Guidelines

Focus and scope

Cuba & Caña is a broad-spectrum journal focused on the field of Sugarcane Agriculture. It is aimed at experts, researchers, teachers and students related to sugarcane science and other related sciences. Its objective is to publish original and unpublished articles of high scientific quality that have not been subjected to simultaneous evaluation processes by other journals, in the following fields of knowledge: Varieties and Seeds, Plant Health, Agronomic Management, Soils and Agrochemistry, Irrigation and Drainage. , Bioinformatics, Mechanization, Biotechnology, and Precision Agriculture. Publish Editorials, Original Articles, Reviews, Short Communications and Technical Notes that present an important contribution. The main language is Spanish, but articles in English are also accepted. The submitted manuscripts must provide original results, rigorously obtained and interpreted, and arrive at well-supported conclusions.

 

Evaluation process

The collaborations received are evaluated by a team of national and international referees and are submitted, by the Editorial Committee, to a rigorous selection method for the works to be published. During the opinion process, the evaluators and the authors preserve anonymity.

The evaluation system is by blind peer arbitration/opposition method. The articles received are distributed by the president of the Editorial Committee, with the participation of two referees per article, who are given models, so that they can make the oppositions where they express their criteria (opinion) and make comments on the quality of said articles, selecting or not the same by the Editorial Committee of the journal in a meeting held for this purpose.

Possible results can be:

  • Accepted
  • Accepted with modifications
  • Rejected

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

In case of suspicion or breach of some of the good ethical practices established in the Code of the journal and other cases of Controversy, the procedure will be as established in the Flow Charts of the Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE) for each case.

The average time between receipt of the papers and the final verdict is 90 days. After being approved, the average number of days between the date of acceptance and the final publication of the article is 7 days.

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 adequate syntax and that reflects the content of the work.
  • Summary/ Abstract: That expresses the objective, methods, main results and conclusions with full correspondence between them.
  • Keywords / Key words: All necessary, standardized and descriptive of the content with correspondence between them.
  • 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 they express the quantity and quality of the materials used, that the methodology used and the experimental conditions are pertinent to the stated objective, and if the statistical analyzes are mentioned and are appropriate.
  • Results and Discussion: That the results are clearly exposed and presented in a logical way 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 of the results with 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 actuality. 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 the compression of the title, abstract and keywords.
  • Dimensions: Parts of the job can be enlarged, reduced or deleted.

To consult the complete arbitration form you can download the PDF file available at the address: form_arbitraje.pdf

 

Copyright Notice

Those authors who have publications with this journal accept the following terms of the CC Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International License (CC BY-NC 4.0) :

You are free to:

  • Share — copy and redistribute the material in any medium or format
  • Adapt — remix, transform, and build on the material

The licensor cannot revoke these freedoms as long as you comply with the terms of the license.

Under the following conditions:

  • Attribution — You must properly acknowledge authorship, provide a link to the license, and indicate if changes have been made. You may do so in any reasonable manner, but not in any manner that suggests that you endorse or receive any endorsement by the licensor for your use.
  • NonCommercial — You may not use the material for any commercial purpose.
  • No additional restrictions — You may not apply legal terms or technological measures that legally restrict you from doing what the license allows.

The journal is not responsible for the opinions and concepts expressed in the works, they are the sole responsibility of the authors. The Editor, with the assistance of the Editorial Committee, reserves the right to suggest or request advisable or necessary modifications. They are accepted to publish original scientific papers, research results of interest that have not been published or sent to another journal for the same purpose.

The mention of trademarks of equipment, instruments or specific materials is for identification purposes, and there is no promotional commitment in relation to them, neither by the authors nor by the publisher.

 

Submission of manuscripts

All contributions should be sent to: journal.cuba.cane@gmail.com with a copy to Dr. Dolores Piñón Gómez (rosariopg55@yahoo.com) and Lic. Jenny Gipsy Pina López (jenny.pina@inica.azcuba. cu).

Only original works, unpublished products of scientific research processes that are not in the process of arbitration in other journals, are accepted.

The information contained in the documents submitted to the journal is the exclusive responsibility of the authors and institutional Scientific Councils or territorial Scientific Commissions.

Along with the document, the author must also submit the Letter of Authorship and the Conflict of Interest Form where it is stated that:

  • FIRST: That I am the author of the article whose title was stated above, and therefore the main person responsible for it.
  • SECOND : The authorship has been declared according to the roles established in the CRediT taxonomy (Contributor Roles Taxonomy) and the Conflict of Interest has been properly determined according to the journal's policies.
  • THIRD: That I authorize the journal to publish it at no cost, by the means or formats that the Editorial Committee determines in accordance with the CC Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International License (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.

 

Types of manuscripts

Cuba & Caña journal is a scientific publication certified by CITMA, which accepts documents written in Spanish and English. These can be Original Articles, Reviews, Short Communications, Technical Notes and Editorials.

