The full title of a journal article or other journal component such as a book review
The <article-title> element is used in two contexts: as a part of the metadata concerning the article itself and as part of bibliographic reference metadata inside bibliographic citations (<citation> and <nlm-citation>).
In the article metadata, the article subtitle and title are two different elements and should be tagged separately, using the <article-title> and <subtitle> elements. Within a bibliographic reference citation, the subtitle cannot be preserved separately. For citations using <citation>, it is possible to place the subtitle with the title in the <article-title> element (or the <source> element for book titles, proceedings titles, and other titles) or to leave it as untagged data characters within the text of the reference. For references using <nlm-citation>, the subtitle must be included with the title, since that reference model does not permit untagged text. Although this DTD cannot enforce either practice when using <citation>, retrieval performance will be enhanced if the subtitle is consistently placed in the <article-title> element (or the <source> element for book titles, proceedings titles, and other titles) for all cited material, so this is considered best practice.
For extensive examples of formatted <nlm-citation>s including use of <article-title>s in <nlm-citation>s, see: Sample PubMed Central Citations. To see tagged versions of these examples, see: Sample PubMed Central Citations - XML Tagged.
<!ELEMENT article-title
(#PCDATA %title-elements;)* >Any combination of:
<citation> Citation; <nlm-citation> NLM Citation Model; <product> Product Information; <related-article> Related Article Information; <title-group> Title Group
In article metadata:
<article>
<front>
<article-meta>
<title-group>
<article-title>Systematic review of day hospital care for
elderly people</article-title>
</title-group>
<contrib-group>
...
</contrib-group>
<permissions>
<copyright-year>1999</copyright-year>
</permissions>
<abstract>
...
</abstract>
...
</article-meta></front>
...
</article>
In a NLM-style bibliographic citation:
...
<ref>
<nlm-citation citation-type="journal">
<person-group>...</person-group>
<article-title>Electrogastrographic study of patients with unexplained
nausea, bloating and vomiting</article-title>
<source>Gastroenterology</source>
<year>1980</year>
<month>08</month>
<volume>79</volume>
<issue>2</issue>
<fpage>311</fpage>
<lpage>314</lpage>
</nlm-citation>
</ref>
...
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