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"”).

Attribute Values

In Element

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ValueMeaning
Text, numbers, or special charactersNames the main semantic type of section content, such as “conclusions”. This attribute is most useful when a list of values is maintained and articles are tagged accordingly.
Restriction: This 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

materials

Materials

methods

Methods/Methodology/Procedures

results

Results/Statement of Findings

subjects

Subjects/Participants/Patients

supplementary-material

Supplementary materials