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equal-contrib Equal Contribution

Indicates whether or not all contributors contributed equally.

Usage/Remarks

If the contributor (marked with this attribute) contributed equally with all other contributors, this attribute should be set to “yes”; if his/her contribution was greater or lesser, then this attribute should be set to “no”.
OPTIONAL on element: <contrib>
Value Meaning
no This contributor did not participate equally with all other contributors.
yes This contributor participated equally with all other contributors.
Restriction @equal-contrib is an optional attribute; there is no default.
Tagged Sample

Flagging an author’s contribution to the article (as different from her co-author)

...
<contrib-group>
 <contrib contrib-type="author">
  <name><surname initials="L">Lawrence</surname>
   <given-names initials="SP">Sharon Peniston</given-names>
  </name></contrib>
 <contrib contrib-type="author" equal-contrib="no">
  <name><surname initials="M">Miller</surname>
   <given-names initials="DB">Donna Bunch</given-names>
  </name></contrib>
</contrib-group>
...