XML requirements for
CSP's NRC Research Press journals

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Article XML Requirements

• ■ Journal Metadata

▼ Article Objects▲

ID Syntaxes

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File-Naming Conventions

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Full-text Examples

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DTD

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Article object

Footnotes and notes on the article, the authors, in tables, or in text

Element or context:

<fn> (<author-notes>, <table-wrap-foot>, <p>)

Requirements:

A. Notes that apply to the article as a whole, such as a dedication (see Example A)

1. Put the text within <p> inside <author-notes> (see the example)
2. Set @content-type on <p> to "article-note"

B. Footnotes on the article title (see Example B)

1. Treat as a note on the article as a whole (per section A, above)

C. Footnotes on authors (see Example C)

1. Put the footnote within <author-notes><fn>, with @fn-type="meta". Give the footnote a unique ID of the form "afn{some number}"
2. Within <fn>, use a <label> element to contain <sup> tags and a symbol, using the following ordera; *, †, ‡, §, ∥, ¶ **, ††, ‡‡, §§, ∥∥(see the example)
3. Within <contrib>, use <xref> to link to the footnote and use @ref-type="fn" and include <sup> tags with the symbol that corresponds to <fn><label>

D. Table footnotes and notes (see Example D)

1. Put table footnotes in <table-wrap-foot>
2. Give the footnote a unique id of the form "tab{some number}fn{some number}", where the number after 'tab' corresponds to the id of the parent <table-wrap>
3. Set attribute 'fn-type' to "table-fn"
4. Use a <label> element to contain the linking symbol within <sup> tags; linking symbols may be either lowercase, italic letters OR symbols in the following order: *, †, ‡, §, ∥, ¶ **, ††, ‡‡, §§, ∥∥, etc.

E. Footnotes anywhere in the text (see Example E)

1. Link the callout to a footnote with a <xref> element
2. Put the footnote itself within a <fn> element at the bottom of the <p> in which the callout to the footnote appears
3. Give the footnote a unique id of the form "fn{some number}"
4. Set attribute 'fn-type' to "text-fn"
5. Use a <label> element to contain the linking symbol within <sup> tags; linking symbols for text footnotes should be arabic numbers

Example A: A note on the article as a whole, such as a dedication

<author-notes>
  <title>Notes</title>
  <p content-type="article-note">We dedicate this article to our mothers.</p>
</author-notes>
  

Example B: A footnote on the article title

 <article-title>Ubiquitin in regulation of spindle apparatus 
  and its positioning: implications in development and disease
</article-title>
...
<author-notes><title>Notes</title>
<p content-type="article-note">This article is part
of a special issue on Lactoferrin and has undergone the usual peer
review process.</p>
<p content-type="article-note">We dedicate this article to our mothers.</p>
...
</author-notes>

Example C: A footnote on an author

<contrib...<xref ref-type="fn" rid="afn2"><sup>*</sup></xref></contrib>
...
<author-notes><title>Notes</title>
<fn id="afn2" fn-type="meta"><label><sup>*</sup></label><p>Deceased.</p></fn>
...
</author-notes>
  

Example D: Table footnotes

<table-wrap-foot>
    <p content-type="table-note"><bold>Note:</bold> <italic>R</italic><sup>2</sup>, coefficient of determination.</p>
    <fn id="tab1fn1" fn-type="table-fn"><label><italic><sup>a</sup></italic></label><p>AMGT from average of the manual measurements.</p></fn>
    <fn id="tab1fn2" fn-type="table-fn"><label><italic><sup>b</sup></italic></label><p>AMGT estimated using method outlined in text.</p></fn>
</table-wrap-foot>
   

Example E: Footnotes anywhere in the text

<sec>
  <title>Zombies</title>
  <p>Zombie ipsum reversus ab viral inferno, nam rick grimes malum cerebro. De carne lumbering animata corpora quaeritis. Summus brains sit??, morbo vel maleficia? De apocalypsi gorger omero undead survivor dictum mauris. Hi mindless mortuis soulless creaturas.
  Viral inferno<xref ref-type="text-fn" rid="fn1"><sup>1</sup></xref>, nam rick grimes malum cerebro. De carne lumbering animata corpora quaeritis. Summus brains sit??, morbo vel maleficia? De apocalypsi gorger omero undead survivor dictum mauris. Hi mindless mortuis soulless creaturas.
  Summus brains sit??, morbo vel maleficia? De apocalypsi gorger omero undead survivor dictum mauris. Hi mindless mortuis soulless creaturas.
  <fn id="fn1" fn-type="text-fn"><label><sup>1</sup></label><p>No zombies were harmed in the course of our experiement.</p></fn>
  </p>
</sec>