<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
xsi:noNamespaceSchemaLocation No Namespace Schema Location

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="1.2">
<front>
<journal-meta>
<journal-id journal-id-type="pmc">BMJ</journal-id>
<journal-id journal-id-type="pubmed">BMJ</journal-id>
<journal-id journal-id-type="publisher">BR MED J</journal-id>
<journal-title-group>
<abbrev-journal-title>BR MED J</abbrev-journal-title>
</journal-title-group>
<issn>0959-8138</issn>
<publisher>
<publisher-name>British Medical Journal</publisher-name>
</publisher>
</journal-meta>
<article-meta>
<article-id pub-id-type="pmid">10092260</article-id>
<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 Williams</given-names></name>
<role>research physiotherapist</role>
<xref ref-type="aff" rid="StLuke"/></contrib>
<contrib contrib-type="author">
<name><surname>Young</surname>
<given-names>John G.</given-names></name>
<role>consultant physician</role>
<xref ref-type="aff" rid="StLuke"/>
</contrib>
<contrib contrib-type="author">
<name><surname>Langhorne</surname>
<given-names>Peter Parker ("Spider")</given-names></name>
<role>senior lecturer</role>
<xref ref-type="aff" rid="StLuke"/>
</contrib-group>
<aff id="StLuke">...</aff>
<author-notes>
<fn fn-type="con">
<p>Contributors: AF planned and initiated the
review, ...</p>
</fn>
<fn><p>Correspondence to: Dr Forster
<email>a.forster@leeds.ac.uk</email></p>
</fn>
</author-notes>
<pub-date publication-format="print" date-type="pub" iso-8601-date="1999-03-27">
<day>27</day><month>03</month><year>1999</year></pub-date>
<volume>318</volume>
<issue>7187</issue>
<fpage>837</fpage><lpage>841</lpage>
<history>
<date date-type="accepted" iso-8601-date="1999-01-29">
<day>29</day><month>01</month>
<year>1999</year></date>
</history>
<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="1.2"
  article-type="article"
  specific-use="migrated">
<front>...</front>
<body>...</body>
<back>...</back>
</article>
<article
  article-type="iso-standard" dtd-version="1.2"
  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="1.2"
  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="1.2"
  specific-use="migrated"
  xml:lang="en">
<front>...</front>
<body>...</body>
<back>...</back>
</article>

Journal Archiving and Interchange Tag Library NISO JATS Version 1.2 (ANSI/NISO Z39.96-2019)

Version of May 2019

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