Article metadata
Author footnotes
Element or context:
<author-notes>, <fn>
Requirements:
N.B. The following requirements are for footnotes on authors only.
- For notes on the article see article notes (inc. dedications)
- For footnotes in the text, see footnotes, text
- For footnotes in tables, see tables: footnotes
- Contain the footnote for an author in <author-notes>
- Contain the word "Notes" within <title> inside <author-notes> (see the example)
- Give the footnote a unique id of the form "afn{some number}"
- Set attribute 'fn-type' to "author-fn"
- Use a <label> element to contain the linking symbol within <sup> tags; symbols should be used in the following order: *, †, ‡, §, ∥, ¶ **, ††, ‡‡, §§, ∥∥, etc.
- Link the author to the footnote using <xref> within <contrib> (see Authors)
Example
<author-notes>
<title>Notes</title>
<p content-type="article-note">This article is part of a special compilation entitiled "Otherwordly creatures", and has undergone the journal's usual peer-review process.</p> <fn id="afn1" fn-type="author-fn"><label>*</label><p>Deceased.</p></fn> <fn id="afn2" fn-type="author-fn"><label>†</label><p>Present address: Department of Foreign Affairs, Havana, Cuba.</p></fn>
</author-notes>