<front>
Front Matter
Container element for the metadata of an article and the journal in which it was
published.
Remarks
In some journal tag sets, this information is called the “header information” or “journal header”. Such a header usually includes the metadata concerning the journal itself (in this Tag Set tagged as <journal-meta>), as well as metadata concerning the issue of the journal and the individual article (which in this Tag Set are both found in the element <article-meta>).
Content Model
<!ELEMENT front %front-model; >
Expanded Content Model
(journal-meta, article-meta, (notes)?)
Description
The following, in order:
This element may be contained in:
Example
<article dtd-version="1.2d2">
<front>
<journal-meta>
<journal-id journal-id-type="pmc">BMJ</journal-id>
<journal-id journal-id-type="pubmed">BMJ</journal-id>
<journal-id journal-id-type="publisher">BR MED J</journal-id>
<journal-title-group>
<abbrev-journal-title>BR MED J</abbrev-journal-title>
</journal-title-group>
<issn>0959-8138</issn>
<publisher>
<publisher-name>British Medical Journal</publisher-name>
</publisher>
</journal-meta>
<article-meta>
<article-id pub-id-type="pmid">10092260</article-id>
<title-group><article-title>Systematic review of day hospital care for elderly
people</article-title>
</title-group>
<contrib-group>
<contrib contrib-type="author">
<name><surname>Forster</surname>
<given-names>Anne Williams</given-names></name>
<role>research physiotherapist</role>
<xref ref-type="aff" rid="StLuke"/></contrib>
<contrib contrib-type="author">
<name><surname>Young</surname>
<given-names>John G.</given-names></name>
<role>consultant physician</role>
<xref ref-type="aff" rid="StLuke"/>
</contrib>
<contrib contrib-type="author">
<name><surname>Langhorne</surname>
<given-names>Peter Parker ("Spider")</given-names></name>
<role>senior lecturer</role>
<xref ref-type="aff" rid="StLuke"/>
<author-comment><p>on behalf of the Day Hospital Group</p>
</author-comment></contrib>
</contrib-group>
<aff id="StLuke">...</aff>
<author-notes>
<fn fn-type="con">
<p>Contributors: AF planned and initiated the
review, ...</p>
</fn>
<fn><p>Correspondence to: Dr Forster
<email>a.forster@leeds.ac.uk</email></p>
</fn>
</author-notes>
<pub-date publication-format="print" date-type="pub" iso-8601-date="1999-03-27">
<day>27</day><month>03</month><year>1999</year></pub-date>
<volume>318</volume>
<issue>7187</issue>
<fpage>837</fpage><lpage>841</lpage>
<history>
<date date-type="accepted" iso-8601-date="1999-01-29">
<day>29</day><month>01</month>
<year>1999</year></date>
</history>
<permissions>
<copyright-statement>Copyright © 1999, British Medical
Journal</copyright-statement>
<copyright-year>1999</copyright-year>
</permissions>
<abstract>...</abstract>
</article-meta>
</front>
<body>...</body>
<back>...</back>
</article>