PubMed Central Tagging Guidelines [article]

Document Objects

These Document Objects refer to pieces of the XML documents that define a single concept (author/affiliation relationships, copyright information) and often include several XML elements in their tagging.

Index of objects

Affiliations

Affiliation information should be tagged in a <contrib> or in the <contrib-group>. See <contrib-group> for more details.

Alternate formats of the same object

Where multiple formats of an object (such as a graphic file, media object, and chemical structure) are available, this attribute indicates that a format is a secondary one and describes its relationship to the primary format. The value of @alternate-form-of must be the ID of the primary format.

For PMC's purposes, the attribute @alternate-form-of should be used on <array>, <chem-struct>, <graphic>, <media>, <mml:math>, <preformat>, <table>, and <tex-math>. @alternate-form-of should not be necessary on <inline-formula>, <disp-formula>, or <supplementary-material>, since these elements are used to contain the various formats of a given object.

<tex-math> and <graphic> are alternate forms of the primary object <mml:math> in this example.

<disp-formula id="Eq0001">
  <mml:math id="Eq0001-mml">
    <mml:mi>E</mml:mi>
    <mml:mo>=</mml:mo>
    <mml:mover>
      <mml:mrow>
        <mml:mi>m</mml:mi>
        <mml:mi>c</mml:mi>
      </mml:mrow>
      <mml:mn>2</mml:mn>
    </mml:mover>
  </mml:math>
  <tex-math alternate-form-of="Eq0001-mml">
  \documentclass[10pt]{article}
    \usepackage{wasysym}
    \usepackage[substack]{amsmath}
    \usepackage{amsfonts}
    \usepackage{amssymb}
    \usepackage{amsbsy}
    \usepackage[mathscr]{eucal}
    \usepackage{mathrsfs}
    \usepackage{pmc}
    \usepackage[Euler]{upgreek}
    \pagestyle{empty}
    \oddsidemargin -1.0in
    \begin{document}
      \[
      E = mc^{2}
      \]
    \end{document}
  </tex-math>
  <graphic alternate-form-of="Eq0001-mml" xlink:href="biotes-01-100-e001.tif"/>
</disp-formula>

Article Categories or Subjects

Every article should have <article-categories> with a <subj-group> @subj-group-type="heading". PMC will use the contents of this <subj-group> to build the Table of Contents for the issue.

See related elements: <article-categories>, <subject>.

Article Title

See related elements: <title-group>, <article-title>, <fn-group>, <subtitle> and <trans-title>

Book review titles can vary; see Book Reviews for tagging examples.

Do not tag emphasis that encompasses the entire title.

Subtitle

Tag only the content of the subtitle in this tag. Do not include formatting that encompasses the entire subtitle.

Treatment of lysosomal storage disorders

Increased awareness and diagnosis are important as treatment is now feasible

<title-group>
  <article-title>Treatment of lysosomal storage disorders</article-title>
  <subtitle>Increased awareness and diagnosis are important as treatment 
    is now feasible</subtitle>
</title-group>

Footnotes on the Title

If there is a footnote to the title, put the <xref> (with @ref-type="fn") in the <article-title> or <subtitle> element, and set the <fn> in the <fn-group> in <back>.

Cathepsin B Regulates the Intrinsic Angiogenic Threshold of Endothelial Cells‡

Eunok Im, Annapurna Venkatakrishnan, and Andrius Kazlauskas

Schepens Eye Research Institute, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA 02114

‡The online version of this article contains supplemental material at MBC Online.

<title-group>
  <article-title>Cathepsin B Regulates the Intrinsic Angiogenic Threshold
    of Endothelial Cells<xref ref-type="fn" rid="fn1">‡<xref>
  </article-title>
</title-group>
...
<back>
...
<fn-group>
  <fn id="fn1">
    <p><label>‡</label>The online version of this article
	contains supplemental material at MBC Online.</p>
  </fn>
</fn-group>

Article Types

The @article-type is required on <article>. See <article> for details on tagging the attribute. Following is a listing of article types and things to keep in mind while tagging these types of articles.

Book Reviews

can be tagged in a variety of ways. Some general rules for book reviews are:

Use @article-type="book-review" in <article>.
In all cases, as much information about the book being reviewed should be tagged within <product> in <article-meta>. It is preferred that the order of citation information tagged within <product> follow the NLM Citation Style.
The author of the book review (the reviewer) should be tagged as the author of the article. The book authors will be included only in the <product> element.

If the title of the book being reviewed is used as the title of the article, tag the <article> and <article-title> as follows:

Plunkett's Health Care Industry Almanac. Edited by Jack W. Plunkett

and Michelle LeGate Plunkett. Dallas, TX: Corporate Jobs Outlook, 1995.

700p. $125.00. ISBN: 0-9638268-1-6.

The health care system in the 1990s introduced many new terms, such as

"managed health care," "point-of-service" (POS) plan, and ...

<article article-type="book-review">
  <title-group>
    <article-title>Plunkett's Health Care Industry Almanac.</article-title>
  </title-group>

The book (product) information should be tagged in <product>.

<product product-type="book">
  <person-group person-group-type="editor">
    <name>
      <surname>Plunkett</surname>
      <given-names>Jack W.</given-names>
    </name>
    <name>
      <surname>Plunkett</surname>
      <given-names>Michelle LeGate</given-names>
    </name>
  </person-group>
  <source>Plunkett's Health Care Industry Almanac.</source>
  <year>1995</year>
  <publisher-name>Corporate Jobs Outlook</publisher-name>
  <publisher-loc>Dallas, TX</publisher-loc>
  <page-count count="700"/>
  <comment>$125.00</comment>
  <isbn>0-9638268-1-6</isbn>
  </product>

Sometimes a book review has a title of "Book Review" followed by the name of the book reviewed. In this case, tag the title of the book reviewed as a <subtitle>.

Book Review: Mendel's legacy: the origin of classical genetics

<article article-type="book-review">
  <title-group>
    <article-title>Book Review</article-title>
    <subtitle>Mendel's legacy:  the origin of classical genetics</subtitle>
  </title-group>

The book (product) information should be tagged in <product>.

