<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)+)

Description

The following, in order:

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
&#x201C;Genome Annotation Series&#x201D; 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&#x2013;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>
...