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

ID Syntaxes

• ■ Table of ID Syntaxes

File-Naming Conventions

• ■ Filenames

Full-text Examples

• ■ Full-Text Examples

DTD

• ■ DTDs currently in use

Article metadata

Related articles (corrections, retractions, replies, companion)

Element or context:

<related-article>

Note

Use these requirements to relate corrections, retractions, replies or companion back to a previously published article (see the table below).

Requirements:

1. Contain the linking information to the related article within a <related-article> element
2. Set attribute 'journal-id' on <related-article> to the journal code and attribute 'journal-id-type' to "publisher-id"
3. Set attribute 'xlink:href' on <related-article> to the doi of the related article
4. Set the attribute 'related-article-type' on <related-article> according to the following table:
   

   If @article-type of the article being processed is.....	Set @related-article-type to....
   correction	corrected-article
   retraction	retracted-article
   reply	discussion
   expression-of-concern	concerning-article
   any	companion

<article article-type="correction">
...
<related-article related-article-type="corrected-article" xlink:href="10.1139/cjc-2011-007"
journal-id-type="publisher-id" journal-id="cjc" xlink:type="simple"/>
</article>

<article article-type="retraction">
...
<related-article related-article-type="retracted-article" xlink:href="10.1139/cjce-2025-0088"
journal-id-type="publisher-id" journal-id="cjce" xlink:type="simple"/>
</article>

<article article-type="reply">
...
<related-article related-article-type="discussion" xlink:href="10.1139/apnm-2012-0001"
journal-id-type="publisher-id" journal-id="apnm" xlink:type="simple"/>
</article>

<article article-type="expression-of-concern"> 
...
<related-article related-article-type="concerning-article" xlink:href="10.1139/cjfr-2025-0189" journal-id-type="publisher-id" journal-id="cjfr" xlink:type="simple"/>
</article>

If an article has a companion

<related-article related-article-type="companion" xlink:href="10.1139/apnm-2025-0114" journal-id-type="publisher-id" journal-id="apnm" xlink:type="simple"/>