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Contributions

Element or context:

<contrib-group>, <contrib>, <role>

Requirements:

NOTE: Each contributor can have multiple contribution types, or no contribution types, applied to them. Only the 14 contribution types defined by the CRediT taxonomy (shown in the table below) can be used.
  1. Place each author's contribution within <role> inside an individual <contrib> element with @contrib-type="authors"
  2. Each <role> element must only include one contribution term. If an author has more than one type of contribution, place each within a new <role> element, and in the order shown in the table below.
  3. Each <role> element must carry the following attributes:
    • @vocab – set to the value "credit"
    • @vocab-identifier – set to "https://credit.niso.org/"
    • @vocab-term – set to the applicable CRediT term, as shown in the table below
    • @vocab-term-identifier – set to the URL of the specific CRediT term, as shown in the table below
    • The content of the <role> element should match the @vocab-term, as shown in the table below
Term @vocab-term; contents of <role> element URI (@vocab-term-identifier)
Conceptualization Conceptualization https://credit.niso.org/contributor-roles/conceptualization/
Data curation Data curation https://credit.niso.org/contributor-roles/data-curation/
Formal analysis Formal analysis https://credit.niso.org/contributor-roles/formal-analysis/
Funding acquisition Funding acquisition https://credit.niso.org/contributor-roles/funding-acquisition/
Investigation Investigation https://credit.niso.org/contributor-roles/investigation/
Methodology Methodology https://credit.niso.org/contributor-roles/methodology/
Project administration Project administration https://credit.niso.org/contributor-roles/project-administration/
Resources Resources https://credit.niso.org/contributor-roles/resources/
Software Software https://credit.niso.org/contributor-roles/software/
Supervision Supervision https://credit.niso.org/contributor-roles/supervision/
Validation Validation https://credit.niso.org/contributor-roles/validation/
Visualization Visualization https://credit.niso.org/contributor-roles/visualization/
Writing — original draft Writing &#x2013; original draft https://credit.niso.org/contributor-roles/writing-original-draft/
Writing — review & &editing Writing &#x2013; review &editing https://credit.niso.org/contributor-roles/writing-review-editing/

Example:

<contrib-group content-type="authors"> 
<contrib contrib-type="author" corresp="yes"> 
<string-name name-style="western"> 
<given-names initials="M">Michael</given-names> <surname initials="E">Evans</surname> 
</string-name> 
<role vocab="credit" vocab-identifier="https://credit.niso.org/" vocab-term="Conceptualization" vocab-term-identifier="https://credit.niso.org/contributor-roles/conceptualization/">Conceptualization</role> 
<role vocab="credit" vocab-identifier="https://credit.niso.org/" vocab-term="Writing — Original Draft" vocab-term-identifier="https://credit.niso.org/contributor-roles/writing-original-draft/">Writing &#x2013; Original Draft</role< <email>mevans@utstat.utoronto.ca</email> 
<xref ref-type="aff" rid="affa"><sup>a</sup></xref> 
</contrib>

<contrib contrib-type="author" corresp="no"> 
<string-name name-style="western"> 
<given-names initials="J">Jabed</given-names><surname initials="T">Tomal</surname> 
</string-name> 
<role vocab="credit" vocab-identifier="https://credit.niso.org/" vocab-term="Conceptualization" vocab-term-identifier="https://credit.niso.org/contributor-roles/conceptualization/">Conceptualization</role> 
<role vocab="credit" vocab-identifier="https://credit.niso.org/" vocab-term="Validation" vocab-term-identifier=" https://credit.niso.org/contributor-roles/validation/">Validation</role>
<role vocab="credit" vocab-identifier="https://credit.niso.org/" vocab-term="Visualization" vocab-term-identifier="https://credit.niso.org/contributor-roles/visualization/">Visualization</role> 
<xref ref-type="aff" rid="affb"><sup>b</sup></xref> 
</contrib> 
<aff id="affa"><label><sup>a</sup></label>Department of Statistical Sciences, <institution>University of Toronto</institution>, <city>Toronto</city>, <state>ON</state> <postal-code>M5S 3G3</postal-code>, <country country="CA">Canada</country></aff> 
<aff id="affb"><label><sup>b</sup></label>Department of Computer and Mathematical Sciences, <institution>University of Toronto Scarborough</institution>, 1265 Military Trail, <city>Toronto</city>, <state>ON</state> <postal-code>M1C 1A4</postal-code>, <country country="CA">Canada</country></aff> 
</contrib-group>