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

ref-type

Type of Cross-Reference

Type of element that is the target of the cross-reference (for example, “figure”, “author-note”, “bibliographic-reference”). The values may be used for type-specific processing or validation.

Remarks

The <xref> element may be used to reference anything that has an @id attribute. This single element takes the place of the many named types of references (such as figure references, table references, and footnote references) that are common in many journal tag sets. This attribute preserves the information from such tag sets concerning the type of element to which the cross-reference is pointing.

With the Element

<xref>
Value Meaning
Text, numbers, or special characters The element to which the reference points, for example, “fig” to indicate that the reference points to a figure (<fig>).
Restriction: @ref-type is an optional attribute; there is no default.

Suggested usage

Although designed to accept any text as its value, potential values for this attribute might include:

aff
Affiliation

app
Appendix

author-note
Author notes

bibr
Bibliographic reference (typically to a <ref> element, but it may point to a <element-citation> or <mixed-citation> if there are multiple citations inside the <ref> element).

boxed-text
Textbox or sidebar

chem
Chemical structure (to a <chem-struct> or <chem-struct-wrap> element)

collab
Collaboration

contrib
Contributor

corresp
Corresponding author

disp-formula
Display formula

fig
Figure or group of figures (to a <fig> or <fig-group> element)

fn
Footnote

kwd
Keyword

list
List or list item (to a <list> or <list-item> element; also, possibly to a <def-list> or <def-item> element)

plate
Plate

scheme
Scheme

sec
Section

statement
Statement

supplementary-material
Supplementary information

table
Table or group of tables (to a <table-wrap> or <table-wrap-group> element)

table-fn
Table footnote

Example 


...
<p>... The third nucleotide (CG<bold>A</bold>) at codon 529, which
is a specific nucleotide of <italic>M. tuberculosis</italic>
(<xref ref-type="bibr" rid="B8">8</xref>, <xref ref-type="bibr"
rid="B11">11</xref>), was not clearly determined ...</p>
...

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

Version of December 2014

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