<event-desc>
Event Description
This is a description of an event in the publication history of an article, for example, reprinting or publishing a revised online edition. This text field may be as simple
a few words or as complex as a narrative with embedded markup.
Content Model
<!ELEMENT event-desc (#PCDATA %event-desc-elements;)* >
Expanded Content Model
(#PCDATA | email | ext-link | uri | article-id | issn | issn-l | isbn | article-version | article-version-alternatives | date | pub-date | pub-date-not-available)*
Description
Any combination of:
- Text, numbers, or special characters
- Linking Elements
- <article-id> Article Identifier
- <issn> ISSN
- <issn-l> ISSN-L (Linking ISSN)
- <isbn> ISBN
- <article-version> Article Current Version Status or Number
- <article-version-alternatives> Article Current Version Alternatives
- <date> Date
- <pub-date> Publication Date
- <pub-date-not-available> Publication Date Not Available Flag
This element may be contained in:
Example 1
... <article-meta> ... <pub-history> <event event-type="received"> <event-desc>Received: <date date-type="received" iso-8601-date="2017-09-12"> <day>12</day><month>September</month><year>2017</year></date></event-desc> </event> <event event-type="accepted"> <event-desc>Accepted: <date date-type="accepted" iso-8601-date="2018-05-26"> <day>26</day><month>May</month><year>2018</year></date></event-desc> </event> <event event-type="pub"> <event-desc>Accepted Manuscript published: <pub-date date-type="pub" iso-8601-date="2018-05-30"> <day>30</day><month>May</month><year>2018</year></pub-date> (version 1)</event-desc> </event> <event event-type="pub"> <event-desc>Version of Record published: <pub-date date-type="pub" iso-8601-date="2018-06-13"> <day>13</day><month>June</month><year>2018</year></pub-date> (version 2)</event-desc> </event> </pub-history> </article-meta>...
Example 2
A more detailed event description:
...
<article-meta>
...
<pub-history>
<event event-type="revision">
<event-desc>The first version of this article was
enhanced considerably between versions of the XML
instance. These changes can be seen <ext-link
ext-link-type="uri"
xlink:href="https://elifesciences.org/content/5/e00666v3">
here</ext-link>.</event-desc>
<date date-type="accepted-manuscript-r1"
iso-8601-date="2016-07-29">
<day>29</day><month>07</month>
<year>2016</year>
</date>
<self-uri content-type="accepted-manuscript"
xlink:href="https://elifesciences.org/content/5/e00666v2"/>
</event>
...
</pub-history>
</article-meta>
...