<front>

Front Matter

Definition

Container element for the metadata of an article

Remarks

The <front> element is somewhat superfluous since it merely contains the element <article-meta> which is itself a container element for information about an article. It is assumed that one of the purposes of authoring using this tag set is for the article’s inclusion in PubMed Central. Because PubMed Central also receives material using other tag sets which use a front matter element to contain information about both an article and the journal in which it is published, the <front> element was retained in this tag set for consistency.

Related Elements

A journal article <article> may be divided into three parts:

  1. the <front> (the article metadata or header information for the article);
  2. the <body> (textual and graphical content of the article); and
  3. any <back> (ancillary information such as a glossary, reference list, or appendix).

Model Information

Content Model

<!ELEMENT  front        %front-model;                                >

Description

Article Metadata <article-meta>

This element may be contained in:

<article> Article

Tagged Example


<article>
<front>
<article-meta>
<title-group>
<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</given-names></name>
<role>research physiotherapist</role>
<aff>Department of Health Care for the Elderly, 
St Luke&#x2019;s Hospital, Bradford BD5 0NA</aff>
<author-comment>
<p>Competing interests: None declared.</p>
<p>Funding: NHS Executive Northern and
Yorkshire Region, Stroke Association.</p>
...
</author-comment>
</contrib>
...
</contrib-group>
<permissions>
<copyright-statement>Copyright &#x00A9; 1999, British Medical 
Journal</copyright-statement>
<copyright-year>1999</copyright-year>
</permissions>
<abstract>...</abstract>
</article-meta>
</front>
<body>...</body>
<back>...</back>
</article> 


Module

articleauthoring.dtd