journal-id-type

Type of Journal Identifier

Names the type of journal identifier or the authority that created a particular journal identifier

Remarks

This Tag Set can record multiple journal identifiers, and best practice is to use this attribute to differentiate them. A journal may have multiple identifiers, each unique to its own defining authority. For example, the value “doi” would indicate that the identifier is a Digital Object Identifier. The value “publisher-id” would indicate that the publisher of the article assigned this particular identifier, but would say nothing about what kind of identifier it is. Similarly, the value “nlm-ta” would indicate that the identifier is the NLM Title Abbreviation.

Attribute Values

In Elements

<journal-id>
<related-article>
Value Meaning
Text, numbers, or special characters Word or phrase that identifies the organization or service who assigned the identifier (for example, “index” to indicate an abstracting or indexing service) or names the type of identifier (for example, “doi”). This attribute may take any value, but see the list of suggested values below.
Restriction: This attribute may be specified if the element is used.

Suggested usage

Although designed to accept any text as its value, the following are suggested journal identifier types for this attribute:

archive

Identifier assigned by an archive or other repository for articles

aggregator

Identifier assigned by a data aggregator

doaj

Directory of Open Access Journals

doi

Digital Object Identifier for the entire journal, not just for the article (rare)

index

Identifier assigned by an abstracting or indexing service

issn

International Standard Serial Number for a journal (This value is generally used when referring to related articles.)

nlm-ta

Identifier assigned by PubMed, for example, “Mol Biol Cell”, “Nucleic Acids Res”, etc. This value is typically the journal abbreviation and may be the same as the abbreviated journal title <abbrev-journal-title>.

pmc

Identifier assigned by PubMed Central, for example, a PMC journal abbreviation such as “pnas”, “mbc”, “nar”, or “molcellb”, etc. This value is typically the journal abbreviation and may be the same as the abbreviated journal title <abbrev-journal-title>.

publisher-id

Identifier assigned by the content publisher, for example, “MOLEC” or “MOLCEL”