<product product-type="book">
  <person-group person-group-type="author">
    <name>
      <surname>Carlson</surname>
      <given-names>Elof Axel</given-names>
    </name>
  </person-group>
  <source>Mendel's legacy:  the origin of classical genetics.</source>
  <year>2004</year>
  <publisher-name>Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Press</publisher-name>
  <publisher-loc>Cold Spring Harbor</publisher-loc>
  <page-count count="332"/>
  <isbn>hardback 0-87969-675-3</isbn>
  <comment>US$45.00</comment>
  </product>

Sometimes the title of a book review is neither "Book Review" nor the title of the book being reviewed. Instead it is descriptive of the book or the review. The following example is for a review of JSTOR: A history.

Looking from the Past to the Future

<article article-type="book-review">
  <title-group>
    <article-title>Looking from the Past to the Future</article-title>
  </title-group>

The book (product) information should be tagged in <product>.

<product product-type="book">
  <person-group person-group-type="author">
    <name>
      <surname>Schonfeld</surname>
      <given-names>R C</given-names>
    </name>
  </person-group>
  <source>JSTOR: A history.</source>
  <year>2003</year>
  <publisher-name>Princeton University Press<publisher-name>
  <publisher-loc>Princeton, New Jersey</publisher-loc>
  <page-count count="412"/>
  <isbn>(hardcover) 0-691-11531-1</isbn>
  <comment>US$29.95</comment>
  </product>

Product Reviews

for hardware, software packages, or other media follow the same guidelines provided for Book Reviews, but the example below accounts for some unique features. See Sample 4 for an example.

Use @article-type="product-review" in <article>.

IMMEX Problem Solving Software. Ronald H. Stevens. University of California, Los Angeles, School of Medicine, Department of Microbiology and Immunology, 43-319 CHS, Los Angeles, CA 90024. Demo disk: $30.00. Author/delivery and analysis modules, $450.00. System requirements: IBM-compatible running on a local area network, Microsoft Windows 3.1

<product product-type="software">
  <person-group person-group-type="inventor">
    <name>
      <surname>Stevens</surname>
      <given-names>Ronald H.</given-names>
    </name>
  </person-group>
  <source>IMMEX Problem Solving Software</source>
  <publisher-name>University of California, Los Angeles, School of Medicine,
    Department of Microbiology and Immunology<publisher-name>
  <publisher-loc>43-319 CHS, Los Angeles, CA 90024/publisher-loc>
  <comment>Demo disk $30.00.  Author/delivery and analysis modules, $450.00.
    System requirements: IBM-compatible running on a local area network,
    Microsoft Windows 3.1</comment>
</product>

Corrections/Errata

Use @article-type="correction" in <article>.
Front matter for corrections and errata should be for the correction itself.
Citation information about the corrected article should be captured within the body of the article and include a <related-article> with @related-article-type="corrected-article".

See Sample 5 for an example.

Retractions

Use @article-type="retraction" in <article>.
Front matter for retractions and errata should be for the retraction itself.
Citation information about the corrected article should be captured within the body of the article and include a <related-article> with @related-article-type="corrected-article".

Obituaries

Use @article-type="obituary" in <article>.
Images used in obituaries should follow tagging rules outlined in <fig>.

Editorials

Use @article-type="editorial" in <article>.
If the editorial refers to a specific article (or articles), that information should be captured in a <related-article> with @related-article-type="commentary-article".
If the editorial contains a signature block, see Signatures for tagging guidelines.

See Sample 3 for an example.

In Brief/In This Issue

Use @article-type="in-brief" in <article>.
Links to articles discussed in these articles may be captured in <related-article> with @related-article-type="article-reference".

Letters

Use @article-type="letter" in <article>.
Tag letters as individual articles, even if several letters start on the same page (see Continuous Makeup Articles).
Use <related-article> @related-article-type="commentary-article" to capture articles the letters specifically reference.
Capture the letter's author information following <contrib-group> guidelines.
If the letter contains a signature block, see Signatures for tagging guidelines.

Replies

Use @article-type="reply" in <article>.
Use <related-article> @related-article-type="letter" to identify the letter to which the reply was written.
Capture the reply's author information following <contrib-group> guidelines.
If the reply contains a signature block, see Signatures for tagging guidelines.

Review Articles

Use @article-type="review-article" in <article>.
Review articles are considered reviews of research or summary articles. This does not include Book Reviews or Product Reviews.

Commentaries

Use @article-type="article-commentary" in <article>.
Capture the commented-on article information in <related-article> @related-article-type="commentary-article".

Meeting Reports/Abstracts

Use @article-type="meeting-report" in <article>.
The name of the conference should be captured in the <article-title>. The <article-meta> should contain article citation information, but should not include author information.
Tag each abstract in a separate <sub-article> with <title> of the presentation/paper abstract. The full citation of the abstract, including author/presenter should be captured in the <sub-article> <article-meta>.
The pagination tagged in the <sub-article> <article-meta> should reflect the actual pages on which the individual abstract appears. This will not always be the same as the parent <article> pagination.

The Association of Clinical Pathologists

102nd scientific meeting

The 102nd scientific meeting was held at the Royal Society of Medicine, London 21-22 September 1978. Abstracts of the scientific communications follow.

Infectious mononucleosis with an unusual Paul-Bunnell result

D. Parratt and D. O. Ho-Yen (Departments of Bacteriology and Haematology, Ninewells Hospital and Medical School, Dundee) An 18-year-old girl presented with typical clinical and cytological findings of infectious mononucleosis.

Age-related changes in human thymus

A. K. Singh and Jayanti Singh (St Thomas' Hospital, London) Biopsies of thymus were undertaken in 52 subjects during open-heart surgery. Their ages ranged from 5-75 years.

