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 a recent CJS issues for other details about format and style. All manuscripts are written in English.
Information for Authors
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.
The cover has the title, authors’ names, postal addresses, and email address of the
corresponding author only.
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.
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.
Main headings (Introduction, Materials and Methods, etc.) 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
Tables should be submitted as spreadsheet-compatible files (e.g., Excel). They 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.