Type of semantic content included in the section (for example, “materials”, “conclusions”).
Best Practice: This attribute is typically provided as part of conversion when the semantic information is explicit in the source documents. Although designed to accept any text as its value, for best practice, this attribute should be used only if the section is one of the types listed below and should otherwise be omitted. This is a way to provide information classing to structural sections, for searching and grouping purposes.
A section that contains content of more than one type should have the type IDs combined. (For example, “Materials and Methods” would be tagged “type="materials|methods"”).
| Value | Meaning |
|---|---|
| Text, numbers, or special characters | Names the main semantic type of section content, such as an “Introduction”. This attribute is most useful when a list of values is maintained and books are tagged accordingly. |
| Restriction: | |
While this attribute may take any value, the JATS recommended section type values for articles, which might also be useful for books until best practice is known, are:
cases | Cases/Case Reports |
conclusions | Conclusions/Comment |
discussion | Discussion/Interpretation |
intro | Introduction/Synopsis |
leaning-objectives | Learning Objectives or points to study |
materials | Materials |
methods | Methods/Methodology/Procedures |
results | Results/Statement of Findings |
subjects | Subjects/Participants/Patients |
supplementary-material | Supplementary materials |