<article article-type="meeting-report">
  <front>
    <journal-meta>[specific tags omitted]</journal-meta>
    <article-meta>
      <article-categories><subj-group>
        <subject>Meeting Abstracts</subject>
      </subj-group></article-categories>
      <title-group>
        <article-title>The Association of Clinical Pathologists</article-title>
        <subtitle>102nd scientific meeting</subtitle>
      </title-group>
      <pub-date pub-type="ppub"><month>4</month><year>1979</year></pub-date>
      <volume>32</volume>
      <issue>4</issue>
      <fpage>415</fpage>
      <lpage>418</lpage>
    </article-meta>
  </front>
  <body>
    <p>The 102nd scientific meeting was held at the Royal Society of Medicine, 
      London21-22 September 1978. Abstracts of the scientific communications 
      follow.</p>
  </body>
  <sub-article article-type="abstract">
    <front-stub>
      <title-group>
        <article-title>Infectious mononucleosis with an unusual Paul-Bunnell
          result</article-title>
      </title-group>
      <contrib-group>
        <contrib contrib-type="author">
          <name>
            <surname>Parratt</surname>
            <given-names>D.</given-names>
          </name>
        </contrib>
        <contrib contrib-type="author">
          <name>
            <surname>Ho-Yen</surname>
            <given-names>D. O.</given-names>
          </name>
        </contrib>
        <aff>Departments of Bacteriology and Haematology, Ninewells Hospital and 
          Medical School, Dundee</aff>
        </contrib-group>
      </front-stub>
      <body>[tagged text omitted]</body>
    </sub-article>
    <sub-article article-type="abstract">
      <front-stub>
        <title-group>
          <article-title>Age-related changes in human thymus</article-title>
        </title-group>
        <contrib-group>
          <contrib contrib-type="author">
            <name>
              <surname>Singh</surname>
              <given-names>A. K. </given-names>
            </name>
          </contrib>
          <contrib contrib-type="author">
            <name>
              <surname>Singh</surname>
              <given-names>Jayanti</given-names>
            </name>
          </contrib>
          <aff>St Thomas' Hospital, London</aff>
        </contrib-group>
      </front-stub>
      <body>[tagged text omitted]</body>
    </sub-article>
</article>

Author Names

Each author name and its associated information should be tagged in a <contrib>.

Set the following attributes on <contrib> for these situations.

Situation	attribute
corresponding author	@corresp="yes"
author is deceased	@deceased="yes"
author contributed equally	@equal-contrib="yes"

If more information than can be represented with a simple yes/no is supplied for one of these situations, we will need to carry this information in <fn> in <author-notes>. If this is the case, the attribute is not needed.

For example, if the author is indicated just as "Corresponding Author", use the @corresp="yes"

Author Notes

This includes all information related to authors that cannot be expressed with the attributes (@ca, @ce, etc) that can be hung on an author.

See related elements <author-notes>.

Author/Affiliation Relationship

The relationships between <contrib>, and <aff> can be complex, but we should be able to simplify things here:

All author/affiliations should be tagged in the same style within a given article.

A. If there is an address or affiliation supplied for each <contrib>, include the <aff> in the tagging for the <contrib>.

Lorraine Tanabe§

National Center for Biotechnology Information, National Library of Medicine, NIH, 8600 Rockville Pike, Bethesda, MD, USA

Lynne H. Thom

Consolidated Safety Services, 10335 Democracy Lane, Suite 202, Fairfax, VA, USA

§Corresponding author

<contrib-group>
  <contrib contrib-type="author" corresp="yes">
    <name>
      <surname>Tanabe</surname>
      <given-names>Lorraine</given-names>
    </name>
    <aff>National Center for Biotechnology Information, National Library of
	 Medicine, NIH, 8600 Rockville Pike, Bethesda, MD, USA</aff>
  </contrib>
  <contrib contrib-type="author">
    <name>
      <surname>Thom</surname>
      <given-names>Lynne H.</given-names>
    </name>
    <aff>Consolidated Safety Services, 10335 Democracy Lane, Suite 202,
	 Fairfax, VA, USA</aff>
  </contrib>
</contrib-group>

B. If there is one affiliation supplied for all of the contributors, include the <aff> in the tagging for the <contrib-group>.

Authors: Gabor T. Marth1, Eva Czabarka, Janos Murvai, & Stephen T. Sherry.

Affiliations: National Center for Biotechnology Information, National Library of Medicine, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland 20894

1Present affiliation: Department of Biology, Boston College, Chestnut Hill, Massachusetts 02467.

<contrib-group>
  <contrib contrib-type="author">
    <name>
      <surname>Marth</surname>
      <given-names>Gabor T.</given-names>
    </name>
    <xref ref-type="author-notes" rid="FN1">1</xref>
  </contrib>
  <contrib contrib-type="author">
    <name>
      <surname>Czabarka</surname>
      <given-names>Eva</given-names>
    </name>
  </contrib>
  <contrib contrib-type="author">
    <name>
      <surname>Murvai</surname>
      <given-names>Janos</given-names>
    </name>
  </contrib>
  <contrib contrib-type="author">
    <name>
      <surname>Sherry</surname>
      <given-names>Stephen T.</given-names>
    </name>
  </contrib>
  <aff>National Center for Biotechnology Information, National Library of
  Medicine, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland 20894</aff>
</contrib-group>

C. If there are multiple <contrib-group>, each with a different <aff>, include the corresponding <aff> in the tagging for the <contrib-group>.

Lorraine Tanabe§ and Natalie Xie,

National Center for Biotechnology Information, National Library of Medicine, NIH, 8600 Rockville Pike, Bethesda, MD, USA

Lynne H. Thom and Wayne Matten

Consolidated Safety Services, 10335 Democracy Lane, Suite 202, Fairfax, VA, USA

§Corresponding author

<contrib-group>
  <contrib contrib-type="author" corresp="yes">
    <name>
      <surname>Tanabe</surname>
      <given-names>Lorraine</given-names>
    </name>
  </contrib>
  <contrib contrib-type="author">
    <name>
      <surname>Xie</surname>
      <given-names>Natalie</given-names>
    </name>
  </contrib>
  <aff>National Center for Biotechnology Information, National Library of
  Medicine, NIH, 8600 Rockville Pike, Bethesda, MD, USA</aff>
</contrib-group>
<contrib-group>
  <contrib contrib-type="author">
    <name>
      <surname>Thom</surname>
      <given-names>Lynne H.</given-names>
    </name>
  </contrib>
  <contrib contrib-type="author">
    <name>
      <surname>Matten</surname>
      <given-names>Wayne</given-names>
    </name>
  </contrib>
  <aff>Consolidated Safety Services, 10335 Democracy Lane, Suite 202,
  Fairfax, VA, USA</aff>
</contrib-group>

D. If there are complex relationships between authors and contributors, and the relationships are defined by symbols (including letters/numbers) - as below, set the <xref> element with @ref-type="aff" to refer to the corresponding @id on <aff>. The <xref> should be contained within the <contrib>. If there are multiple <xref> elements in the same <contrib>, do not include punctuation between them.

