<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 Elements

A journal article <article> may be divided into three parts:
  1. the <front> (the metadata or header information for the article, such as the title and the published date);
  2. the <body> (textual and graphical content of the article); and
  3. any <back> (ancillary information such as a glossary, reference list, or appendix).

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

Content Model

<!ELEMENT  article      %article-short-model;                        >

Expanded Content Model

(front, body, back?)

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="1.1">
<front>
<article-meta>
<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</given-names></name>
<role>research physiotherapist</role>
<aff>Department of Health Care for the Elderly,
St Luke&#x2019;s Hospital, Bradford BD5 0NA</aff>
<author-comment>
<p>Competing interests: None declared.</p>
...
</author-comment>
</contrib>
...
</contrib-group>
<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="1.1"
  article-type="article"
  specific-use="migrated">
<front>...</front>
<body>...</body>
<back>...</back>
</article>



<article
  article-type="iso-standard"
  dtd-version="1.1"
  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="1.1"
  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="1.1"
  specific-use="migrated"
  xml:lang="en">
<front>...</front>
<body>...</body>
<back>...</back>
</article>

Article Authoring Tag Library NISO JATS Version 1.1 (ANSI/NISO Z39.96-2015)

Version of December 2015

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