sec-type

Type of Section

Type of semantic content included in the section (for example, “materials”, “conclusions”).

Remarks

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"”.)

Used on Element: <sec>

ValueMeaning
Text, numbers, or special charactersNames the main semantic type of section content, such as “conclusions”. This attribute is most useful when a list of values is maintained and articles are tagged accordingly.
Restriction@sec-type is an optional attribute; there is no default.

Suggested usage

Recommended section type values are:
cases
Cases/Case Reports
conclusions
Conclusions/Comment
discussion
Discussion/Interpretation
intro
Introduction/Synopsis
materials
Materials
methods
Methods/Methodology/Procedures
results
Results/Statement of Findings
subjects
Subjects/Participants/Patients
supplementary-material
Supplementary materials

Example

...  
<sec sec-type="methods">
<title>Methods</title>
<p>The primary question addressed was ...</p>
</sec>  
...