<elocation-id>

Electronic Location Identifier

Bibliographic identifier for a document that does not have traditional printed page numbers.

Remarks

This element acts in the same way as a page identifier for a document that does not have traditional page numbers; the value could be an article identifier, publisher’s number, etc., for example, “E70”.
External Assigned Identifier: This element holds an externally assigned identifier, assigned to an article by a publisher, an archive, or library to help cite an article that is born digital and will never have page numbers. The contents of this element should not be confused with the @id attribute, which holds an internal document identifier that can be used by software to preform a simple link.

Related Elements

A number of elements in the Suite relate to page numbers:
  • <fpage> names the page number on which a work begins;
  • <lpage> names the page number on which a work ends (which should be the same page number or a number larger than the starting page number);
  • <elocation-id> replaces the start and end page elements just described for electronic-only publications;
  • <page-range> records discontinuous page ranges; and
  • <page-count> holds the total page count, if the publisher has provided one. Typically this element records what the publisher said and makes no validity claim. The element <page-count> should be used only in metadata. The citation elements (<element-citation> or <mixed-citation>) use the element <size> to tag the total page count of a cited work. (Historical Note: The deprecated <nlm-citation> element still uses the <page-count> element.)
Best Practice: The <page-range> is intended to record supplementary information and should not be used in the place of the <fpage> and <lpage> elements, which are typically needed for citation matching. The <page-range> element is merely a text string, containing such material as “8-11, 14-19, 40”, which would mean that the work began on page 8, ran through 11, skipped to page 14, ran through 19, and concluded on page 40.

Attributes

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

Content Model

<!ELEMENT  elocation-id (#PCDATA)                                    >

Description

Text, numbers, or special characters

This element may be contained in:

<article-meta>, <element-citation>, <front-stub>, <mixed-citation>, <product>, <related-article>, <related-object>

Example 1

Used in the metadata of an article, concerning the article:
...
<article-meta>
...
<pub-date publication-format="print" date-type="pub" iso-8601-date="2002-08-28">
<day>28</day>
<month>08</month>
<year>2002</year>
</pub-date>
<volume>2</volume>
<elocation-id>E27</elocation-id>
<history>
<date date-type="accepted" iso-8601-date="2002-08-22">
<day>22</day>
<month>08</month>
<year>2002</year>
</date>
</history>
...
</article-meta>
...

Example 2

Identifier for an RNA sequence sample, used inside a citation:
...
<ref>
<mixed-citation publication-type="data">Xu, J. <etal/> 
<data-title>Cross-platform ultradeep transcriptomic profiling 
of human reference RNA samples by RNA-Seq</data-title>. 
<source>Sci. Data</source> <volume>1</volume>:<elocation-id>140020</elocation-id>.  
doi: <pub-id pub-id-type="doi">10.1038/sdata.2014.20</pub-id> 
(<year iso-8601-date="2014">2014</year>).</mixed-citation>
</ref>
...

Journal Publishing Tag Library NISO JATS Version 1.2 (ANSI/NISO Z39.96-2019)

Version of May 2019

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