  • Original Articles:They report on the results of an investigation that has not been previously published. It must have an extension of no more than 15 pages. Due to their importance, these are prioritized by the journal.
  • Reviews: These are works that summarize and analyze the state of the art of an important scientific topic in scientific literature. They offer a critical evaluation of the subject, and are made at the request of the editorial committee. Its extension will be up to 20 pages.
  • Short Communications: They present the structure of the article but it is recommended to join the results and the discussion in a simple section. The use of tables and graphs must be done in a concise and reasoned way. Due to the scientific contribution, it does not admit delay for its publication.
  • Technical Notes: They must be original and reflect on one page the results of scientific-technological interest.
  • Editorials: They are made up by order of the Editorial Committee with previously established objectives.

 

Form of submission of manuscripts

All manuscripts must be written on letter size paper (8 ½ x 11 inches), justified, with 2.5 cm margins, in Arial font size 11, 1.15 spaces apart, including figure captions and table headings. The numbering will be centered at the end of the page, including the first.

The title : Centered writing, in capital letters in Spanish and English briefly, in no more than 15 words, without acronyms or abbreviations, with the exception of scientific names that will be in italics and capital letters will be placed where appropriate, the rest in lower case. . Example Saccharum spp.

Title example: SUGAR CANE CULTIVARS ( Saccharum spp.) UNDER SALINE STRESS CONDITIONS

 

Content and format of the manuscript

The Original Articles that are sent will consist of the following parts:

  • Title: written in Spanish and English in no more than 15 words
  • Author(s),
  • Institution(s) and email address of the contact author
  • Summary in Spanish and English
  • Keywords in Spanish and English
  • Introduction
  • Materials and methods
  • Results and Discussion
  • Conclusions and recommendations
  • Bibliographic references

The Editorial Committee may accept some modifications to this structure when the content of the text warrants it.

Reviews must include the following parts:

  • Title: in Spanish and English
  • Author(s)
  • Institution(s) where the work was developed and affiliation of the authors
  • Summary in Spanish and English
  • Keywords in Spanish and English
  • Introduction
  • Development of the theme, with the subtitles that are deemed convenient
  • Discussion, when appropriate
  • Conclusions
  • Bibliographic references

Authors

No limit in number, authorship must be presented according to the CRediT taxonomy (Contributor Roles Taxonomy) and must be placed in descending order according to the participation of each one in the work. Those with two names should include them. The first letters of name(s) and surname(s) will be capitalized. The names of the authors will be written in Arial 11 font, separated by a comma, with a space after the title.

Institutional affiliation

To a space of the line of authors, the affiliation of each one is written, indicating it by a superscript unless all the authors belong to a single institution. Each institution must be presented with the full normalized name (and not its abbreviation), in addition to the city, state or province and country.

Electronic address

The electronic address of the author for correspondence on the line following the institutional affiliation.

Summary in Spanish and English

Written in the past tense, in block form and in no more than 250 words, it should allow the reader to quickly and accurately identify the basic content of the work.

Keywords

Include, in alphabetical order, written in Spanish and English, from three to five keywords of the content of the work.

Abbreviations and units

Abbreviations will appear explicit the first time they are mentioned in the text. They can also be grouped after keywords. The International System of Units (SI) will be used.

Numbers

Thousands must be separated by a space. Ex: 100,000. Decimal numbers are separated by commas. Ex.: 0.8 mg L-1. Express simple fractions with the format ½ and scientific notation as 3x105.

Introduction

It must be written in the present. It contains updated information on the subject matter, the purpose, importance and objectives.

Materials and methods

They must be written in the past tense and clearly and precisely express the means and methods used in the work, in a way that allows the reproducibility of the results obtained.

Specify the design of the experiments and mention the computer program used for its processing. In the writing, anglicisms and the misuse of gerunds should be avoided.

Scientific names must appear complete the first time they are cited in the text, then the initial letter of the genus can be written followed by a period and the species. Like the Latin phrases such as: in vitro , they must be written in italics.

Examples: Sporisorium scitamineum (Syd.) M. Piepenbr, M. Stoll and Oberw, S. scitamineum .

Results

The results of the investigation must be written in the past tense, with clarity and precision.

Tables and figures

They will be referred to in the text with consecutive Arabic numerals.

Tables: Place the description of your content at the top.

Figures: Place the description of your content at the bottom. They must be made with good quality and linked to the database, in a way that allows their modification.

Images: These must be original and have a resolution equal to or greater than 600 pixels, in JPG format.

References

APA style is admitted, in its sixth edition (Annex 1)

All sources cited in the text must be listed, according to APA style.

In the case of references from the web, also include the date of consultation and the DOI of the document or other digital identifier, and failing that, the electronic address.

