where the first paragraph will present the background, the second the why it is necessary to study the problem, and the third the objective.< /li>

Materials and Methods

  • It should provide sufficient information so that the research can be replicated, and unnecessary descriptions should be avoided.
  • It is necessary to mention the materials used that quantitatively or qualitatively determined the obtaining of the data, not the instruments used.
  • In relation to the methods, three possible scenarios must be taken into account:
    1. When the method is standard, simply mention it and include the bibliographic reference.
    2. When the method is not standard but has been used before, discuss why it is necessary to use it and put the bibliographic reference where the method is described.
    3. When the method has been generated or adapted for the study, describe it completely or at least the transformed part.
  • This Materials and Methods section can be organized into 5 areas that include:
    1. Environment: Indicates where the study has been done.
    2. Design: Describe the design of the experiment.
    3. Population: Characterizes the sample and how it was selected and taken.
    4. Interventions: Describe the techniques, methods, measurements and units, equipment and technology.
    5. Statistical analysis: Indicates the statistical programs and methods used. The programs are referenced.
  • The subtitles used to name the areas are freely selected by the authors, examples: General conditions, Treatments, Measurements, Statistical Analysis.

Results and Discussion

  • Never show data that is not clearly related to the objective of the work.
  • The research data is shown in figures and tables, which must be self-explanatory and marked with titles and legends.
  • While the table provides precision, the figures provide a clearer visual impact of the effects of the treatments and of trends and interactions.
  • The two central elements of the discussion are to indicate, with neutral judgment and some speculation, what the findings mean and how these findings relate to what was known until then.
  • Data from figures and tables should not be repeated in the discussion.
  • Make clear the principles, relationships and extrapolations that could be derived from the results (speculations). The exceptions must be highlighted.
  • Indicate how the results and their interpretations agree with, or conflict with, other scientific research.
  • Present the theoretical implications of the work and the practical applications it could have.

Conclusions

  • They should highlight the main implications of the data obtained in the research and not make a statistical count of the values ​​shown.
  • In all cases the conclusions must always be justified by the data presented.

QUOTING GUIDE FORMAT APA (American Psychological Association)

To create this section, the journal follows the guidelines established in the APA (American Psychological Association). To homogenize and facilitate the preparation of citations in the text and references, it is recommended to use the APA CSL citation style processor. Said software can be downloaded from the address https://www.zotero.org/styles/. It is multiplatform, as it works on various operating systems, it has UTF-8 character encoding so it can be used by any type of word processor, and it has XML programming language which enables interoperability between 38 bibliographic managers. >open source of recognized international preference such as: Zotero, Papers, Mendeley, among others.

To prepare the different types of documents, edited and published works must be used such as: journal articles scientific papers, books, book chapters, articles in conferences (conferences, symposiums, seminars, workshops and events, of which at least the proceedings have been published), patents and standards, reports from recognized institutions with international prestige (IOC, UNESCO, among others) that present the corresponding standardized identifier (ISBN, ISSN or DOI), maps and satellite images, legal resources, computer programs and theses (when their results have not been published). Regardless of this range of possibilities, to prepare any type of document, articles in scientific journals should be used to a greater extent, because these constitute the central unit of science to issue its results.

Any other type of reference will not be allowed except for some statistical sites and digital data repositories such as the National Statistics Office and Information (ONEI), among others. The references of each work must present a high percentage of relevance from the last 5 years, except in the cases of bibliographic reviews where the references must cover a wide range of time due to the type of study that is intended to be carried out. Self-citations, both from the author himself and from the journal, should not exceed 20% of the literature consulted.

Within the text it is cited in the form author-year (e.g. Hernández, 2011) by placing a comma “,” between the author's last name and the year of publication. If the citation is made up of two authors, the signature surnames of each one are placed separated by the element “&” and then the year (e.g. Altieri & Funes, 2012). In cases where the citation is made up of more than two authors, “et al.” should be placed after the last name of the main author followed by the year (e.g. Paneque et al., 2010). If the same author(s) with more than one publication in the same year is cited separately in the body of the work, the works must be differentiated by placing the letters “a”, “b” as appropriate (e.g. Paneque et al., 2010a, b). In cases where a corporate author is cited, the abbreviated form of the name must be included (e.g. COI, 2016).

If the citation is made up of multiple sources, that is, from more than one work, a semicolon must be used “;” to separate each one (e.g. Ahmad et al., 2009; Hernández, 2011; Paneque et al., 2010). Citations to multiple sources that present the same authors, but different years of publication, will be placed using the last name of the main author, according to the different forms mentioned above, followed by the years separated by a comma “,” (e.g. Paneque et al. , 2010, 2011).

It is mandatory to include the ISBN and DOI for all documents that were assigned these identifiers. Not all books, conference articles and reports have an ISBN, but whenever it has been assigned, this element should be included. The same happens with the DOI and scientific articles, which not all have it, but whenever it has been assigned it should be offered. This policy is aimed at standardizing the treatment of the metadata of each reference.

There are other mandatory elements that are characteristic of each type of document, these are:< /p>

  • Articles in Scientific Journals: authors, title of the article, name of the journal, volume, number, page range of the article, ISSN, DOI, year of publication.< /p>

  • Books: authors, book title, place of publication, publisher, ISBN, total pages, year of publication.

  • Book chapters: authors, chapter title, book title, place of publication, publisher, ISBN, page range of that chapter, year of publication.

  • Standards, Patents and Legal Resources: natural or corporate authors, title, number or coding, place of publication, issuing institution, total pages, year of publication.

  • Scientific or Technical Reports: natural or corporate authors, title of the report, place of publication, issuing institution, ISBN, total pages, year of publication.

