XML requirements for
CSP's NRC Research Press journals

Instructions for using this documentation

• ■ Revision history

Issue XML Requirements

• ■ Article type order
• ■ Issue metadata for continuous publication

Article XML Requirements

• ■ Journal Metadata

▼ Article Objects▲

ID Syntaxes

• ■ Table of ID Syntaxes

File-Naming Conventions

• ■ Filenames

Full-text Examples

• ■ Full-Text Examples

DTD

• ■ DTDs currently in use

Article metadata

Authors

Element or context:

<contrib>

Requirements:

1. Group all authors into a single <contrib-group> with attribute 'content-type' set to "authors".
2. Contain each author within an individual <contrib> element with @contrib-type="authors"
3. If an author is a corresponding author, then set @corresp="yes" and place the author's email address within <email> inside <contrib>
4. The name of the author should go in <string-name name-style="western">, where the surname is within <surname> and the given names are within <given-names> (see the example below)
5. Set attribute 'initials' on <given-names> and <surname>to the intitals for the author's given names and surname, respectively (see the example, below)
6. If the author has a suffix (e.g., "Jr."), include it within <suffix>
7. N.B. If the author is a collaborative group, such as an institution or working group, then contain the collaborator within <collab> (see the second instance of <contrib> in the example, below). For more examples of group authorship types, see also Authors, alternate authorship types
8. See affiliations for how to mark up authors' affiliations
9. If CRediT contributions are listed for any authors, see Authors' CRediT contributions for the required mark-up
10. If there is a footnote on an author, see author footnotes

Example:

<contrib-group content-type="authors">
   <contrib contrib-type="author" corresp="yes">
   <contrib-id contrib-id-type="orcid" authenticated="true">
  <contrib contrib-type="author" corresp="no">      
            <string-name name-style="western">
      <given-names initials="V">Vincent</given-names> <surname initials="V">Vega</surname>
      </string-name>
<email>v.vega@gmail.com</email>
          <xref ref-type="aff" rid="affa"><sup>a</sup></xref>
     <xref ref-type="fn" rid="afn1"></xref>
   </contrib>
   <contrib contrib-type="author" corresp="no">
     <collab>The Mohandas K.Gandhi Institute for Research in Peaceful Fisheries</collab>
        <xref ref-type="aff" rid="affa"><sup>a</sup></xref>
     <xref ref-type="fn" rid="afn1"></xref>
  </contrib>
<contrib contrib-type="author" corresp="no">
   <string-name name-style="western">
       <given-names initials="M">Marsalis</given-names> <surname initials="W">Wallace</surname>
   </string-name>
   <xref ref-type="aff" rid="affa"><sup>a</sup></xref>
</contrib>
<contrib contrib-type="author" corresp="yes">
   <string-name name-style="western">
   <given-names initials="C">Captain</given-names> <surname initials="C">Cooke</surname>
<suffix>Jr.</suffix>
   </string-name>
       <email>steven_cooke@carleton.ca</email>
    <xref ref-type="aff" rid="affa"><sup>a</sup></xref>
    <xref ref-type="aff" rid="affb"><sup>b</sup></xref>
</contrib>
<aff id="affa">
      <label><sup>a</sup></label>Fish Ecology and Conservation Physiology Laboratory, Department of Biology, 
       Institute of Environmental Science, <institution>Carleton University</institution>, 1125 Colonel By Dr., <city>Ottawa</city>, <state>ON</state> <postal-code>K1S 5B6</postal-code>,
       <country country="CA">Canada</country>
</aff>
<aff id="affb"><label><sup>b</sup></label>Canadian Centre for Evidence-Based Conservation and Environmental 
       Management, <institution>Carleton University</institution>, 1125 Colonel By Dr., <city>Ottawa</city>, <state>ON</state> <postal-code>K1S 5B6</postal-code>, <country country="CA">Canada</country>
</aff>
</contrib-group>