<author-comment>
Author Comment
Textual material associated with a contributor.
Remarks
Common Practice: Although a typical author comment might explain, for example, some facts about the circumstances under which a contributor wrote the article material, during conversion the <author-comment> element can also act as an escape mechanism to take the content of any contributor-related elements not anticipated by the Suite.
Attributes
Content Model
<!ELEMENT author-comment
%author-comment-model; >Expanded Content Model
(title?, (p)+)
This element may be contained in:
Example 1
General note describing related material placed in an author comment:
...
<contrib-group>
<contrib contrib-type="editor">
<name><surname>Pollard</surname>
<given-names>Thomas D.</given-names></name>
<author-comment>
<p>This essay constitutes the second article in the
“Genome Annotation Series” initiated by
Thomas D. Pollard, Essay Editor. The first essay, by
J.S. Berg, B.C. Powell, and R.E. Cheney, appeared in
the April 2001 issue of <italic>Molecular Biology of the
Cell</italic> (Vol. 12, Issue 4, pp 780–794).</p>
</author-comment>
</contrib>
<contrib contrib-type="author">
<name><surname>Boehm</surname>
<given-names>Markus</given-names></name>
<aff>Cell Biology and Metabolism Branch, National Institute
of Child Health and Human Development, National Institutes
of Health, Bethesda, Maryland, 20892</aff>
</contrib>
...
</contrib-group>
...
Example 2
A <contrib> with an <author-comment> because there is no affiliation:
...
<contrib contrib-type="author">
<name>
<surname>Crutchley</surname>
<given-names>Alison Claire</given-names>
</name>
<author-comment>
<p>Independent scholar</p>
</author-comment>
</contrib>
...