Journal Publishing Tag Library NISO JATS Draft Version 1.1d2

<volume-issue-group>

Volume Issue Grouping

A grouping element to hold related volume and issue elements

Remarks

In most journals, there is a single volume number and a single issue number. This element handles the rare cases where an article has been published as part of more than one volume/issue pair. This element keeps related volume and issue information together, and is allowed to repeat to describe multiple volumes.

Attributes

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

Content Model

<!ELEMENT  volume-issue-group
                        %volume-issue-group-model;                   >

Expanded Content Model

(volume*, volume-id*, volume-series?, issue*, issue-id*, issue-title*, issue-sponsor*, issue-part?)

Description

The following, in order:

This element may be contained in:

<article-meta>, <front-stub>

Example 1

As part of article metadata for a journal with both a regular publication volume number and a second volume number (differentiated by a @content-type attribute) identifying the volume from the beginning of the publication of a series or other parallel numbering scheme: 
...
<front>
<journal-meta>
...
<journal-title-group>
<journal-title>The Hospital</journal-title>
<journal-subtitle>A Journal of The Medical Sciences 
and Hospital Administration</journal-subtitle>
</journal-title-group>
...
</journal-meta>
<article-meta>
<title-group>...</title-group>
<pub-date iso-8601-date="1907-04-06">
<day>6</day><month>April</month><year>1907</year>
</pub-date>
<volume-issue-group content-type="new-series">
<volume>1</volume>
<issue>1</issue>
</volume-issue-group>
<volume-issue-group content-type="publication">
<volume>XLII</volume>
<issue>1073</issue>
</volume-issue-group>
...
</article-meta>
</front>
...

Example 2

As part of article metadata for a journal publishing two consecutive volumes as a single publication: 
...
<article-meta>
<article-id pub-id-type="doi">10.2307/40784090</article-id>
<title-group>
<article-title>They Were Hard to Kill, Those Places</article-title>
</title-group>
<contrib-group>...</contrib-group>
<pub-date iso-8601-date="2006">
<season>Spring</season><year>2006</year>
</pub-date>
<volume>51/52</volume>
<volume-issue-group>
<volume>51</volume>
<issue>4</issue>
</volume-issue-group>
<volume-issue-group>
<volume>52</volume>
<issue>1</issue>
</volume-issue-group>
<fpage>156</fpage>
<self-uri xlink:href="https://www.jstor.org/stable/40784090">
http://www.jstor.org/stable/40784090</self-uri>
</article-meta>
...

Journal Publishing Tag Library NISO JATS Draft Version 1.1d2

Version of December 2014

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