Collection of footnotes to, or correspondence notes about, authors (and potentially about other contributors). Such footnotes/notes typically name one of the authors a corresponding author, provide the author affiliation or current contact information, explain that the person has changed organizations, or provide other contributor-related material.
References to these footnotes <fn>, as to any other footnote, should be are made using the <xref> element.
Authoring Note: While this element contains an optional Label (of a Figure, Reference, Etc.) element, the Label (of a Figure, Reference, Etc.) element should be included only in those circumstances where a formatting override is needed; Label (of a Figure, Reference, Etc.) should NOT be used in the ordinary course of tagging.
<!ELEMENT author-notes %author-notes-model; >
The following, in order:
...
<article-meta>
<article-id pub-id-type="pmid">...</article-id>
<title-group>...
</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" rid="StLukes"/>
</contrib>
<contrib contrib-type="author">
<name><surname>Young</surname>
<given-names>John G.</given-names></name>
<role>consultant physician</role>
<xref ref-type="aff" rid="RoyalInf"/>
<author-comment><p>on behalf of the Day Hospital
Group</p></author-comment>
</contrib>
</contrib-group>
<aff id="StLukes">
<sup><italic>a</italic></sup>Department of Health Care
for the Elderly, St Luke’s Hospital, Bradford BD5
0NA</aff>
...
<pub-date pub-type="pub">...
</pub-date>...
</article-meta>...
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