All of the affiliations should follow the single <contrib-group> in this case.

Olga V. Moroz1, Maria Harkiolaki1,2, Michael Y. Galperin3, Alexei A. Vagin1, Dolores González-Pacanowska4 and Keith S. Wilson1

1Structural Biology Laboratory, Department of Chemistry, University of York, Heslington, York YO10 5YW, UK;

2Cancer Research UK Cell Signalling Group and Weatherall Institute of Molecular Medicine, Oxford, OX3 9DS, UK;

3National Center for Biotechnology Information, National Library of Medicine, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland 20894, USA;

4Instituto de Parasitología y Biomedicina "López-Neyra", C/Ventanilla, 11. 18001 Granada, Spain


<contrib-group>
  <contrib contrib-type="author">
    <name>
      <surname>Moroz</surname>
      <given-names>Olga V.</given-names>
    </name>
    <xref ref-type="aff" rid="A1">1</xref>
  </contrib>
  <contrib contrib-type="author">
    <name>
      <surname>Harkiolaki</surname>
      <given-names>Maria</given-names>
    </name>
    <xref ref-type="aff" rid="A1">1</xref>
    <xref ref-type="aff" rid="A2">2</xref>
  </contrib>
  <contrib contrib-type="author">
    <name>
      <surname>Galperin</surname>
      <given-names>Michael</given-names>
    </name>
    <xref ref-type="aff" rid="A3">3</xref>
  </contrib>
  <contrib contrib-type="author">
    <name>
      <surname>Vagin</surname>
      <given-names>Alexei A.</given-names>
    </name>
    <xref ref-type="aff" rid="A1">1</xref>
  </contrib>
  <contrib contrib-type="author">
    <name>
      <surname>Gonz&#x00E1;lez-Pacanowska</surname>
      <given-names>Delores</given-names>
    </name>
    <xref ref-type="aff" rid="A4">4</xref>
  </contrib>
  <contrib contrib-type="author">
    <name>
      <surname>Wilson</surname>
      <given-names>Keith S.</given-names>
    </name>
    <xref ref-type="aff" rid="A1">1</xref>
    <xref ref-type="author-notes" rid="FN1">*</xref>
  </contrib>
</contrib-group>
<aff id="A1">
  <label>1</label>Structural Biology Laboratory, Department of Chemistry,
  University of York, Heslington, York YO10 5YW, UK;
</aff>
<aff id="A2">
  <label>2</label>Cancer Research UK Cell Signalling Group and Weatherall
  Institute of Molecular Medicine, Oxford, OX3 9DS, UK;
</aff>
<aff id="A3">
  <label>3</label>National Center for Biotechnology Information, National
  Library of Medicine, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland 20894,
  USA;
</aff>
<aff id="A4">
  <label>4</label>Instituto de Parasitolog&#x00ED;a y Biomedicina
  "L&#x00F3;pez-Neyra", C/Ventanilla, 11. 18001 Granada, Spain
</aff>

E. If the affiliation information has been presented as a single block of text where the relationships between author and affiliation are complex and cannot be separated easily, tag the entire affiliation block in one <aff>. Most of the time, the authors' names or initials will be sprinkled through this block of text. This is OK. Also, this block of text might contain other information not exactly related to affiliations. This is OK as well.

Set all of the authors in one <contrib-group> and set the <aff> in this <contrib-group>.

Heloisa P. Soares

Ambuj Kumar

Stephanie Daniels

Suzanne Swann

Alan Cantor

Iztok Hozo

Mike Clark

Fadila Serdarevic

Clement Gwede

Andy Trotti

Benjamin Djulbegovic

Author Affiliations: H. Lee Moffitt Cancer Center & Research Institute at University of South Florida, Tampa (Drs Soares, Kumar, Cantor, Serdarevic, Gwede, Trotti, and Djulbegovic and Ms Daniels); Department of Statistics, Radiation Therapy Oncology Group, Philadelphia, Pa (Dr Swann); Department of Mathematics, University of Indiana Northwest, Gary (Dr Hozo); UK Cochrane Centre, Oxford, England (Dr Clark).

<contrib-group>
  <contrib contrib-type="author">
    <name>
      <surname>Soares</surname>
      <given-names>Heloisa P.</given-names>
    </name>
  </contrib>
  <contrib contrib-type="author">
    <name>
      <surname>Kumar</surname>
      <given-names>Ambuj</given-names>
    </name>
  </contrib>
  <contrib contrib-type="author">
    <name>
      <surname>Daniels</surname>
      <given-names>Stephanie</given-names>
    </name>
  </contrib>
  <contrib contrib-type="author">
    <name>
      <surname>Swann</surname>
      <given-names>Suzanne</given-names>
    </name>
  </contrib>
  <contrib contrib-type="author">
    <name>
      <surname>Cantor</surname>
      <given-names>Alan</given-names>
    </name>
  </contrib>
  <contrib contrib-type="author">
    <name>
      <surname>Hozo</surname>
      <given-names>Iztok</given-names>
    </name>
  </contrib>
  <contrib contrib-type="author">
    <name>
      <surname>Clark</surname>
      <given-names>Mike</given-names>
    </name>
  </contrib>
  <contrib contrib-type="author">
    <name>
      <surname>Serdarevic</surname>
      <given-names>Fadila</given-names>
    </name>
  </contrib>
  <contrib contrib-type="author">
    <name>
      <surname>Gwede</surname>
      <given-names>Clement</given-names>
    </name>
  </contrib>
  <contrib contrib-type="author">
    <name>
      <surname>Trotti</surname>
      <given-names>Andy</given-names>
    </name>
  </contrib>
  <contrib contrib-type="author">
    <name>
      <surname>Djulbegovic</surname>
      <given-names>Benjamin</given-names>
    </name>
  </contrib>
  <aff>Author Affiliations: H. Lee Moffitt Cancer Center & Research Institute at 
  University of South Florida, Tampa (Drs Soares, Kumar, Cantor, Serdarevic, 
  Gwede, Trotti, and Djulbegovic and Ms Daniels); Department of Statistics, 
  Radiation Therapy Oncology Group, Philadelphia, Pa (Dr Swann); Department of 
  Mathematics, University of Indiana Northwest, Gary (Dr Hozo); UK Cochrane 
  Centre, Oxford, England (Dr Clark).</aff>
</contrib-group>

