<article>

Article

A journal article.

Remarks

Usage: This element can be used to describe not only typical journal articles (research articles) but also much of the non-article content within a journal, such as book and product reviews, editorials, commentaries, and news summaries.
Related Essay: For a discussion on tagging book reviews and similar articles, see Tagging Book or Product Reviews. For a discussion on the tagging of letters and responses in an article, see Tagging Letters and Replies. For a discussion on the use of <sub-article>s within a main article, see Tagging Sub-articles.

Related Elements

A journal article <article> may be divided into several components:
  1. the <front> (the metadata or header information, which contains both journal metadata [<journal-meta>] and article metadata [<article-meta>]);
  2. the <body> (the textual and graphical content of the article);
  3. any <back> (any ancillary information such as a glossary, reference list, or appendix);
  4. a <floats-group> (single container element some publishers and archives use to hold all floating elements such as figures and tables that are referenced in the article body or back matter); and
  5. either a series of <response> elements or a series of <sub-article> elements. (A <response> is a commentary on the article itself, such as a summation by an editor, an answer to a letter-article, or words from the author responding to peer-review comments. Sub-articles are articles such as news pieces, abstracts, or committee reports that are completely contained within a main article.)

Attributes

article-type Type of Article
dtd-version Version of the Tag Set (DTD)
id Document Internal Identifier
specific-use Specific Use
xml:base Base
xml:lang Language
xmlns:ali NISO ALI Namespace (NISO Access License and Indicators)
xmlns:mml MathML Namespace Declaration
xmlns:xlink XLink Namespace Declaration
xmlns:xsi XML Schema Namespace Declaration

Content Model

<!ELEMENT  article      %article-full-model;                         >

Expanded Content Model

(front, body?, back?, floats-group?, (sub-article* | response*))

Description

The following, in order:

This top-level element may not be contained in any other elements.

Example 1

A typical article with front matter, a body, and back matter:
    
<article dtd-version="1.1">
<front>
<article-meta>
<title-group>
<article-title>Systematic review of day hospital care
for elderly people</article-title>
</title-group>
<contrib-group>
<contrib contrib-type="author">
<name><surname>Forster</surname>
<given-names>Anne</given-names></name>
<role>research physiotherapist</role>
<aff>Department of Health Care for the Elderly,
St Luke&#x2019;s Hospital, Bradford BD5 0NA</aff>
<author-comment>
<p>Competing interests: None declared.</p>
...
</author-comment>
</contrib>
...
</contrib-group>
<permissions>
<copyright-statement>Copyright &#x00A9; 1999, British Medical
Journal</copyright-statement>
<copyright-year>1999</copyright-year>
</permissions>
<abstract>...</abstract>
</article-meta>
</front>
<body>...</body>
<back>...</back>
</article>

Example 2

Some realistic article attributes:
    
<article
  xmlns:mml="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML"
  xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink"
  dtd-version="1.1"
  article-type="article"
  specific-use="migrated">
<front>...</front>
<body>...</body>
<back>...</back>
</article>

   
    
<article
  article-type="iso-standard"
  dtd-version="1.1"
  specific-use="export-for-online"
  xmlns:mml="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML"
  xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink"
  xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance">
<front>...</front>
<body>...</body>
<back>...</back>
</article>

   
    
<article
  xmlns:mml="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML"
  xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink"
  xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"
  article-type="publisher-note"
  dtd-version="1.1"
  specific-use="production"
  xml:lang="en">
<front>...</front>
<body>...</body>
<back>...</back>
</article>

   
    
<article
  xmlns:mml="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML"
  xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink"
  xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"
  article-type="article"
  dtd-version="1.1"
  specific-use="migrated"
  xml:lang="en">
<front>...</front>
<body>...</body>
<back>...</back>
</article>

Journal Archiving and Interchange Tag Library NISO JATS Version 1.1 (ANSI/NISO Z39.96-2015)

Version of December 2015

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