Acknowledgment and Funding

Any important technical help received from anyone, whether in the laboratory or elsewhere, is to be appreciated. Any external financial assistance, such as grants, contracts or scholarships, may also be recognized. They are written in a single paragraph and short at the end of the text of the work.

 

APPENDIX 1

Norms for citation of bibliographical references:

The APA Manual and its regulations use an Author-Date citation system which has been adapted to the peculiarities of the journal Cuba & Caña

Direct and indirect quotes:

These exactly reproduce the material, without changes or additions. The author and year must be indicated.

Examples:

  • When analyzing the results and according to the opinion of Machado (2010): "All the participants..."
  • When analyzing the results of previous studies we found that: “All the participants…” (Machado, 2010)

Other citation guidelines:

  • Two authors: Machado and Rodríguez (2015) affirm… or (Machado and Rodríguez, 2015, )
  • Three or more authors: from the first mention, only the surname of the first is placed, followed by et al.
  • Corporate or institutional author with acronyms or abbreviations: the full name of the organization is placed in the first citation and then the abbreviation can be used. Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC, 2016) and then OPEC (2016), World Health Organization (WHO, 2014) and then WHO (2014).
  • Corporate or institutional author without acronyms or abbreviations: Instituto Cervantes (2012), (Instituto Cervantes, 2012).
  • Two or more works in the same parentheses: they are arranged alphabetically following the order of the reference list: Many studies confirm the results (Martínez, 2012, Portillo, 2014, Rodríguez, 2014 and Zapata, 2015).
  • Secondary sources or quote within a quote: Carlos Portillo (cited in Rodríguez, 2015)
  • Ancient works: ancient and well-known religious texts. (Quran 4:1-3), Luke 3:2 (New Testament). They are not included in the reference list.
  • Personal communications: personal letters, memos, electronic messages, etc. Manuela Álvarez (personal communication, June 4, 2010). They are not included in the reference list.
  • Undated source: placed in parentheses nd Alvarado (nd), Bustamante (nd).
  • Anonymous source: the first words of the title of the cited work are written (Management Report, 2013), Lazarillo de Tormes (2000).
  • Quotes by the same author with the same publication date: in these cases, a suffix is placed to the year of publication to make a difference (Rodríguez, 2015a), (Rodríguez, 2015b). They are arranged alphabetically by title, in the reference list.

Reference list

It is organized alphabetically and indented

  • Book: Surname, AA (Year). Title . City, Country: Publisher
  • Book with publisher: Surname, AA (Ed.). (Year). Title . City, Country: Publisher.
  • Electronic book: Surname, AA (Year). Title . Retrieved from http://www…
  • Electronic book with DOI: Surname, AA (Year). Title . doi: xx
  • Book chapter: only in the cases of compilation books and anthologies where each chapter has a different author and a compiler or editor: Surname, AA, and Surname, BB (Year). Title of the chapter or entry. In AA Surname. (Ed.), Title of the book (pp. xx-xx). City, Country: Publisher.
  • Periodic publications printed format: Surname, AA, Surname, B. B, and Surname, CC (Date). Article title. Journal name , volume (number), pp-pp.
  • Periodical publications with DOI: Surname, AA, Surname, BB and Surname, CC (Date). Article title. Journal name , volume (number), pp-pp. doi: xx
  • Periodic online publications: Surname, AA (Year). Article title. Journal name , volume (number), pp-pp. Retrieved from http:/ /www…
  • Printed newspaper article: Surname AA (Date). Article title. Newspaper name , pp-pp. Or the version without author: Title of the article. (Date). Newspaper name , pp-pp.
  • Online newspaper article: Surname, AA (Date). Article title. Name of the newspaper. Retrieved from http:/ /www…
  • Degree thesis: Author, A. (Year). Title of the thesis (undergraduate, master's or doctoral thesis). Name of the institution, Place.
  • Online degree thesis: Author, A. and Author, A. (Year). Title of the thesis (undergraduate, master's or doctoral thesis). Retrieved from http://www…
  • Reference to web pages: Surname, AA (Date). Page title . Place of publication: Publishing House. Retrieved from http://www…
  • Sources on CDs: Surname, A. (Year of publication). Title of the work (edition) [CD-ROM]. Place of publication: Publishing house.
  • Movies: Producer's Surname, A. (producer) and Director's Surname, A. (director). (Year). Name of the film [film tape]. Country: producer.
  • TV series: Surname of the producer, A. (producer). (Year). Name of the series [TV series]. Place: Producer.
  • Video: Surname of the producer, A. (Producer). (Year). Series name [Source]. Place.
  • Podcast: Surname, A. (Producer). (Date). Title of the podcast [Audio podcast]. Retrieved from htpp://www…
  • Internet forums, list of electronic addresses and other online communities: Author, (Day, Month, Year) Title of the message [Description of the form] Retrieved from htpp://www…