The NLM Article Authoring Tag Set is now being maintained as part of the NISO JATS project. Please see jats.nlm.nih.gov/articleauthoring/ for the most current information.
Introduction
The Article Authoring Tag Set creates a standardized format for new journal articles that can be used by authors to submit publications to journals and to archives such as PubMed Central. While in theory the document scope is the same as for the Publishing Tag Set, in practice Authoring defines elements and attributes that describe the content of typical research-style journal articles.
This is a Tag Set optimized for authorship of new journal articles, where regularization and control of content is important, and where it is useful rather than harmful to have only one way to tag a structure. Therefore Authoring is more prescriptive than descriptive and includes many elements whose content must occur in a specified order.
Since an author is assumed to be creating and submitting an article for submission to a journal or journals, no publishing history or journal-specific information has been included in this Authoring Tag Set.
Since no assumptions can be made concerning the processing software or editorial situation that will receive an article authored in this Tag Set, tagging that forces specific formatting has also been avoided. There is no way for an author to number his/her lists explicitly, for example, or to manually number the cited references, since many journals have their own citation policies and publication styles. Numbers for the cited references must be generated by the publisher’s software to match editorial policy and established practice.
Documentation
The complete documentation for each version of this Tag Set is available in the Tag Library. The structure and suggested usage of the Tag Library is described in the How to Use (Read Me First) section. Please see the individual version's page for access to the appropriate Tag Library.
A Frequently Asked Questions page is available.
Getting the Files
All of the Tag Set files are available by anonymous FTP: https://public.nlm.nih.gov/projects/jats/nlm-dtd/article_authoring/.
Each schema is also available through the web at stable URIs which are listed on the individual version's page.
Versions
Please see the JATS Article Authoring Tag Set page for the current Tag Set version information.
The previous Tag Set versions are still available:
- Version 3.0: https://jats.nlm.nih.gov/nlm-dtd/articleauthoring/3.0/
- Version 2.3: https://jats.nlm.nih.gov/nlm-dtd/articleauthoring/2.3/
- Version 2.2: https://jats.nlm.nih.gov/nlm-dtd/articleauthoring/2.2/
- Version 2.1: https://jats.nlm.nih.gov/nlm-dtd/articleauthoring/2.1/
Version 2.1 was the first release of the Article Authoring DTD. Because it was based on Version 2.1 of the Archive and Interchange Tag Suite, its version number is also 2.1.
Related Tag Sets
The Archiving Tag Set, created from the Tag Suite, is less prescriptive than the Publishing Tag Set. It enables archives to capture but structural and semantic components and does not enforce any particular sequence or textual format.
The Journal Publishing Tag Set, created from the Tag Suite, is more prescriptive than the Archiving Tag Set. It is optimized for use by publishers and archives interested in regularizing their data.
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National Center for Biotechnology Information Last updated: September 17, 2012 |