  • Articles in Conferences (conferences and workshops): authors, title, venue, responsible institution or publisher, ISBN, page range, year of publication.</p >

  • Maps and Satellite Images: natural or corporate authors, title, place of publication, publisher, ISBN, scale, year of publication.

  • Computer Programs: natural or corporate authors, title, version, operating system, location, development company, year.

  • Statistical Websites: natural or corporate authors, publication title, site title, publication date, complete email address, date of consultation.

  • Thesis: authors, title, type of thesis, university or research institute where it was presented, place, total pages and year of presentation.

When the documents consulted are electronic, the complete electronic address and date of publication must be added to the aforementioned elements. query.

Below are examples of some types of references established by the APA standard:</p >

Articles in Scientific Journals

Falcón, A. B., Cabrera, J. C., Costales, D., Ramírez, M. A., Cabrera, G., Toledo , V., & Martínez, T. M. A. (2007). The effect of size and acetylation degree of chitosan derivatives on tobacco plant protection against Phytophthora parasitica nicotianae. World Journal of Microbiology and Biotechnology, 24(1), 103–112. DOI: 10.1007/s11274-007-9445-0

Conference Papers (Congresses, Symposium, Seminars, Workshops and Events )

Dobermann, A., Krauss, A., Isherwood, K., & Heffer, P. (2007). Nutrient use efficiency-measurement and management (pp. 1–28). Presented at the IFA International Workshop on Fertilizer Best Management Practices, Brussels, Belgium: International Fertilizer Industry Association. Retrieved April 5, 2016, from http://www.cabdirect.org/abstracts/20083154896.html;jsessionid =FDBB76ECCE587EA330911A0637D26371

Books

Paneque, P. V. M., Calaña, N. J. M., Calderón, V. M., Borges, B. Y., Hernández, G. T. C., & Caruncho, C. M. (2010). Manual of analytical techniques for analysis of soil, foliar, organic fertilizers and chemical fertilizers (1st ed.). Havana, Cuba: INCA Editions. Retrieved April 5, 2016, from http://mst.ama.cu/578/

When the book does not present authors, only editor or other responsible role, it must be specified at the end of the list of names as follows:

Paneque, P. V. M., Calaña, N. J. M., Calderón, V. M., Borges, B. Y., Hernández, G. T. C., & Caruncho, C. M. (Eds.). (2011). Manual of analytical techniques for analysis of soil, foliar, organic fertilizers and chemical fertilizers (1st ed.). Havana, Cuba: INCA Editions. Retrieved April 5, 2016, from http://mst.ama.cu/578/

Section of a Book

Rivera, R., Fernández, F., Fernández, K., Ruiz, L., Sánchez, C ., & Riera, M. (2007). Advances in the Management of Effective Arbuscular Mycorrhizal Symbiosis in Tropical Ecosystems. In C. Hamel & C. Plenchette (Eds.), Mycorrhizae in Crop Production (pp. 151–195). Binghamton, N.Y.: Haworth Food & Agricultural Products Press. Retrieved April 5, 2016, from https://www.amazon.com/Mycorrhizae-Crop-Production -Science/dp/1560223073

Standards and Patents

Freepons, D. E. (1990, October 23). Plant growth regulators derived from chitin. US4964894 A. United States. Retrieved April 5, 2016, from http://www.google.com.cu/patents/US4964894

Computer Programs

Cervantes, B. R., & Alfonso, A. Y. (2016). Latin American Journal of Natural Resources (Version 1.0) [Mulltiplataforma]. Obregon, Mexico. Retrieved from http://www.zotero.org/styles/revista-latinoamericana-de-recursos- natural

Reports

Ahmad, M., Rafique, M., Iqbal, N., Akram, W., & Aasi, M. R. (2009). Study of soil redistribution in cultivated fields using fallout cesium-137 at Fateh Jang, Attock, Pakistan (No. 41067805) (p. 30). Pakistan: Pakistan Institute of Nuclear Science and Technology. Retrieved April 5, 2016, from http://inis.iaea.org/Search/search.aspx ?orig_q=RN:41067805

Thesis

Hernández, H. J. E. (2011). Proposal for an architecture to support collaborative production planning in tree-type supply chains (Doctoral Thesis). Polytechnic University of Valencia, Spain. Retrieved April 5, 2016, from https://riunet.upv.es/handle/10251/14571

Maps

López, L. J. A., Vicente, B. J. M., Blasco, F., Mallén, D., & Saz, D. (2012). GR 11 Pyrenean Path from sea to sea. 1:40,000, 46 Maps of 31.5 x 25 cm, Zaragoza: Prames.

Web Pages

Altieri, M. A., & Funes, M. F. R. (2012, April 12). The paradox of Cuban agriculture [Monthly Review]. Retrieved April 5, 2016, from http://www.nodo50.org/ceprid/spip.php ?article1395&debut_articles_rubrique=45

In the “References” section, it is very common for the metadata of the documents used to be incomplete and not presented with the homogeneity established by the bibliographic style of the journal. In this way, in the arbitration processes various errors are detected due to omission of elements such as: date of publication, publishers and responsible institutions, standardized identifiers (ISBN, DOI), places of publication, pages and electronic addresses. On the other hand, the names of the authors are placed incorrectly and there are grammatical errors in the writing of the titles.

COMPLEMENTARY MATERIALS

Supplementary materials can support and improve scientific research. Supplementary files offer the author additional possibilities to publish supporting applications, high-resolution images, datasets, sound clips, and more. Please note that such items are posted online along with the item exactly as they are shipped. The titles of these materials should be concise and descriptive for each file. If you want to make changes to the supplemental data during any stage of the process, be sure to provide an updated file and not note any corrections to a previous version.