<response>

Response

Reply, response, or commentary concerning the journal article. In the typical case, the response is included in the same XML package as the original article, attached at the end of the article proper. Metadata that differs from that of the original article (for example, title, author), may be captured using the <front-stub> element; if the <front-stub> element is used, any metadata not specifically tagged is inherited from the original article.

Remarks

Related Essay: For a discussion on the use of <response>, see Tagging Letters and Replies.
Usage: Frequently, a reply or response is an article in its own right, not included as part of the original article. Such an article could use the <related-article> element in the article metadata to record the metadata for the original article.
The response construction can also be used for the pathological case, rarely seen, in which several responses to an article are lumped together into a single container that is not the original article, merely a collection of responses. (In one example we examined, the first two responses were to an original article that was elsewhere, and the third response was a response to the first two responses.)

Related Elements

A journal article <article> may be divided into several components:
  1. the <front> (the metadata or header information, which contains both journal metadata [<journal-meta>] and article metadata [<article-meta>]);
  2. the <body> (the textual and graphical content of the article);
  3. any <back> (any ancillary information such as a glossary, reference list, or appendix);
  4. a <floats-group> (single container element some publishers and archives use to hold all floating elements such as figures and tables that are referenced in the article body or back matter); and
  5. either a series of <response> elements or a series of <sub-article> elements. (A <response> is a commentary on the article itself, such as a summation by an editor, an answer to a letter-article, or words from the author responding to peer-review comments. Sub-articles are articles such as news pieces, abstracts, or committee reports that are completely contained within a main article.)

Attributes

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

Content Model

<!ELEMENT  response     %article-short-model;                        >

Expanded Content Model

((front | front-stub), body?, back?, floats-group?)

Description

The following, in order:

This element may be contained in:

<article>, <sub-article>

Example 

<article dtd-version="1.2">
<front>
<journal-meta>
<journal-id journal-id-type="publisher">JCM</journal-id>
<issn>0095-1137</issn>
<publisher><publisher-name>JCM</publisher-name></publisher>
</journal-meta>
<article-meta>
<article-id pub-id-type="pmid">0547</article-id>
<article-categories>
<subj-group><subject>Letter to the Editor</subject></subj-group>
</article-categories>
<title-group>
<article-title><italic>Acrophialophora fusispora</italic> Misidentified 
as <italic>Scedosporium prolificans</italic></article-title>
</title-group>
<contrib-group>
<contrib contrib-type="author">
<name><surname>Guarro&ast;</surname>
<given-names>Josep</given-names></name>
<xref ref-type="aff"><sup><italic>a</italic></sup></xref>
</contrib>
<contrib contrib-type="author">
<name><surname>Gen&eacute;</surname>
<given-names>Josepa</given-names></name>
<xref ref-type="aff"><sup><italic>a</italic></sup></xref>
</contrib>
</contrib-group>
<aff>...</aff>
<pub-date publication-format="print" date-type="pub" iso-8601-date="2002">
<year>2002</year></pub-date>
<volume>40</volume><issue>9</issue>
<fpage>42</fpage><lpage>43</lpage>
<permissions>
<copyright-statement>Copyright &#x00A9; 2002, British Medical Journal</copyright-statement>
<copyright-year>2002</copyright-year>
</permissions>
</article-meta>
</front>
<body>
<sec>
<title>Comment Letter 1</title>
<p>Arthur et al. reported an interesting case of human keratouveitis associated 
with the intraocular long-term retention of a contact lens, ...</p>
</sec>
</body>
<back>
<ref-list>...</ref-list>
</back>
  
<response response-type="reply">
<front>
<journal-meta>...</journal-meta>
<article-meta>
<article-id>mul356</article-id>
<title-group>
<article-title>Comment Letter 2</article-title>
</title-group>
<contrib-group>
<contrib contrib-type="author">
<name><surname>Sigler&ast;</surname>
<given-names>Lynne</given-names></name>
<xref ref-type="aff"><sup><italic>a</italic></sup></xref>
</contrib>
<contrib contrib-type="author">
<name><surname>Sutton</surname>
<given-names>Deanna A.</given-names></name>
<xref ref-type="aff"><sup><italic>b</italic></sup></xref>
</contrib>
</contrib-group>
<aff>...</aff>
...
</article-meta>
</front>
<body>
<p>We are writing concerning the identification of the fungus causing
keratouveitis ...</p>
</body>
<back>
<ref-list>...</ref-list>
</back>
</response>

<response response-type="reply">
<front>
<journal-meta>...</journal-meta>
<article-meta>
<article-id>mul987</article-id>
<title-group>
<article-title>Authors&apos; Reply</article-title>
</title-group>
<contrib-group>
<contrib contrib-type="author">
<name><surname>Arthur&ast;</surname>
<given-names>Stella</given-names></name>
<xref ref-type="aff"><sup><italic>a</italic></sup></xref>
</contrib>
<contrib contrib-type="author">
<name><surname>Steed</surname>
<given-names>Lisa L.</given-names></name>
<xref ref-type="aff"><sup><italic>a</italic></sup></xref>
</contrib>
</contrib-group>
<aff>...</aff>
...
</article-meta>
</front>
<body>
<p>We read with great interest and much chagrin the letters to the editor by
Drs. Sigler and Sutton and Drs. Guarro and Gene correcting our misidentification
of <italic>Acrophialophora fusispora</italic> ...</p>
...
</body>
<back>
<ref-list>...</ref-list>
</back>
</response>
</article>

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

Version of May 2019

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