James B. Leverenz, MD

Mark A. Fishel, MD

Elaine R. Peskind, MD

Thomas J. Montine, MD, PhD

David Nochlin, MD

Ellen Steinbart, RN, MA

Murray A. Raskin, MD

Gerard D. Schellenberg, PhD

Thomas D. Bird, MD

Debby Tsuang, MD, MS

Author Affiliations: Parkinson's Disease (Dr Leverenz), Mental Illness (Drs Leverenz, Peskind, Raskind, Schellenberg, and Tsuang and Ms Steinbart), Research, Education, and Clinical Centers, Veterans Affairs Puget Sound Health Care System, Seattle, Wash; and Departments of Neurology (Drs Leverenz, Fishel, and Bird) and Psychiatry and Behavioral Science (Drs Leverenz, Peskind, Raskind, and Tsuang), Division of Neuropathology, Department of Pathology (Drs Montine and Nochlin), and Division of Gerontology/Geriatrics, Department of Medicine (Dr Schellenberg), University of Washington School of Medicine, Seattle.

<contrib-group>
  <contrib>
    <name>
      <surname>Leverenz</surname>
      <given-names>James B.</given-names>
    </name>
      <degrees>MD</degrees>
  </contrib>
  <contrib>
    <name>
      <surname>Fishel</surname>
      <given-names>Mark A.</given-names>
    </name>
      <degrees>MD</degrees>
  </contrib>
  <contrib>
    <name>
      <surname>Peskind</surname>
      <given-names>Elaine R.</given-names>
    </name>
      <degrees>MD</degrees>
  </contrib>
  <contrib>
    <name>
      <surname>Montine</surname>
      <given-names>Thomas J.</given-names>
    </name>
      <degrees>MD</surname>
    </name>
      <degrees>PhD</degrees>
  </contrib>
  <contrib>
    <name>
      <surname>Nochlin</surname>
      <given-names>David</given-names>
    </name>
      <degrees>MD</degrees>
  </contrib>
  <contrib>
    <name>
      <surname>Steinbart</surname>
      <given-names>Ellen</given-names>
    </name>
      <degrees>RN, MA</surname>
  </contrib>
  <contrib>
    <name>
      <surname>Raskin</surname>
      <given-names>Murray A.</given-names>
    </name>
      <degrees>MD</degrees>
  </contrib>
  <contrib>
    <name>
      <surname>Schellenberg</surname>
      <given-names>Gerard D.</given-names>
    </name>
      <degrees>PhD</degrees>
  </contrib>
  <contrib>
    <name>
      <surname>Bird</surname>
      <given-names>Thomas D.</given-names>
    </name>
      <degrees>MD</degrees>
  </contrib>
  <contrib>
    <name>
      <given-names>Debby Tsuang</surname>
    </name>
      <degrees>MD, MS</degrees>
  </contrib>
  <aff>Author Affiliations: Parkinson's Disease (Dr Leverenz), Mental Illness 
  (Drs Leverenz, Peskind, Raskind, Schellenberg, and Tsuang and Ms Steinbart), 
  Research, Education, and Clinical Centers, Veterans Affairs Puget Sound Health 
  Care System, Seattle, Wash; and Departments of Neurology (Drs Leverenz, 
  Fishel, and Bird) and Psychiatry and Behavioral Science (Drs Leverenz, 
  Peskind, Raskind, and Tsuang), Division of Neuropathology, Department of 
  Pathology (Drs Montine and Nochlin), and Division of Gerontology/Geriatrics, 
  Department of Medicine  (Dr Schellenberg), University of Washington School 
  of Medicine, Seattle.</aff>
</contrib-group>

Body

The article body should be pretty straightforward. There are only a few points.

All sections should have titles or labels. The body may start with <p>-level elements; it does not need to start with a <sec>. Once <sec> have started, you cannot go back to <p>-level elements.
All <fig> and <table-wrap> that are not contained within an appendix (<app>) should be collected in a <floats-wrap> at the end of the <article>.

Boxed Text

Any object (<fig>, <table>, <media>) contained within boxed text must have the specified value @position="anchor".

Set any copyright information that is included in the source material into a <copyright-statement> and <copyright-year> tags. This information may be in a page header or footer or immediately following the abstract.

Copyright Information usually consists of the word "Copyright", a copyright symbol, the copyright year, and the name of the copyright holder. It might also contain notes, such as Disclaimers.

Include the complete copyright statement (with the date and symbol), in <copyright-statement>. The year of copyright should also be tagged in <copyright-year>, whether or not it appears as part of the <copyright-statement>.

Also include any statement about permissions in the <copyright-statement>

<permissions>
  <copyright-statement>Copyright &#169; 2005, Medical Publishing
    Corp.</copyright-statement>
  <copyright-year>2005</copyright-year>
</permissions>

<permissions>
  <copyright-statement>Copyright &#169; Medical Publishing
    Corp.</copyright-statement>
  <copyright-year>2005</copyright-year>
</permissions>

Dates

There are two date elements, <date> and <pub-date>. The date model is the same for both. It allows parsed date information (<day>, <month>, <season>, <year>).

The content of <day>, <month>,and <year> should all be integers.

<season> is text.

Month ranges (April-June) should be set in <season>. Do not set the year in <season>. Month ranges should use 3-letter abbreviations separated by an en-dash (U2013).

Received: January 14, 2005

<date date-type="received">
  <day>14</day>
  <month>1</month>
  <year>2005</year>
</date>

Spring-Summer 1999

<pub-date pub-type="ppub">
  <season>Spring-Summer</season>
  <year>1999</year>
</pub-date>

October, 1999

<pub-date pub-type="collection">
  <month>10</month>
  <year>1999</year>
</pub-date>

Apr–Jun 2000

<pub-date pub-type="ppub">
  <season>Apr&#x2013;Jun</season>
  <year>2000</year>
</pub-date>

Disclaimers

Tag as <notes> in front matter with @notes-type="disclaimer".

The contents of articles or advertising in the journal are not to be construed as official statements or endorsements by the Medical Publishing Corp.

