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As part of the submission process, authors are required to check off their submission's compliance with all of the following items, and submissions may be returned to authors that do not adhere to these guidelines.
  • The submission has not been previously published, nor is it before another journal for consideration (or an explanation has been provided in Comments to the Editor).
  • The submission file is in OpenOffice, Microsoft Word, or RTF document file format.
  • Where available, URLs for the references have been provided.
  • The text is single-spaced; uses a 12-point font; employs italics, rather than underlining (except with URL addresses); and all illustrations, figures, and tables are placed within the text at the appropriate points, rather than at the end.
  • The text adheres to the stylistic and bibliographic requirements outlined in the Author Guidelines.

Author Guidelines

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.

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: Capote & Berazaín (1984) or (Capote & Berazaín 1984); if there are more than two authors, González-Torres & al. (2016); if the page number is indicated, indicate it after the year and a colon. Publications without defined authors or editors are attributed to Anonymous, which does not include working groups, institutions and websites with an acronym as publication identity, such as GEPC (2022), IPNI (2024) or POWO (2024+). Personal communications from specialists are cited in the text as follows: (R. Berazaín 2023, 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, according to the following examples:

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

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

Berazaín, R. 2024+. Ericaceae. En: Greuter, W. & Rankin, R. (red.). Base de Datos de especímenes de la Flora de Cuba - con mapas de distribución, v. 16. https://ww3.bgbm.org/FloraOfCuba/ [base de datos]

Capote, R. & Berazaín, R. 1984. Clasificación de las formaciones vegetales de Cuba. Revista Jard. Bot. Nac. Univ. Habana 5(2): 27-75. [publicación seriada]

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

IPNI. 2024+. International Plant Names Index. The Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew; Harvard University Herbaria & Libraries and Australian National Herbarium. http://www.ipni.org [página web]

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. La Habana. [trabajo inédito en repositorio]

Oviedo, R. & González-Oliva, L. 2022. Checklist of Invasive Plants in Cuba - 2022. IUCN/SSC Cuban Plant Specialist Group & GBIF.org. https://doi.org/10.15468/q56c5c [base de datos]

POWO. 2024+. Plants of the World Online. Kew Royal Botanic Gardens. https://powo.science.kew.org [página web]

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