<issue>

Issue Number

Issue number of a journal, or in rare instances, a book.

Remarks

Issue Metadata: Some journal tag sets identify three types of article metadata: that concerning the specific article, that concerning the journal, and that concerning the issue of the journal that contains the article. In this Tag Set, the metadata for the issue and the article has been placed together inside the <article-meta>. In the article metadata, the <issue> is the issue number of the issue in which the article appears.
In Citations: The <issue> element is also used in bibliographic references (<element-citation> and <mixed-citation>) where it indicates the issue in which the cited material was published.
In Joint Issues: If an article was published in a joint issue “Iss. 2-3”, both issue numbers should be placed into a single <issue> element: <issue>1-2</issue>.
Multiple Issue Numbers: The element issue number (<issue>) is allowed to repeat, to handle the rare circumstance in which a publisher has both an issue number within a volume and an issue sequence number (not volume related) within the run of the publication. In such cases, the attribute @content-type should be used to differentiate the two types of issues.
In this example, from an 1971 issue of the Bristol Medico-Chirurgical Journal, the “Vol.” was given as “86”, the issue was given as “i”, and the “No.” as “317”. (See Cover: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5076125/pdf/brmedchirj69728-0001-cov.pdf. The article metadata was recorded as follows:
...
<front>
<journal-meta>
<journal-title-group>
<journal-title>Bristol Medico-Chirurgical Journal</journal-title>
</journal-title-group>
</journal-meta>
<article-meta>
...
<pub-date publication-format="print" date-type="pub" iso-8601-date="1971-01">
<month>1</month><year>1971</year></pub-date>
<volume>86</volume>
<issue content-type="volume">1</issue>
<issue content-type="publication">317</issue>
</article-meta>
</front>
...
In this example, from the Journal of Medical Research in 1902, the Vol. was given as “VIII”, the “No.” as “2”, and the “Whole No.” as “70”. (See Cover: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2105865/pdf/jmedres00125-0003.pdf and Article: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2105865/.) The article metadata was recorded as follows:
...
<front>
<journal-meta>
<journal-title-group>
<journal-title>The Journal of Medical Research</journal-title>
</journal-title-group>
</journal-meta>
<article-meta>
...
<contrib-group>...</contrib-group>
<pub-date publication-format="print" date-type="pub" iso-8601-date="1902-11">
<month>11</month><year>1902</year></pub-date>
<volume>8</volume>
<volume content-type="new-series">3</volume>
<issue content-type="volume">2</issue>
<issue content-type="publication">70</issue>
<fpage>309</fpage>
<lpage>315</lpage>
</article-meta>
</front>
...

Related Elements

The related element <issue-id> records an identifier for the issue. This <issue> number element is typically just a simple number such as “4” or “35”.

Attributes

content-type Type of Content
id Document Internal Identifier
seq Sequence
specific-use Specific Use
xml:base Base
xml:lang Language

Content Model

<!ELEMENT  issue        (#PCDATA %issue-elements;)*                  >

Expanded Content Model

(#PCDATA | email | ext-link | uri | inline-supplementary-material | related-article | related-object | hr | bold | fixed-case | italic | monospace | overline | overline-start | overline-end | roman | sans-serif | sc | strike | underline | underline-start | underline-end | ruby | alternatives | inline-graphic | inline-media | private-char | chem-struct | inline-formula | tex-math | mml:math | abbrev | index-term | index-term-range-end | milestone-end | milestone-start | named-content | styled-content | fn | target | xref | sub | sup | x)*

Description

Any combination of:

This element may be contained in:

<article-meta>, <element-citation>, <front-stub>, <mixed-citation>, <nlm-citation>, <product>, <related-article>, <related-object>, <volume-issue-group>

Example 1

In article metadata:
...
<article-meta>
...  
<volume>1540</volume>
<issue>1</issue>
<isbn content-type="conf-proc">978-0-7354-1164-7</isbn>
<fpage seq="1">113</fpage>
<lpage>124</lpage>
</article-meta>
...
...
<article-meta>
<article-id pub-id-type="pmid">...</article-id>
<title-group>...</title-group>
<contrib-group>...</contrib-group>
<aff id="StLukes">...</aff>
<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="2001-01-29">
<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>
<copyright-holder>British Medical Journal</copyright-holder>
</permissions>
<abstract>
<p>To examine the effectiveness of day hospital
attendance in prolonging independent living for
elderly people.</p>
</abstract>
</article-meta>
...

Example 2

In an element-style bibliographic reference (punctuation and spacing removed):
...
<ref>
<element-citation publication-type="journal" publication-format="print">
<name><surname>Llanos De La Torre Quiralte</surname>
<given-names>M</given-names></name>
<name><surname>Garijo Ayestaran</surname>
<given-names>M</given-names></name>
<name><surname>Poch Olive</surname>
<given-names>ML</given-names></name>
<article-title xml:lang="es">Evolucion de la mortalidad
infantil de La Rioja (1980-1998)</article-title>
<trans-title xml:lang="en">Evolution of the infant
mortality rate in la Rioja in Spain
(1980-1998)</trans-title>
<source>An Esp Pediatr</source>
<year iso-8601-date="2001-11">2001</year>
<month>Nov</month>
<volume>55</volume>
<issue>5</issue>
<fpage>413</fpage>
<lpage>420</lpage>
<comment>Figura 3, Tendencia de mortalidad infantil
[Figure 3, Trends in infant mortality]; p. 418.
Spanish</comment>
</element-citation>
</ref>
...

Example 3

In a mixed-style bibliographic reference (punctuation and spacing preserved):
...
<ref>
<mixed-citation publication-type="journal" publication-format="print">
<string-name><surname>Llanos De La Torre Quiralte</surname>
<given-names>M</given-names></string-name>,
<string-name><surname>Garijo Ayestaran</surname>
<given-names>M</given-names></string-name>,
<string-name><surname>Poch Olive</surname>
<given-names>ML</given-names></string-name>.
<article-title xml:lang="es">Evolucion de la mortalidad
infantil de La Rioja (1980-1998)</article-title>
[<trans-title xml:lang="en">Evolution of the infant
mortality rate in la Rioja in Spain (1980-1998)</trans-title>].
<source>An Esp Pediatr</source>. <year iso-8601-date="2001-11">2001</year>
<month>Nov</month>;<volume>55</volume>(<issue>5</issue>):
<fpage>413</fpage>-<lpage>420</lpage>. Figura 3, Tendencia
de mortalidad infantil [Figure 3, Trends in infant
mortality]; p. 418. Spanish.</mixed-citation>
</ref>
...

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

Version of May 2019

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