<notes notes-type="disclaimer"><p>The contents of articles or advertising in the
  journal are not to be construed as official statements or endorsements by the
  Medical Publishing Corp.</p></notes>

Display formula

Tag all <disp-formula> with MathML.

Although we would prefer to have all of the math tagged as MathML, it is acceptable to include images of formulas.

Use the <disp-formula> element so that the object can still be identified as a display formula (and referenced) in the article. <disp-formula> allows <graphic>, which should be used to call the image.

See Sample 2 for examples.

Display quote

Use <disp-quote> to tag all block quotes. This allows for visual separation of the quote from the surrounding text, and more accurate tagging, because block quotes generally do not contain textual markers such as quotation marks.

He goes on to integrate these essential histological observations with his knowledge of physiological mechanisms and theorizes on the information flow of cortical circuits. He states:

… it is evident that each a impulse causes the cortical cells to be bombarded by a succession of impulses, thus creating in them a constant state of facilitation, and eventually stimulating them to discharge their axons.

In these propositions, Lorente de Nó essentially describes the dynamic, rapid, and flexible operation of groups of cells, which Hebb would call “cell assemblies,” in a modern physiological framework.

 
<sec> 
  <p>He goes on to integrate these essential histological 
    observations with his knowledge of physiological mechanisms 
    and theorizes on the information flow of cortical circuits. 
    He states:</p> 
  <disp-quote> 
    <p>… it is evident that each a impulse causes 
      the cortical cells to be bombarded by a succession of impulses, 
      thus creating in them a constant state of facilitation, and 
      eventually stimulating them to discharge their axons.</p> 
  </disp-quote> 
  <p>In these propositions, Lorente de Nó 
    essentially describes the dynamic, rapid, and flexible 
    operation of groups of cells, which Hebb would 
    call “cell assemblies,” in a modern 
    physiological framework. </p> 
</sec>

DOCTYPE declaration

The root element is <article>.

Set the PUBLIC identifier to "-//NLM//DTD Journal Publishing DTD v2.3 200700202//EN".

Set the SYSTEM identifier to "journalpublishing.dtd".

<!DOCTYPE article PUBLIC "-//NLM//DTD Journal Publishing DTD v2.3 20070202//EN"
				"journalpublishing.dtd">

External Links

All external links should be tagged with <ext-link>.

URLs

Any Web link should be tagged with @ext-link-type="uri". The value of the @xlink:href should include the complete web address. The contents of the <ext-link> can be a repeat of the web address or any content that will be "hot".

GenBank

GenBank numbers should be tagged with @ext-link-type="entrez-genbank".

Figures

Figures are the article-level objects that (usually) contain a <graphic>. We need to distinguish between an object that is a figure and an image that needs to be displayed in place in the text.

Set as a <fig> with @position="float" any "figure" or image that

is named - like "Fig. 1" or "Schema IV" or even just "Figure". This name should be included in the <label>.
has a Title or Caption
is reference by an <xref> @ref-type="fig".

Set as <graphic> in a <p> or <sec> any image that must remain at the paragraph level.

Set as <inline-graphic> in a <p> any image that needs to be displayed in the flow of the text.

There is a rare occasion when a named figure (usually it is called something different, like "Scheme") needs to stay anchored in it's position in the text. There may be a <label> and <caption>. In these instances, use @position="anchor" on <fig>. Figures that appear inside appendices (<app>) should also be tagged with @position="anchor".

Figure Groups

Figures should not be tagged together into <fig-group>. Each should have its own caption and <graphic> (if appropriate).

If you come across content that you think needs to be tagged as a <fig-group>, contact PMC.

See Sample 2 for examples.

Figures & Tables

Referenced figures and tables should be tagged at their first callout in the text. Unreferenced figures and tables should be tagged in <floats-wrap> at the end of the <article>. See Figures and Tables for more details.

Footnotes

Capture footnotes in relative proximity to the part of the article in which it is referenced. For instance, capture author footnotes in <author-notes> and footnotes that apply to the article as a whole in a <fn-group> in the article <back>.

See <fn-group>, <author-notes>, <fn>.

See Sample 2 for examples.

Generated Text

Generated text should not be tagged in the XML. This includes (but is not limited to) punctuation between multiple <xref> elements, numbers or letters in an ordered list that has no anomalies (1a, 1b, 2, etc), and punctuation in fully tagged <nlm-citation> elements.

Grant and Contract Information

Grant and contract information should be tagged in <contract-num> and <contract-sponsor> to build article metadata. Any prose that describes this information (e.g., "Part of the research at Stanford was supported by NIH GM61374.") should be tagged in an article-level footnote.

Inline formula

Most <inline-formula> can be tagged with XML elements and Unicode characters.

Only tag inline math in MathML if it cannot be represented with regular elements. For example, any radical or built fraction.

See Sample 2 for examples.

Inline images

Set as <graphic> in a <p> or <sec> any image that must remain at the paragraph level.

Set as <inline-graphic> in a <p> any image that needs to be displayed in the flow of the text.

See Figures for more details.

Inline tabular material

Tag inline tabular material (anchored tables ) with @position="anchor" .

See Tables for more details.

Journal Information

Complete journal information should be included in <journal-meta> in each article. See <journal-meta> for the necessary elements.

Labels

<label> can appear in most any object. Set the label whenever possible except in <list-item>.

Do not format the content in a label; all formatting will be supplied on the rendering side. Do no include <sup>, <bold>, or <italic> (either inside <label><sup>4<sup><label> or outside <sup><label>4<label><sup>) in an attempt to match the style of the label in the manuscript.

Licensing Information

Licensing information should not be confused with Copyright Information. Copyright Information covers who owns the content, and Licensing Information covers how it may be used. The example from the tag library is good. It has three parts: 1. a description or name of the license type in @license-type="open-access", 2. A specific reference to a published definition of the details of the license with @xlink:href="http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0/", and 3. a text description of the license in the content of <license>.

Licensing information should be captured in <permissions>.

<permissions>
  <copyright-statement>Copyright &#169; 2005 Medical
    Publishing Corp.</copyright-statement>
  <copyright-year>2005</copyright-year>
  <license license-type="open-access"
    xlink:href="http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0/">
    <p>This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the
      Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use,
      distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original
      work is properly cited.</p>
  </license>
</permissions>

Lists

Use the <list> only to represent content in lists. Do not use it for formatting.

