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Issue XML Requirements

Article XML Requirements

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ID Syntaxes

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DTD

Article metadata

Dates, history and pub

Element or context:

<pub-date>, <pub-history>, <event>, <event-desc>

Requirements:

  1. Include the 'iso-8601-date' attribute on <date> and <pub-date>
  2. Pub dates: Contain the pub date (date the article was published on the web) within <pub-date>. Use attribute publication-format="electronic" and attribute date-type="pub" (not: "epub")
    • NOTE: As of Oct. 16, 2025 for all articles, the date within <pub-date> must match the Version of Record date (date used on event-type="version-of-record"). This will not necessarily be the same as the first date the article went online (if there is an Accepted manuscript online date for the article).
  3. History dates: Contain each history date within an <event> tag within <pub-history>, and set attribute 'event-type' to the appropriate event code, as listed in the table below
    • Set the contents of <event-desc> according to the table below
Event type (<event-desc>) @event-type code
Received "received"
Revised "rev-recd"
Accepted "accepted"
Accepted manuscript online "accepted-manuscript"
Version of record online "version-of-record"
Corrected "corrected"

Examples:

A. Pub date

  <pub-date publication-format="electronic" date-type="pub"> iso-8601-date="2019-06-27">
           <day>27</day>
           <month>06</month>
           <year>2019</year>
  </pub-date>

B. History dates

           <pub-history>

             <event event-type="received">
             <event-desc>Received</event-desc>
             <date iso-8601-date="2018-06-01">
             <day>01</day>
             <month>06</month>
             <year>2018</year>
             </date>
             </event>

             <event event-type="rev-recd">
             <event-desc>Revised</event-desc>
             <date iso-8601-date="2018-11-07">
             <day>07</day>
             <month>11</month>
             <year>2018</year>
             </date>
             </event>

             <event event-type="accepted">
             <event-desc>Accepted</event-desc>
             <date iso-8601-date="2019-01-28">
             <day>28</day>
             <month>01</month>
             <year>2019</year>
             </date>
             </event>

             <event event-type="accepted-manuscript">
             <event-desc>Accepted manuscript online</event-desc>
             <date iso-8601-date="2019-02-07">
             <day>07</day>
             <month>02</month>
             <year>2019</year>
             </date>
             </event>

             <event event-type="version-of-record">
             <event-desc>Version of record online</event-desc>
             <date iso-8601-date="2019-06-27">
             <day>27</day>
             <month>06</month>
             <year>2019</year>
             </date>
             </event>

             <event event-type="corrected">
             <event-desc>Corrected</event-desc>
             <date iso-8601-date="2019-07-4">
             <day>04</day>
             <month>07</month>
             <year>2019</year>
             </date>
             </event>

             
           </pub-history>