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Articles should contain title, authors' details, abstract (in English and Spanish), keywords, introduction, materials and methods, results, discussion, conclusions, acknowledgements and references. Each subheading should be headed with its subtitle, without a full stop, in bold, with capital letters and to the left. Subheadings of the article should be in bold, in sentence style and to the left, which are included at the discretion of the authors; if there are lower-ranking subheadings, they should be denoted in italics.

Scientific names of taxa should be in accordance with the current International Code of Nomenclature for Algae, Fungi and Plants, and written, at all ranks, in italics, as in the Code. Names of species and infraspecific taxa are cited with their author(s) the first time they appear in the text, except in cases where there is a list or table of all scientific names mentioned in the paper. Authors' names are abbreviated according to the International Plant Names Index (IPNI; http://www.ipni.org/), except for the spaces used after full stops. When the generic name is repeated in the same paragraph, it is abbreviated if there is no possibility of mistake, if it is not the first word of a sentence. Symbols, abbreviations and acronyms, except for herbaria which will follow the Index Herbariorum (http://sweetgum.nybg.org/science/ih/), will be defined in parentheses the first time they are mentioned.

For the writing of numbers, decimals are always separated by a dot (3.1416) and in numbers with more than four digits, the appropriate sign to separate thousands in Spanish is the non-division space (30 000) and the comma in English (30,000). Numbers less than 10, which are not followed by units, are written in words. Elements outside the number (symbols or units) should be separated by a space (23 %).

Tables and figures should be complementary to the text and not reiterative of it, may be in colour and should be included with their corresponding table heading or figure caption, cited in the order in which they appear in the text, in parentheses and numbered in Arabic numerals independently, e.g. (Table 1) or (Fig. 1). Figures should be submitted as separate files in .png or .tiff format and at a resolution of no less than 300 dpi; figure captions should appear at the end of the text and include the authorship of the photographs/illustrations.

Bibliographical references in the text are cited as follows: Acevedo-Rodríguez & Strong (2012) or (Acevedo-Rodríguez & Strong 2012); if there are more than two authors, Gómez-Hechavarría & al. (2025), note the use of ‘&’ instead of ‘et’; if the page number is indicated, indicate it after the year and a colon. References cited are ordered chronologically and if they are all included within a parenthesis they are separated by commas: (Herrera 2006, Oviedo 2011, Berazaín 2017, 2024). Publications without defined authors and editors are attributed to Anonymous, which does not include working groups, institutions and websites with an acronym as publication identity, such as GEPC (2024), IPNI (2025) or POWO (2025+). Personal communications from specialists are cited in the text as follows: (E. R. Bécquer 2024, pers. comm.). Citations of unpublished papers such as project reports and papers at events are accepted only if they are contained in publicly accessible proceedings or repositories. All bibliographical references and personal communications cited in the text are listed at the end of the manuscript, under the heading References, ordered by author and year, with the inclusion of all authors, as well as DOIs whenever possible. Examples are given below according to different references.

Acevedo-Rodríguez, P. & Strong, M.T. 2012. Catalogue of Seed Plants of the West Indies. Smith. Contr. Bot. 98. https://doi.org/10.5479/si.0081024X.98.1

Adams, C.D. 1972. Flowering Plants of Jamaica. Mona (Jamaica).

Alain, Hno. 1953. Flora de Cuba 3. Dicotiledóneas: Malpighiaceae a Myrtaceae. Contr. Ocas. Mus. Hist. Nat. Colegio “De La Salle” 13.

Axelrod, F.S. 2011. A systematic vademecum to the vascular plants of Puerto Rico. Sida Bot. Misc. 34.

Bécquer, E.R. (com. pers.). 2024. Seymeriopsis bissei no muestra indicios de hemiparasitismo en su hábitat. Jardín Botánico Nacional, Universidad de La Habana. pachyanthus@gmail.com

Berazaín, R. 2017. Ericaceae. Fl. Rep. Cuba, Ser. A. Pl. Vasc. 22(2). https://doi.org/10.3372/frc.22.2

Berazaín, R. 2024. Ericaceae. Pp. 450-453. En: GEPC. Catálogo de las Plantas de Cuba. Planta! – Plantlife Conservation Society, Vancouver. https://doi.org/10.70925/cat.2024_095

GEPC [Grupo de Especialistas en Plantas Cubanas]. 2024. Catálogo de las Plantas de Cuba. Planta! – Plantlife Conservation Society, Vancouver. https://doi.org/10.70925/cat.2024

Gómez-Hechavarría, J.L., Bécquer, E.R. & González, P.A. 2024. Nuevos registros de plantas para la flora de Cuba. Caribea 1(1): 1-21. https://doi.org/10.70925/caribea1.1-21

Greuter, W. & Rankin, R. 2022. Plantas Vasculares de Cuba – Inventario, ed. 3. Berlin & La Habana. https://doi.org/10.3372/cubalist.2022.1

Herrera, P.P. 2006. Sistema de Clasificación artificial de las magnoliatas sinántropas de Cuba. PhD. Thesis. Universidad de Alicante & Universidad de Pinar del Río.

IPNI. 2025+. International Plant Names Index. The Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew; Harvard University Herbaria & Libraries and Australian National Herbarium. https://www.ipni.org/

Liogier, A.H. 1989. Flora de La Española, vol. 5. San Pedro de Macorís.

Oviedo, R. (ed.). 2011. Plantas invasoras presentes en la República de Cuba. Estrategia para la prevención y manejo de especies con mayor nivel de agresividad. Informe Final de Proyecto. Instituto de Ecología y Sistemática, La Habana.

POWO. 2025+. Plants of the World Online. Kew Royal Botanic Gardens. https://powo.science.kew.org/