Journal Archiving and Interchange Tag Library NISO JATS Draft Version 1.1d2

pub-type

Type of Publication

Deprecated: On the element %lt;pub-date>, in the Archiving and Publishing Tag Sets, this @pub-type attribute is deprecated in favor of the @publication-format and @date-type attributes. In all Tag Sets, on the element <issn>, this @pub-type attribute is deprecated in favor of the @publication-format attribute (possibly with the @content-type attribute). Using two attributes enables the expression of both the format/medium and the lifecycle type of the publication instead of forcing the selection of one or the other.
Definition: Deprecated pre-combination of the format/medium of a document with one or more events from its lifecycle, for example, “epub” for publication in an electronic format or “ppub” for publication in print.

Usage

The pre-combination of format, medium, and event in one attribute is a holdover from previous versions of this Tag Set. In this version of this Tag Set, there are two attributes that can be used to describe the history dates and publication dates of articles. The @date-type attribute records the type of event in the lifecycle, such as “accepted”, “published”, or “revised” dates. In addition, the @publication-format attribute records the type of format or media to which the event happened, such as “print”. In previous versions of this Tag Set, the two types of information were combined, so an attribute could say that an article was “ecorrected”, meaning that the article was in electronic form and that it was corrected. In this Tag Set, the attribute @date-type would take the value “corrected” and the @publication-format attribute would take the value “electronic” to convey the same information.

With these Elements

<issn>
<pub-date>
Value Meaning
Text, numbers, or special characters The type of print or electronic publication, for example, “epub” for electronic publication.
Restriction: @pub-type is an optional attribute; there is no default.

Suggested usage

Historical Note: In this version of this Tag Set, the @publication-format attribute states the format/medium and the @date-type attribute names the lifecycle event. For previous versions of this Tag Set, the information on type of lifecycle date and format/media to which the event happened were combined in this attribute. A content creator may choose to keep this information combined, even in this Tag Set, and use the following values (which blend the type and format and are therefore no longer recommended) for this attribute:

epub
Electronic publication (usually web, but also includes eBook, CD-ROM, or other electronic-only distribution)

ppub
Print publication

epub-ppub
Both print and electronic publications

epreprint
Electronic preprint dissemination

ppreprint
Print preprint dissemination

ecorrected
Corrected in electronic

pcorrected
Corrected in print

eretracted
Retracted in electronic

pretracted
Retracted in print

Journal Archiving and Interchange Tag Library NISO JATS Draft Version 1.1d2

Version of December 2014

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