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Front Matter

Definition

The metadata for an article, such as the name and issue of the journal in which the article appears and the author(s) of the article.

Remarks

In some journal DTDs, this information is called the “header information” or “journal header”. Such a header usually includes the metadata concerning the journal itself (in this Suite tagged as <journal-meta>) as well as metadata concerning the issue of the journal and the individual article (which in this Suite are both found in the element <article-meta>).

Related Elements

A journal article <article> is potentially divided into four (more typically, three) parts:

  1. The Front Matter (the article metadata or header information)
  2. The Body of the Article (textual and graphical content of the article)
  3. Any Back Matter (ancillary information such as a glossary or appendix)
  4. Either a series of Response elements (a response is a commentary on the article itself) or a series of Sub-Article elements (sub-articles are smaller articles completely contained within the article)

Model Description

The following, in order:

Tagged Example

<article>
<front>
<journal-meta>
<journal-id journal-id-type="pmc">BMJ</journal-id>
<journal-id journal-id-type="pubmed">BMJ</journal-id>
<journal-id journal-id-type="publisher">BR MED J</journal-id>
<abrev-journal-title>BR MED J</abrev-journal-title>
<issn>0959-8138</issn>
<publisher>
<publisher-name>British Medical Journal</publisher-name>
</publisher>
</journal-meta>
<article-meta>
<article-id pub-id-type="pmid">10092260</article-id>
<article-categories>
<article-title>Systematic review of day hospital care for elderly
people</article-title>
</title-group>
<contrib-group>
<contrib contrib-type="author">
<name><surname>Forster</surname>
<given-names>Anne Williams</given-names></name>
<role>research physiotherapist</role>
<xref ref-type="aff"><sup><italic>a</italic></sup></xref></contrib>
<contrib contrib-type="author">
<name><surname>Young</surname>
<given-names>John G.</given-names></name>
<role>consultant physician</role>
<xref ref-type="aff"><sup><italic>a</italic></sup></xref>
</contrib>
<contrib contrib-type="author">
<name><surname>Langhorne</surname>
<given-names>Peter Parker ("Spider")</given-names></name>
<role>senior lecturer</role>
<xref ref-type="aff"><sup><italic>b</italic></sup></xref>
<author-comment><p>on behalf of the Day Hospital Group</p>
</author-comment></contrib>
</contrib-group>
<aff><sup><italic>a</italic></sup>Department of Health Care
for the Elderly, St Luke&#x2019;s Hospital, Bradford BD5
0NA, <sup><italic>b</italic></sup>Academic Section
of Geriatric Medicine, Royal Infirmary, Glasgow G4 0SF</aff>
<author-notes>
<fn fn-type="con">
<p>Contributors: AF planned and initiated the
review,...</p>
</fn>
<fn><p>Correspondence to: Dr Forster
<email>a.forster@leeds.ac.uk</email></p>
</fn>
</author-notes>
<pub-date pub-type="pub">
<day>27</day><month>3</month><year>1999</year></pub-date>
<volume>318</volume>
<issue>7187</issue>
<fpage>837</fpage><lpage>841</lpage>
<history>
<date date-type="accepted">
<day>29</day><month>1</month>
<year>1999</year></date>
</history>
<copyright-statement>Copyright &#x00A9; 1999, British Medical
Journal</copyright-statement>
<abstract>...
</abstract>
</article-meta>
</front>
<body>...
</body>
<back>...</back>
</article>


    

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