Container element for floating objects (figures, tables, text boxes, graphics, etc.) that occur within an article. Occurs outside of the narrative flow of the article.
Some publishers like to collect all these floating objects at the end rather than interspersing them throughout the document where they are referenced. The <floats-group> element is not part of the narrative flow of an article; rather, it holds article resources used in the body, back matter, etc. Sub-articles (<sub-article>) and responses (<response>) may hold their own floats groups.
A journal article <article> may be divided into several components:
Historical Note: This element (<floats-group>) was significantly remodeled from previous versions of this Tag Set. The current NISO JATS values are backwards compatible with the last NLM version, but not with earlier versions. Specifically, the <floats-group> element replaces the <floats-wrap> element, which is no longer available.
<!ELEMENT floats-group %floats-group-model; >
(alternatives | boxed-text | chem-struct-wrap | code | fig | fig-group | graphic | media | preformat | supplementary-material | table-wrap | table-wrap-group)*
Any combination of:
...
</back>
<floats-group>
<fig id="pbiog001" position="float">
<label>Figure 1</label>
<caption>
<title>Overview of Our Approach for Mapping the
<named-content content-type="genus-species">E. coli</named-content>
Transcriptional Regulatory Network</title>
<p>Microarray expression profiles were obtained ...</p>
</caption>
<graphic xlink:href="pbio.0050008.g001"/>
</fig>
<fig id="pbiog002" position="float">
<label>Figure 2</label>
<caption>
<title>The CLR Algorithm: Methods and Comparison to Other
Approaches</title>
<p>(A) A schema of the CLR algorithm. ...</p>
...
</caption>
<graphic xlink:href="pbio.0050008.g002"/>
</fig>
<fig id="pbiog003" position="float">
<label>Figure 3</label>
<caption>
<title>The Transcriptional Regulatory Map Inferred by CLR with
an Estimated 60% Precision</title>
<p>The precision of the network is obtained by measuring the percentage
of correctly inferred edges (blue lines) ...</p>
</caption>
<graphic xlink:href="pbio.0050008.g003"/>
</fig>
...
<table-wrap id="pbiot001" content-type="1col" position="float">
<label>Table 1</label>
<caption>
<p>Data Sources for the
<named-content content-type="genus-species">Escherichia
coli</named-content> Microarray Compendium</p>
</caption>
<graphic xlink:href="pbio.0050008.t001"/>
</table-wrap>
</floats-group>
</article>
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