<contrib-group>
Contributor Group
Container element for one or more contributors and information about those contributors.
Remarks
Use of Contributor Group: Inside the element <article-meta>, the <contrib-group> element holds individual contributors to a document
such as authors, researchers, or photographers. Inside the element <journal-meta>, the <contrib-group>
element holds contributors to the whole journal or at least above the level of an article, such as section
editors, journal editors, or special issue editors.
Contributor groups may name primary authors, editors, sponsors, translators, illustrators, etc. The members of the group are contributors who worked individually, not as a group. The @content-type attribute should be used to name the type of contributor in the group, “authors”, “editors”, “translators”, etc.
If issue contributors (as opposed to contributors to a particular article), are part of the metadata for an article, they should be listed in a separate <contrib-group> with a @content-type attribute value such as “issue-editors”, typically inside the <journal-meta>.
Naming the Role of Contributors: The @content-type attribute on <contrib-group> was designed to name the role of the contributors in the group and was also designed to accept any text as its value. However, if the @content-type value is to be taken from a controlled vocabulary, such as CRediT, Best Practice is not to name the role using @content-type. Best Practice (when possible) is to tag the CRediT contributor role taxonomy terms by using the <role> element inside the <contrib-group> or inside individual contributors (<contrib>). The major advantages of using the <role> element are the ability to tie the content of the role to the formal vocabulary using the four JATS vocabulary attributes and the ability for a contributor or group to play more than one role in the creation of an article.
Attributes
Content Model
<!ELEMENT contrib-group %contrib-group-model; >
Expanded Content Model
(contrib | address | aff | aff-alternatives | author-comment | bio | email | etal | ext-link | fn | on-behalf-of | role | uri | xref | x)+
Description
One or more of any of:
- <contrib> Contributor
- <address> Address/Contact Information
- <aff> Affiliation
- <aff-alternatives> Affiliation Alternatives
- <author-comment> Author Comment
- <bio> Biography
- Linking Elements
- <etal> Et Al.
- <fn> Footnote
- <on-behalf-of> On Behalf of
- <role> Role or Function Title of Contributor
- <xref> X (cross) Reference
- <x> X - Generated Text and Punctuation
This element may be contained in:
Example 1
A <contrib-group> element with a single author:
...
<contrib-group>
<contrib contrib-type="author">
<name name-style="western">
<surname>Foster</surname>
<given-names>Bill</given-names>
<prefix>Rep.</prefix>
</name>
<role>(IL-14)</role>
</contrib>
</contrib-group>
...
Example 2
A <contrib-group> element with a single author and his affiliation:
...
<contrib-group>
<contrib contrib-type="author">
<name name-style="western">
<surname>Nüsslin</surname>
<given-names>Fridtjof</given-names>
<prefix>Dr.</prefix>
</name>
</contrib>
<aff>Klinik für Strahlentherapie und Radiologische Onkologie,
<institution>Technische Universität München</institution>,
Munich, Germany (Tel: 49-89-41404517, E-mail:
<ext-link ext-link-type="email" xlink:href="mailto:nuesslin@lrz.tum.de">
nuesslin@lrz.tum.de</ext-link>)</aff>
</contrib-group>
...
Example 3
A <contrib-group> element with a single editor:
...
<contrib-group content-type="conference-editors">
<contrib contrib-type="editor">
<name name-style="western">
<surname>Herrera</surname>
<given-names>Gerardo</given-names>
</name>
<role>Conference Editor</role>
</contrib>
</contrib-group>
...
Example 4
A <contrib-group> element with several authors:
...
<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="StLukes"/>
<xref ref-type="aff" rid="RoyalInf"/>
</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="RoyalInf"/>
</contrib>
<aff id="StLukes">Department of Health Care for the
Elderly, St Luke’s Hospital, Bradford BD5 0NA</aff>
<aff id="RoyalInf">Academic Section of Geriatric
Medicine, Royal Infirmary, Glasgow G4 0SF</aff>
</contrib-group>
...
Example 5
Three contributors with alternative names:
...
<article-meta>
...
<contrib-group>
<contrib contrib-type="author">
<name-alternatives>
<name name-style="western"><surname>Zhang</surname>
<given-names>Y. P.</given-names></name>
<string-name name-style="eastern" xml:lang="zh">张轶泼</string-name>
</name-alternatives>
<xref ref-type="aff" rid="a1">1</xref>
<xref ref-type="author-notes" rid="n1">a)</xref>
</contrib>
<contrib contrib-type="author">
<name-alternatives>
<name name-style="western"><surname>Isobe</surname>
<given-names>M.</given-names></name>
<string-name name-style="eastern" xml:lang="zh">磯部光孝</string-name>
</name-alternatives>
<xref ref-type="aff" rid="a2">2</xref>
</contrib>
<contrib contrib-type="author">
<name-alternatives>
<name name-style="western"><surname>Liu</surname>
<given-names>Yi</given-names></name>
<string-name name-style="eastern" xml:lang="zh">刘仪</string-name>
</name-alternatives>
<xref ref-type="aff" rid="a1">1</xref>
</contrib>
</contrib-group>
<aff id="a1">...</aff>
<aff id="a2">...</aff>
<author-notes id="n1">...</author-notes>
...
</article-meta>
...