Update History Update History
| Date | Update |
|---|---|
| 2024 Apr 19 | In Indexed Name, fixed name-alternatives closing tag. |
| 2024 Apr 1 | In <related-article>, added info re: PubMed Central IDs. |
| 2023 Dec 20 | Added inline examples to Response and Sub-Article; removed links to external XML and zip files. |
| 2023 Dec 7 | Updated Author Contributions and <role>. |
| 2023 Dec 1 | Fully Tagged Samples removed from tagging guidelines. Added examples to <aff>, <article-id>, <history>, <issn>. |
| 2023 Nov 16 | Links to Fully Tagged Citations removed from the tagging guidelines. |
| 2023 Jul 24 | Added Single-name Authors. |
| 2023 Jun 27 | In Article Types, added Author Comment, Aggregated Review Documents, Community Comment, Editor Report, Reviewer Report. In <article>, added @article-type values "author-comment", "community-comment", "editor-report", "reviewer-report". In <related-article>, added @related-article-type values "author-comment", "editor-report", "reviewed-article", "reviewer-report". |
| 2023 Jun 15 | Removed SwissProt from External Links. |
| 2023 May 26 | Added information about copyright display to Copyright Information and <copyright-statement>. |
| 2023 Mar 13 | Added information about @xml:lang values to Languages. |
| 2023 Feb 24 | Updated instructions for capturing formatting of xref. |
| 2022 Nov 28 | Updated samples in Response and Sub-Article. In <Abstracts>, added video abstract instructions. Corrected Collaborative Authors example for NLM v2.3. Updated references to samples throughout. Corrected supplementary material tagging in Fully-Tagged sample 2. |
| 2022 Nov 7 | Updated Fully-Tagged Samples and relevant references to them. Updated to include JATS version 1.3. |
| 2022 Nov 3 | In Character Encoding and Special Characters, removed paragraph about control characters and replaced it with Discourged XML Characters. |
| 2022 Oct 27 | Removed PACTR from Clinical Trials. |
| 2022 Oct 11 | Various cosmetic fixes. |
| 2022 Oct 6 | No more than one <volume> or <issue> allowed in <article-meta> or <front-stub>. |
| 2022 Sep 30 | In Clinical Trials, updated URIs for TCTR, UMINCTR, SLCTR, PACTR, and JPRN. |
| 2022 Sep 29 | Added version-specific usage notes to <ali:license_ref> and <ali:free_to_read>. |
| 2022 Sep 27 | Updated Conflict of Interest Statements and <fn> to show @fn-type="coi-statement" for JATS Journal Publishing 1.2 and newer. |
| 2022 Sep 22 | Added @ext-link-type value "ccdc" to External Links. |
| 2022 Sep 20 | Small change to formatting in Licensing Information. |
| 2022 Sep 15 | Added new @ext-link-type values "biomodels", "ec", and "pride" to External Links. |
| 2022 Jul 14 | Added new section Plain Language Summaries, with modeling example in <abstract>, and definition in Abstracts. |
| 2022 Jul 6 | Added equal contribution tagging examples to Author Names. |
| 2022 Jun 29 | In Article Categories or Subjects, added JATS-specific info re: <compund-subject>. In Translated Article Title, removed <trans-title-group> information from NLM 2.3 guidelines. In Related Articles, added <related-object> to JATS and NLM 3.0 guidelines. In <journal-meta>, added <issn-l> to JATS guidelines. Various cosmetic fixes. |
| 2022 Jun 10 | In <xref>, removed guideline regarding <sup>. |
| 2022 Jun 8 | In <article-id>, added @assigning-authority best practice information. |
| 2022 Jun 3 | Changed niso.org and jats4r.org URLs to https. |
| 2022 May 19 | In External Links, updated several Resource URIs. |
| 2022 May 17 | Changed presentation order of version-specific rules so that current JATS is first and NLM v2.3 is last. Left-side navigation menu DTD Version Rule Selection has been renamed Show/Hide Version Rules. DTD versions now listed in descending order from current JATS to NLM v2.3. Fixed version-specific rules presentation in Clinical Trials. Also fixed the JATS4R example so that the text sample and tagging sample match. Changed text in second paragraph of Introduction. |
| 2022 May 12 | In External Links, added new @ext-link-type values "EBI:emdb", "flybase", "mirbase", "pfam", "pombase", "prosite", "rfam", "sasbdb", "swiss-model", and "wormbase". |
| 2021 Sep 8 | Updated tagging guidance for Peer Review Documents to change recommendation for tagging peer review PDF files from <self-uri> to <media> in the <body> and updated tagging examples to reflect this change. |
| 2021 Sep 2 | Added tagging for Author Pronouns. |
| 2021 Aug 12 | Added <role> and Author Contributions for information about tagging author contributions using the CRediT taxonomy. |
| 2021 Aug 11 | Updated Peer Review Documents to reflect updated recommendations for <sub-article> attribute @article-type values based on the JATS4R Peer Review Materials recommendations (https://jats4r.org/peer-review-materials/). |
| 2021 Jun 25 | Updated tagging guidance for <article-id> to specify that only one <article-id> is allowed per any value of @pub-id-type with the exception of the values of "publisher-id", "publisher-manuscript", and "other". |
| 2021 Jun 23 | Updated tagging guidance License tagging in Licensing Information and <license> to include information about canonical URLs for Creative Commons Licenses as well as guidance on the requirment that if a machine-readable URL is tagged in multiple places within a license that the URL must be identical. |
| 2020 Aug 13 | Added tagging guidance for JATS 1.2 for completeness. There are currently no differences in the tagging guidelines for JATS 1.1 and 1.2. |
| 2020 Aug 3 | Added values "preprint" and "published-article" to @related-article-type for the element <related-article>. Updated documentation to indicate that MathML 3.0 is supported and has been for a while. |
| 2020 Apr 29 | Corrected tagging guidance for Funder Identifiers in Funding Information to reflect the new <institution-wrap> and <institution-id> elements available beginning with JATS 1.1. |
| 2020 Jan 22 | Updated Conflict of Interest Statements to correct guidance for when to use @fn-type="conflict" (NLM or JATS Journal Publishing "Blue" DTDs) vs. @fn-type="COI-statement" (NLM or JATS Journal Archiving "Green" DTDs). |
| 2019 Nov 25 | Updated External Links to improve guidance for tagging CrossRef DOIs. |
| 2019 Jul 29 | Added Peer Review Documents and updated <related-article> to point to it. |
| 2019 Jan 30 | Added tagging guidance for DOIs assigned to supplementary material to Supplementary Material. |
| 2018 Dec 28 | Added Data Availability Statements. |
| 2018 Dec 13 | Added Reprints and Republications. Revised <related-article>. |
| 2018 Sep 4 | Added Clinical Trials description and tagging examples. |
| 2018 May 16 | Added @content-type="collaborators" description and tagging example. |
| 2018 Mar 20 | Added details for Graphical Abstracts to Abstracts and an example to <abstract>. |
| 2018 Jan 2 | Removed @mimetype and @mime-subtype requirement from <supplementary-material>. Clarified @mimetype and @mime-subtype instructions for <media>. |
| 2017 Dec 8 | Added @fn-type to <fn> attributes. Added Conflict of Interest Statements link to <fn>. |
| 2017 Oct 24 | Added Data Citations. Updating licensing info to include NISO Access and License Indicatiors elements and the JATS4R recommendations. |
| 2017 Aug 25 | Added style rules for JATS v1.0.Added detail for <funding-group> tagging. Clarified @article-type requirement for <sub-article>. |
| 2016 May 24 | Added details for tagging Conflict of Interest statements. |
| 2015 Nov 9 | Removed @sec-type from examples. |
| 2015 Sep 16 | Added link from <season> to Dates; added preferred abbreviation format to <season>. Removed references to including @sec-type. |
| 2015 Aug 3 | Clarified one name per <contrib>. |
| 2015 Jun 5 | Corrected typos |
| 2015 Apr 28 | Added language defining Structured Abstracts |
| 2015 Jan 13 | Added explicit statement that <related-article> must not point to article containing the tag. |
| 2014 Oct 7 | Added requirement of using Green in v2.3 to tag article-type values "data-paper", "methods-article", "systematic-review" to match "expression of concern" in Article Types. Added missing values for @article-type in <article>. |
| 2014 May 7 | Added Document Object section Multi-Language Articles. Added <date> with @date-type="online" description to <history> Corrected typo in Questions & Answers examples. |
| 2014 Feb 10 | Added Article Types for "Methods Article" and "Systematic Review". |
| 2013 Dec 2 | Clarified date tagging for JATS v1.0; added collection pub-date example; corrected minor mistakes in pub-date examples. |
| 2013 Sep 25 | Added new values to @ext-link-type @mimetype and @mime-subtype are no longer required on <media>. Added info for <related-object> to tag journal articles. |
| 2013 Sep 6 | Attribures mimetype and mime-subtype are no longer required on <media>. |
| 2013 Aug 9 | Corrected order of elements, tag name typo in <contrib-id> example. |
| 2013 Jul 16 | Corrected link to fully-tagged citations in <element-citation> |
| 2013 May 28 | Expression of concern articles in v2.3 must be tagged in Green, not Blue. |
| 2013 May 15 | Added "expression-of-concern" to list of accepted article-type attribute values in <article> Added Contributor ID. |
| 2013 May 9 | Added information on tagging Expressions of Concern. Added details on breaking long equations with <mml:mspace> with @linebreak="goodbreak". |
| 2013 May 7 | Added information on new @related-article-type="peer-review" to @related-article-type table. |
| 2013 Jan 24 | Added DOB sections for multiple versions of affiliations, citations, and author names. Added element sections for <aff-alternatives>, <citation-alternatives>, <collab-alternatives>, <contrib-id>, <grant-num>, <grant-sponsor>, <issn-l>, <name-alternatives>, <on-behalf-of>, <trans-abstract>. Edits throughout for consistency and clarity. |
| 2012 Dec 31 | Updated "Math" section in General Tagging Practices. Added rules for <tex-math> when used in <alternatives>. Added details and examples to <mml:math>. |
| 2012 Dec 5 | Added <td> and <th> to elements allowed to have <alternatives>. Added rules for <license> tagging and <ext-link> within <license> elements. Added rule regarding <collab> inside an expanded contributor list. Added style rules for JATS v1.0. Added section on associating schemas. |
| 2012 Mar 14 | Added content and example to Supplementary Material; added info to <supplementary-material>; added <graphic> and <media> sections. |
| 2012 Mar 5 | Added note about formatting elements in <subject> Fixed element ordering to make alphabetical. |
| 2011 Sep 1 | Added NCBI:sra to list of supported external resources in External Links. |
| 2011 Jun 20 | Added instructions for tagging Author Names as they are to be indexed. Updated rules for Dates to use hyphens instead of en-dashes for ranges. |
| 2011 Jun 8 | Updated <issue> and <supplement> to disallow use of the <supplement> element. Added information on financial disclosures to <fn>, <author-notes>, Funding Information. Added Supplementary Issues section to General Tagging Practice. Disallow the use of <sup> to wrap <xref>. |
| 2011 Apr 7 | Added section on External Links to define external resources supported by PMC and how to tag references to them. Also made minor updates to <ext-link>. |
| 2011 Feb 15 | Edited the Guidelines to bring NIHMS into closer correspondence with PMC and in preparation for switching to NLM DTD 3.0. Also edited the Guidelines to bring Books into closer correspondence with PMC. |
| 2010 May 20 | <mml:math> strict validation rules added. Changes include child element counts and attribute enumerations. |
| 2010 Apr 28 | Added file name and extension requirement for <supplementary-material> and <inline-supplementary-material>. Added link to pmc-tagging-guidelines email list. |
| 2010 Mar 25 | Added <mml:math> fence rules for <mml:msub>, <mml:msup>, and <mml:msubsup>. |
| 2010 Jan 20 | Added rules for MathML 2.0 deprecated attributes to <mml:math> |
| 2009 Dec 3 | Added section on Collaborative Authors. |
| 2009 Sep 10 | Corrected errors in writeup of "Retraction". |
| 2009 Jul 20 | Added chart to <related-article> showing PMC-generated text based on article-type and related-article-type. |
| 2009 Jun 16 | Added required id attributes on <response> and <sub-article>. |
| 2009 Jun 1 | Corrected <author-notes> tag name in <notes> tagging instructions.Added <floats-group> instructions to Figures and Tables for v3.0 tagging. |
| 2009 Jan 12 | Added generic publication date guidelines. |
| 2008 Dec 9 | Updated Table coloring and shading rules. |
| 2008 Nov 19 | Added style rules for v3.0. |
| 2008 Jul 18 | Added disp-quote description and example in Document Objects Section. |
| 2008 Apr 8 | Added @alternate-form-of description and example in Document Objects Section. |
| 2008 Jan 14 | Added information for tagging languages to article pages. |
| 2008 Jan 4 | Added rule for excluding <xref> from <subject>. |
| 2007 Sep 24 | Added information for tagging an article-level release delay for PMC embargo using the Processing Instruction <?release-delay ?>. |
| 2007 Aug 17 | Added information for tagging <corresp>. |
| 2007 Jun 18 | Added example for <license>. |
| 2007 May 14 | Removed Tagging Style section: Duplicate of intro text. |
| 2007 Apr 30 | Updated version number for DTD, floating figures and tables rules; added section element. |
| 2007 Mar 14 | Added details for tagging complex block affiliations. |
| 2007 Mar 13 | Added tagging instructions for complex References such as a reference with more than one citation, notes, and notes with citations. |
| 2007 Jan 17 | Updated rules for Signatures to reflect changes made in DTD v2.2 |
| 2006 Aug 8 | Specified related-article page attribute should only reference first page. |
| 2006 Jul 19 | Added rule about not using <mml:math> to tag single characters. |
| 2006 Jun 27 | Added rule about not using sec-type attribute for sections inside abstracts. |
| 2006 Jun 26 | Added preferred capitalization of Title Case; Added response and sub-article samples. Added rule for tagging xref ranges. |
| 2006 Jun 20 | Updated DTD references to v2.2. |
| 2006 Jun 16 | Added table color tagging. |
| 2006 Jun 7 | <related-article> must have an @id for valid style, but this was left out of the documentation. |
| 2006 May 15 | Added control character restriction; contain copyright and license in permissions; table attributes; position="anchor" for objects inside objects; product description; related-article description; response and sub-article descriptions. Modified samples to reflect style updates. |
| 2006 Mar 23 | Added info about figures and tables being anchored inside appendices and not collected in display-objects section. |
| 2006 Mar 9 | Added clarification to Author/Affiliation relationship. |
| 2006 Feb 24 | Added contract/grant info dob; Updated Signatures dob to reflect new structure including named-content; Updated Sample 3 with new signature tagging; Added generated text dob. |
| 2006 Jan 11 | Updated all DTD references to version 2.1. |
| 2005 Dec 12 | Specified "Figures and Tables" as title for display-objects section. |
| 2005 Dec 7 | Clarified tagging instructions for copyright-statement and copyright-year. |
| 2005 Nov 18 | Updated dates example for month range to 3-letter abbreviations inside season. |
| 2005 Nov 7 | Expanded Meeting Reports/Abstracts section and included example. |
| 2005 Oct 27 | Added links to Online Style Checking tool. |
| 2005 Sep 15 | Added an explicit statement about not using Unicode values from the Private Use Area. |
| 2005 Sep 2 | Added fully-tagged XML articles in compressed zip and text versions for viewing in browser. |
| 2005 Aug 26 | Tagging Guidelines available on the public site. |
| 2003 Jan 1 | First update |