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

sec-type

Type of Section

Type of semantic content included in the section (for example, “materials”, “conclusions”).

Remarks

Best Practice: This attribute is typically provided as part of conversion when the semantic information is explicit in the source documents. Although designed to accept any text as its value, for best practice, this attribute should be used only if the section is one of the types listed below and should otherwise be omitted. This is a way to provide information classing to structural sections, for searching and grouping purposes.
A section that contains content of more than one type should have the type IDs combined. (For example, “Materials and Methods” would be tagged “type="materials|methods"”).

With the Element

<sec>
Value Meaning
Text, numbers, or special characters Names the main semantic type of section content, such as “conclusion”. This attribute is most useful when a list of values is maintained and articles are tagged accordingly.
Restriction: @sec-type is an optional attribute; there is no default.

Suggested usage

Recommended section type values are:

cases
Cases/Case Reports

conclusions
Conclusions/Comment

discussion
Discussion/Interpretation

intro
Introduction/Synopsis/Overview

materials
Materials

methods
Methods/Methodology/Procedures

results
Results/Statement of Findings

subjects
Subjects/Participants/Patients

supplementary-material
Supplementary materials

Example 


...
<sec sec-type="methods">
<title>Methods</title>
<p>The primary question addressed was ...</p>
</sec>
...

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

Version of December 2014

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