<on-behalf-of>

On Behalf of

When a contributor is acting as a representative of an organization, he/she is said to have written or edited a work “on behalf of” that organization or group, and this element holds the name of the organization or group.

Remarks

The contributor writing on-behalf-of may also have a separate, different affiliation. For example, a physician affiliated with Johns Hopkins Hospital writing for the National Cancer Institute would be tagged as:
<on-behalf-of>National Cancer Institute</on-behalf-of>
and the physician’s affiliation would be tagged as usual as:
<aff>Johns Hopkins Hospital</aff>
The <on-behalf-of> element is akin to a “role” the person is playing with respect to the organization. Thus, this element joins the related element <role> as a way to describe the particular contribution of a contributor. The <role> element will say that a person is an “Editor” or “Associate Editor”, and the <on-behalf-of> element will state that this editing was undertaken as a representative of a group or organization, typically capturing all text associated with the organization (see “for” in the example below):
<contrib>
    <name>
      <surname>Smith</surname>
      <given-names>J.D.</given-names>
    </name>
    <on-behalf-of>for the Cardiac Research Group</on-behalf-of>
  </contrib>
Conversion Note: Some Tag Sets identify what this Tag Set calls “on-behalf-of” content as a Collaborative (Group) Author or Editor <collab>. In other tag sets, the association “on-behalf-of” may be tagged as a <role> rather than as a specific <on-behalf-of>. It is therefore also acceptable (although not best practice) to tag the example as:
<contrib>
    <name>
      <surname>Smith</surname>
      <given-names>J.D.</given-names>
    </name>
    <role>for the Cardiac Research Group</role>
  </contrib>

Related Elements

See discussion about <role> in Remarks.

Attributes

id Document Internal Identifier
specific-use Specific Use
xml:base Base
xml:lang Language

Content Model

<!ELEMENT  on-behalf-of (#PCDATA %on-behalf-of-elements;)*           >

Expanded Content Model

(#PCDATA | bold | fixed-case | italic | monospace | overline | roman | sans-serif | sc | strike | underline | ruby | sub | sup | named-content | styled-content | institution | institution-wrap | fn | target | xref)*

Description

Any combination of:

This element may be contained in:

<collab>, <contrib>, <contrib-group>

Example 

...
<article-meta>
...
<contrib-group>
<contrib contrib-type="author">
<name><surname>Forster</surname>
<given-names>Anne</given-names></name>
<on-behalf-of>for the Multiple Sclerosis Collaborative
Research Group</on-behalf-of>
<role>research physiotherapist</role>
<xref ref-type="aff" rid="StLukes">
<sup><italic>a</italic></sup></xref>
</contrib>
</contrib-group>
<aff id="StLukes">
<sup><italic>a</italic></sup>Department of Health
Care for the Elderly, St Luke&#x2019;s Hospital,
Bradford BD5 0NA</aff>
...
</article-meta>
...

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

Version of May 2019

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