There are labeled and unlabeled lists. These styles are controlled by the @list-type. The labels will be applied based on the @list-type. Do not set the labels in the <list-item>. The only exception to this is when a list must start with a particular value. In this case, set the <label> on each <list-item>.

A <list> may be included in the contents of a <list-item> to build a multi-level list or outline.

See <list>.

Methods Section

All Methods sections in the <body> (with titles like "Methods", "Materials and Methods", "Experimental Procedures", "Procedures") should have @sec-type="methods".

Do not use @sec-type for sections inside <abstract>.

Notes in Proof

Tag as <notes> in back matter with @notes-type="note-in-proof".

Processing Instructions

The following Processing Instruction(s) can be used for PubMed Central articles:

Release Delay

Use the PI <?release-delay x|y ?> to set the release delay for an individual article. The article-level delay will override any delay defined in PMC on the journal level.

x is the number of months in the delay
y is the number of days in the delay

Both a "month" and "day" value should be included in each PI. Use "0" for "0".

<?release-delay 6|0 ?> — a delay of 6 months.
<?release-delay 0|14 ?> — a delay of 2 weeks.
<?release-delay 12|0 ?> — a delay of 1 year.
<?release-delay 0|0 ?> — no delay (this is useful for immediate-release articles in a journal that normally has a delay set.
<?release-delay 3|15 ?> — a delay of 3 months and 15 days.

Questions & Answers

There is not a specific set of elements for tagging Questions & Answers. Use <list> with @list-content="QandA".

Include each question/answer in a <list-item>. Use the @list-type to set the number style, bullets, or simple (unlabeled).

Question: How many feet in a mile?

Answer: 5280

<list list-content="QandA">
  <list-item>
    <p content-type="question">How many feet in a mile?<p>
    <p content-type="answer">5280<p>
  </list-item>
</list>

1. How many feet in a mile?

5280

2. How many kilometers in a mile?

1.609344

<list list-content="QandA" list-type="order">
  <list-item>
    <p content-type="question">How many feet in a mile?<p>
    <p content-type="answer">5280<p>
  </list-item>
  <list-item>
    <p content-type="question">How many kilometers in a mile?<p>
    <p content-type="answer">1.609344.<p>
  </list-item>
</list>

1. What is the recommended daily dosage?

a. 2 mg b. 12 mg

c. 16 mg d. 5000 mg

Answer: 12 mg

<list list-type="order" list-content="QandA">
  <list-item>
    <p content-type="question">What is the recommended daily dosage?
      <list list-type="alpha-lower">
        <list-item><p>2 mgv</p></list-item>
        <list-item><p>12 mg</p></list-item>
        <list-item><p>16 mg</p></list-item>
        <list-item><p>5000 mg</p></list-item>
      </list>
    </p>
    <p content-type="answer">12 mg</p>
  <list-item>
</list>

References

A <ref-list> is a set of <ref>. Generally each <ref> contains a single <citation> or <nlm-citation>. See Sample PubMed Central Citations for fully-tagged examples of citations.

Multiple citations in one ref

6. (a) De Albuquerque IL, Galeffi C, Casinovi CG, Marini-Bettolo GB. Gazz Chim Ital.

1964;94:287. (b) Alcantara, A. F. de C.;Souza, MR.; Pilo-Veloso, D. Fitoterapia. 2000;71:613.

<ref id="R6">
  <label>6</label>
  <citation citation-type="journal">
    <label>(a)</label>
    <person-group person-group-type="author">
      <name>
        <surname>De Albuquerque</surname>
        <given-names>I. L.</given-names>
      </name>
      <name>
        <surname>Galeffi</surname>
        <given-names>C.</given-names>
      </name>
      <name>
        <surname>Casinovi</surname>
        <given-names>C. G.</given-names>
      </name>
      <name>
        <surname>Marini-Bettolo</surname>
        <given-names>G. B.</given-names>
      </name>
    </person-group>
    <source>Gazz. Chim. Ital.</source>
    <year>1964</year>
    <volume>94</volume>
    <fpage>287</fpage>
  </citation>
  <citation citation-type="journal">
    <label>(b)</label>
    <person-group person-group-type="author">
      <name>
        <surname>Alcantara</surname>
        <given-names>A. F. de C.</given-names>
      </name>
      <name>
        <surname>Souza</surname>
        <given-names>M. R.</given-names>
      </name>
      <name>
        <surname>Pilo-Veloso</surname>
        <given-names>D.</given-names>
      </name>
    </person-group>
    <source>Fitoterapia</source>
    <year>2000</year>
    <volume>71</volume>
    <fpage>613</fpage>
  </citation>
</ref>

Notes or end notes in a ref

9. The addition of water (100 mol %) afforded the cyclic ether 2 in quantitative yield and with excellent selectivity (entry 4). This further supports the notion that triethylsilyl bromide is not the active catalyst.

<ref id="R9">
  <label>9</label>
  <note>
    <p>The addition of water (100 mol %) afforded the cyclic ether
      <bold>2</bold> in quantitative yield and with excellent selectivity
      (entry 4). This further supports the notion that triethylsilyl bromide is
      not the active catalyst.</p>
  </note>
</ref>

Note with a citation

8. For an alternative mechanistic proposal that suggests the triethylsilyl bromide formed from triethylsilane and bismuth tribromide behaves as a Lewis acid catalyst, see: Bajwa JS, Jiang X, Slade J, Prasad K, Repic O, Blacklock TJ. Tetrahedron Lett. 2002;43:6709.

<ref id="R8">
  <label>8</label>
  <note>
    <p>For an alternative mechanistic proposal that suggests the triethylsilyl 
      bromide formed from triethylsilane and bismuth tribromide behaves as a Lewis
      acid catalyst, see: <citation citation-type="journal">
      <person-group person-group-type="author">
        <name>
          <surname>Bajwa</surname>
          <given-names>J. S.</given-names>
        </name>
        <name>
          <surname>Jiang</surname>
          <given-names>X.</given-names>
        </name>
        <name>
          <surname>Slade</surname>
          <given-names>J.</given-names>
        </name>
        <name>
          <surname>Prasad</surname>
          <given-names>K.</given-names>
        </name>
        <name>
          <surname>Repic</surname>
          <given-names>O.</given-names>
        </name>
        <name>
          <surname>Blacklock</surname>
          <given-names>T. J.</given-names>
        </name>
      </person-group>
      <source>Tetrahedron Lett.</source>
      <year>2002</year>
      <volume>43</volume>
      <fpage>6709</fpage>
      </citation>
    </p>
  </note>
</ref>

Note with citations and text mixed

17. Chatterjee AK, Morgan JP, Scholl M, Grubbs RH. J Am Chem Soc. 2000;122:3783. For a recent review on olefin cross-metathesis, see: Connon SJ, Blechert S. Angew Chem Int Ed. 2003;42:1900.

