<trans-title>

Translated Title

Title of a document or document part that has been translated into a language other than that of the original publication. When a document is published simultaneously in more than one language, one language must be chosen for the title and all other document titles become translated titles.

Remarks

Best Practice: Within the article metadata, a grouping element (<trans-title-group>) has been added to keep related <trans-title>s and <trans-subtitle>s together. Best practice is now to place the language attribute (@xml:lang) on the container element <trans-title-group> rather than on the <trans-title> or the <trans-subtitle> elements. In bibliographic references — which do not allow <trans-title-group> — the @xml:lang attribute should be included on the <trans-title> element (and the translated subtitle subsumed within this title).
In Citations:
Cited Journals: Within a bibliographic reference (<element-citation> or <mixed-citation>), the <trans-title> element contains the title of a cited article, but with the article title given in a different language than used with the <article-title> element. For example, if an article is originally in French, the <article-title> element would contain the French title, and the <trans-title> element might contain, for example, the equivalent English title, both identified with @xml:lang. The journal name or title would be tagged as a <source> and the translated journal title tagged as a <trans-source> element.
Cited Books: Within a bibliographic reference (<element-citation> or <mixed-citation>), translated book titles are tagged with the <trans-source> element.
Cited Subtitles: Within bibliographic references (<element-citation> and <mixed-citation>), translated subtitles should be tagged as part of the translated title (<trans-title>).
Historical Note: This element (<trans-title>) was significantly remodeled from previous versions of this Tag Set. The current NISO JATS values are backward compatible with the last NLM version, but not with earlier versions. Specifically, in prior versions, the <trans-title> element was allowed outside the (new) <trans-title-group> container element.

Related Elements

There are several elements concerned with the title of an article, all contained within the container element <title-group> in the article metadata:
  • The <article-title> is the full title of the article in the original language of the document.
  • The <subtitle> is a subordinate or auxiliary title that adds information to the full title or modifies the full title.
  • The <alt-title> is another version of an article title, usually created so that the title can be processed in a distinct way, for example, a short version of the title for use in a Table of Contents, an ASCII title, or a version of the title to be used in the right-running-head.
  • The <trans-title-group> is also a container element, inside the <title-group>, that holds together a translated title (<trans-title>) and its translated subtitle (<trans-subtitle>). The translated title is a version of the title translated into a language other than the original language of publication, and the matching subtitle is a version of the subtitle translated into a language other than the original language.

Attributes

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

Content Model

<!ELEMENT  trans-title  (#PCDATA %trans-title-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 | break)*

Description

Any combination of:

This element may be contained in:

<element-citation>, <mixed-citation>, <nlm-citation>, <product>, <related-article>, <related-object>, <trans-title-group>

Example 1

In article metadata:
<article dtd-version="1.2">
<front>
<journal-meta>...</journal-meta>
<article-meta>
<article-id pub-id-type="publisher-id">0002792-200209170-00001</article-id>
<article-categories>
<subj-group>
<subject>Editorial</subject>
</subj-group>
</article-categories>
<title-group>
<article-title>Quebec's Bill 114</article-title>
<trans-title-group  xml:lang="fr">
<trans-title>La Loi 114 du Qu&eacute;bec</trans-title>
</trans-title-group>
</title-group>
<pub-date publication-format="print" date-type="pub" iso-8601-date="2001-01-02">
<day>02</day>
<month>01</month>
<year>2001</year>
</pub-date>
...
<permissions>
<copyright-statement>Copyright &#x00A9; 2001, The Canadian Medical
Association</copyright-statement>
</permissions>
<abstract>
<p>When 51-year-old Claude Dufresne, experiencing his second myocardial
infarction, arrived ...</p>
</abstract>
<trans-abstract xml:lang="fr">
<p>Claude Dufresne, 51 ans, en proie &agrave; son deuxi&egrave;me
infarctus du myocarde, est arriv&eacute; trop tard de six minutes
&agrave; l&apos;urgence du Centre hospitalier du Centre-de-la-Mauricie,
h&ocirc;pital de 142 lits de Shawinigan- Sud. Les portes de
l&apos;urgence &eacute;taient en effet ferm&eacute;es pour la nuit,
parce qu&apos;aucun des 60 m&eacute;decins de famille ou internistes
de l&apos;h&ocirc;pital n&apos;&eacute;tait disponible pour assurer
le service. M. Dufresne est d&eacute;c&eacute;d&eacute; en chemin
vers la salle d&apos;urgence ouverte la plus pr&egrave;s, &agrave;
quelque 30 minutes de l&agrave;.</p>
</trans-abstract>
</article-meta>
</front>
<body>...</body>
<back>...</back>
</article>

Example 2

In an element-style bibliographic citation (punctuation and spacing removed):
...
<ref>
<element-citation publication-type="journal" publication-format="print">
<person-group>
<name><surname>Pinet</surname>
<given-names>LM</given-names></name>
<aff>Departamento de Servicios de Salud de
Emergencia, Escuela de Posgrado, Universidad
de Maryland, Condado de Baltimore, USA.
<email>lpinetl@umbc.edu</email>
</aff>
</person-group>
<trans-title xml:lang="en">Prehospital emergency
care in Mexico City: the opportunities of the
healthcare system</trans-title>
<source>Salud Publica Mex</source>
<year iso-8601-date="2005-01">2005</year>
<month>Jan-Feb</month>
<volume>47</volume>
<issue>1</issue>
<fpage>64</fpage>
<lpage>71</lpage>
<comment>Spanish</comment>
</element-citation>
</ref>
...

Example 3

In a mixed-style bibliographic citation (punctuation and spacing preserved):
...
<ref>
<mixed-citation publication-type="journal" publication-format="print">
<string-name><surname>Pinet</surname>,
<given-names>LM</given-names></string-name> (Departamento
de Servicios de Salud de Emergencia, Escuela de Posgrado,
Universidad de Maryland, Condado de Baltimore, USA.
<email>lpinetl@umbc.edu</email>).
[<trans-title xml:lang="en">Prehospital emergency care
in Mexico City: the opportunities of the healthcare
system</trans-title>]. <source>Salud Publica Mex</source>.
<year iso-8601-date="2005-01">2005</year> <month>Jan-Feb</month>;
<volume>47</volume>(<issue>1</issue>):<fpage>64</fpage>-<lpage>71</lpage>.
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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