Article metadata
<article>
Element or context:
/ {the root element}
Notes
Article XML files should declare the UTF-8 character encoding, and special characters above the ASCII set should be represented with Unicode hexidecimal entities.
Values for @article-type are not necessarily equivalent to the paper type. Please see the chart below for which value of @article-type to use with each paper type. For paper type tagging requirements, see Article paper types
Requirements:
Set the attributes on the root element <article> as follows:
- xml:lang — Required. Use values 'en' for English or 'fr' for French
- xmlns:mml — Fixed value "http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML"
- xmlns:xlink — Fixed value "http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink"
- article-type — Required. The table below indicates which value for @article-type to use for each paper type
Paper type
Value for attribute 'article-type' on <article>
Research Article
research-article
Comment
editorial
Communication
note
Correction
correction
Editorial
editorial
Note
note
Perspective
note
Publisher's message
front-matter
Reply
reply
Retraction
retraction
Review Article
review-article
Science Applications Forum
editorial