<ref id="R17">
  <label>17</label>
  <note>
    <p>
      <citation citation-type="journal">
        <person-group person-group-type="author">
          <name>
            <surname>Chatterjee</surname>
            <given-names>A. K.</given-names>
          </name>
          <name>
            <surname>Morgan</surname>
            <given-names>J. P.</given-names>
          </name>
          <name>
            <surname>Scholl</surname>
            <given-names>M.</given-names>
          </name>
          <name>
            <surname>Grubbs</surname>
            <given-names>R. H.</given-names>
          </name>
        </person-group>
        <source>J. Am. Chem. Soc.</source>
        <year>2000</year>
        <volume>122</volume>
        <fpage>3783</fpage>
      </citation>
      For a recent review on olefin cross-metathesis, see:
        <citation citation-type="journal">
          <person-group person-group-type="author">
            <name>
              <surname>Connon</surname>
              <given-names>S. J.</given-names>
            </name>
            <name>
              <surname>Blechert</surname>
              <given-names>S.</given-names>
            </name>
          </person-group>
          <source>Angew. Chem. Int. Ed.</source>
          <year>2003</year>
          <volume>42</volume>
          <fpage>1900</fpage>
        </citation>
    </p>
  </note>
</ref>

Articles directly related to the current content should be tagged as <related-article>. These typically appear in corrections and commentaries.

Response and Sub-Article

A <response> is a direct response or answer to a question or proposed topic presented in the parent <article>. Usually a <response> cannot stand on its own, requiring the parent <article> to provide necessary context for the content.

A <sub-article> is content written on the same topic as the parent <article>, but is not a direct answer to it. Understanding its content is not dependent on the context provided by the parent <article>.

Each <response> and <sub-article> must contain its own front matter. In most cases, the abbreviated model in <front-stub> is sufficient for properly tagging both. Each <response> and <sub-article> inherits any front matter not explicitly tagged in <front-stub> from its parent <article>.

Each <response> must specify the @response-type and each <sub-article> must specify @article-type.

Fully-tagged samples of both <response> and <sub-article> are available in a compressed zip file or individually here:

Article with multiple responses

Discussion question with arguments for and against [PDF]
Article with multiple sub-articles

Collection of letters received on the same topic [PDF]
Article with single sub-article containing a single response

Research article with a commentary, author's response to the commentary [PDF]
Article with multiple levels of sub-article

Errata to a meeting report [PDF]

Sections/Subsections

Sections and subsections are identifiable by their titles or labels. If an article does not have a labeled or titled opening section, do not tag one in the XML. Where possible, identify @sec-type.

Introduction

Planning in advance is widely encouraged as a way to improve quality of care at the end of life.1 Cross cultural studies have shown that healthcare providers and patients often differ in their views on health related matters....

Methods

We carried out a focused ethnographic study8 within a care programme for elderly people in east Baltimore, United States. For the past 20 years this programme has provided medical and nursing care to generally frail housebound elderly people (mean age 77 years) in a largely working class community.

<body>
  <sec sec-type="intro">
    <title>Introduction</title>
      <p>Planning in advance is widely encouraged as a way to improve quality
        of care at the end of life.<xref ref-type="bibr" id="R1">1</xref>
        Cross cultural studies have shown that healthcare providers and patients
        often differ in their views on health related matters....</p>
  </sec>
  <sec sec-type="methods">
    <title>Methods</title>
      <p>We carried out a focused ethnographic study
        <xref ref-type="bibr" id="R1">8</xref> within a care programme
        for elderly people in east Baltimore, United States. For the past 20
        years this programme has provided medical and nursing care to
        generally frail housebound elderly people (mean age 77 years) in a
        largely working class community.</p>

It has now been 50 years since Briggs and King...published their paper showing that normal hatched tadpoles can be obtained by transplanting the nucleus of a blastula cell to the enucleated eggs of Rana pipiens. This finding provided an initial answer to the long-standing question of whether the process of development and cell differentiation requires a loss or stable change in the genetic constitution of cells....

Amphibia

Briggs and King's immediate pursuit of their 1952 breakthrough gave the somewhat surprising result that, whereas blastula nuclei supported normal tadpole development in up to 40% of all tests, gastrula nuclei were markedly less successful. By the tail-bud stage, nuclei of the endoderm (and in later work nuclei of other germ layers) gave only abnormal embryo development ..., even though the nuclei of tail-bud germ cells gave a high proportion of tadpole development....

<body>
  <p>It has now been 50 years since Briggs and King...published their paper
    showing that normal hatched tadpoles can be obtained by transplanting the
    nucleus of a blastula cell to the enucleated eggs of Rana pipiens. This 
    finding provided an initial answer to the long-standing question of whether
    the process of development and cell differentiation requires a loss or
    stable change in the genetic constitution of cells....</p>
<sec>
  <title>Amphibia</title>
    <p>Briggs and King's immediate pursuit of their 1952 breakthrough gave
      the somewhat surprising result that, whereas blastula nuclei supported
      normal tadpole development in up to 40% of all tests, gastrula nuclei were
      markedly less successful. By the tail-bud stage, nuclei of the endoderm
      (and in later work nuclei of other germ layers) gave only abnormal embryo
      development ..., even though the nuclei of tail-bud germ cells gave a high
      proportion of tadpole development....</p>

Signatures

Signature blocks should be captured in <sig-block> with each signature tagged in its own <sig>.

See Sample 3 for an example.

Denton A. Cooley, MD, Surgeon-in-Chief,

Texas Heart Institute at

St. Luke's Episcopal Hospital,

Houston

<sig-block>
  <sig>Denton A. Cooley, MD<break/>
    President, