The top level (document) element of journal article, which contains all the metadata and content for the article
This element can be used to describe not only journal articles but also much of the non-article content within a journal, such as book and product reviews, letters to the editor, and news summaries.
A journal article <article> may be divided into four (more typically, three) parts:
The following, in order:
<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>
<abbrev-journal-title>BR MED J</abbrev-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>
<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 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’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 © 1999, British Medical
Journal</copyright-statement>
<abstract>...
</abstract>
</article-meta>
</front>
<body>...
</body>
<back>...</back>
</article>
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