The proceedings of the scientific presentations of ELAETAO 2 will be published as a special issue of the peer -reviewed journal, Caribbean Journal of Science. Manuscripts to be considered for publication in the special issue should be submitted as a hard-copy and electronic format (CD or diskette) at the time of registration. All manuscripts should be written in English. Translation help would be provided for meritorious scientific contributions that otherwise could only be written in Spanish.
Please use the following guidelines for manuscript preparation.
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, 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
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.
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