Presentation

The Revista de Climatología (ISSN 1578-8768) is an independent international scientific journal, free for both readers and authors, born in 2001 to spread out research articles on any field of Climatology (Agroclimatology, Bioclimatology, Climate Change, Climate System, Paleoclimatology, Synoptic Climatology, etc).

The Journal currently accepts original manuscripts in Spanish or English. (Iniciated as a Spanish only journal, it became bilingual in 2007).

Editorial Board

Dr. José A. Guijarro (Editor). State Meteorological Agency (AEMet), D.T. at Balearic Islands, Spain. (jaguijarro[AT]inm.es).

Dr. Cesar Azorin-Molina. The Fundación Centro de Estudios Ambientales del Mediterráneo (CEAM), Spain. (cazorin[AT]ceam.es).

Dr. Joan Cuxart, Grup de Meteorologia, Universitat de les Illes Balears, Spain. (joan.cuxart[AT]uib.cat)

Dr. Elisabeth Simelton, Sustainability Research Institute, University of Leeds, U.K. (E.S.Simelton[AT]leeds.ac.uk)

[* The Editorial Board is open to scientists from all the World willing to collaborate on this climate science Journal].

Guidelines for authors

Manuscript submission

Original unpublished research articles, not being submitted to another journal at the same time, should be sent by e-mail to the journal address (reclim[AT]ono.com) to begin the peer-review process of acceptance.

Text, figures and reference style

Manuscripts are preferably to be sent as a single PDF file (see the FAQ), including tables and figures in their most suitable position (normally, after citation on the text). This document will be used for the reviewing process. The paper must be structured into the following sections:

• Title
• Author name(s)
• Affiliation of the author(s) and contact details (e-mail at least)
• Abstract and keywords
• Sections and subsections of the manuscript
• Acknowledgements (optional)
• References. Alphabetically referred, using the standard journal name's abbreviations, and following these example styles:
  1. Articles in journals:
     Gayà M (2005): Tornados en España (1987-2005): distribución temporal y espacial. Rev. Climatol., 5:9-17.
  2. Articles in proceedings:
     Livingston RL, Shaefer JT (1993): County-by-county data on strong and violent tornadoes. Preprints of the 17th Conference on Severe Local Storms, St. Louis Amer. Meteor. Soc., pp. 6-9.
  3. Books:
     Simpson JE (1994): Sea breeze and local winds. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge.
  4. Chapters in books:
     Defant F (1951): Local winds. In Compendium of Meteorology (TF. Malone, Ed.), Amer. Meteor. Soc., pp. 655-672.

All references must be cited in the text by the contributor's name and year of publication within brackets. E.g.: Associated strong winds were reported by Doswell (2001) and other authors (Shaefer and Livingston, 1993; Romero et al., 2005). Coincident cites will be distinguished by appending a letter (low cap.) to the year of publication: Lyons and Olsson (1972a and 1972b).

Evaluation and revision

The manuscript will be reviewed by two referees. The reviewers will express an evaluation about the scientific quality of the research paper and give some useful comments. Revisions are usually required before the final publication. The authors should carefully consider the referee's comments and answer in detail to the points raised. The revised manuscript must be again submitted, by email, to the Editor. The manuscript will not be processed for publication until conforming to the referees suggestions.

Final compilation

Upon acceptance of the paper, the final compilation will be done by means of the LaTeX processing system. Should the authors had prepared a LaTeX version of the article, that would be the most suitable way of accelerating the final publication. Otherwise, the editor may take the text and figures from the PDF file, possibly asking the authors to provide illustrations in separate files or assistance in the preparation of tables or formulas.

Once compiled, the article will be sent to the contributors for its final revision (grammar or printing errors) and acceptance. Publication will be done immediately after this last agreement.

Copyright

The copyright belongs to the authors, who implicitly allow its reproduction by any means as long as no financial interest is involved. The responsibility for opinions expressed and material in manuscripts rests with the contributors.

For further information and queries, do not hesitate to contact the Editor either at jaguijarro[AT]inm.es or reclim[AT]ono.com.

We look forward to welcoming your valuable research papers in the field of Climatology.

Sincerely,

José A. Guijarro
(Head Editor)

Frequently Asked Questions

• Do I need any commercial software to submit my contribution in PDF format?

  Not at all. Many free programs can produce those documents, as Cute-PDF for Windows or many others for Linux. If you do not have any of those programs you can submit a PostScript version of your document by printing to a file using a PostScript printer. (The editor will readily convert this PostScript to PDF using the utility 'ps2pdf').

• I put a link to a published article and now it is broken!

  Due to the zero budget of this project, the location of the published articles may change with time. Therefore, it is more advisable to link the base page, where updated links to the articles are maintained.

• How can I collaborate with this project?

  In the first place you can consider the possibility of submitting your original climatology works to this journal, and/or make publicity of it. For a greater collaboration you could join the Editorial Board.