The Journal Article Tag Suite defines elements and attributes that describe metadata and full content of scholarly journal articles. The Suite is not designed to describe magazines, books, or other publishing formats. While some structures in these formats may be similar to structures in journal articles, other structures may be distinctly different and may not be handled by existing elements and attributes defined in the Tag Suite.
The Tag Suite is the complete set of elements and attributes described in the standard. Along with these descriptions, the standard includes three article models or Tag Sets:
The Journal Archive and Interchange Tag Set
The Journal Publishing Tag Set
The Article Authoring Tag Set
The Tag Suite has been designed to be extensible. Any of the tag sets may be extended or restricted to meet the needs of a given project. Also, new tag sets can be built from the elements and attributes in the Tag Suite and should be considered conforming to the standard:
There are a number of items that have not been included in this standard.
Schemas that represent the three tag sets. The schemas (available in DTD, W3C Schema, and RELAX NG syntax) are included in the non-normative supporting information and can be found on the JATS site at the National Library of Medicine (http://jats.nlm.nih.gov).
Detailed Usage Information. The NLM DTDs were supported by extensive usage information in the Tag Libraries. These Tag Libraries are still being produced to support the three JATS tag sets. However, to simplify the updating process, these are included in the non-normative supporting information at the NLM JATS site:
Journal Archive and Interchange Tag Library (http://jats.nlm.nih.gov/archiving/tag-library/0.4/index.html)
Journal Publishing Tag Library (http://jats.nlm.nih.gov/publishing/tag-library/0.4/index.html)
Article Authoring Library (http://jats.nlm.nih.gov/articleauthoring/tag-library/0.4/index.html)
Tagging examples are included in the three Tag Libraries listed above.
Details on MathML, XHTML™ tables, and OASIS CALS tables are described in other standards. Specific instructions for their use should be gotten from the original standards referenced below in Section 4 References.
The Journal Archive and Interchange Tag Set provides a format in which publishers can deliver content to a wide range of archives, and into which archives can translate content from many publishers.
In addition to preserving the article metadata and content, this tag set intends to preserve observed content such as labels, numbers, symbols, and punctuation within bibliographic references.
The Journal Publishing Tag Set provides a more prescriptive format than the archiving format does. It is designed to provide a regularized data format that aids in web and print production. To achieve this goal, the Publishing Tag Set prescribes element sequences more often than the Archive and Interchange Tag Set, and does not offer as many options for tagging similar structures.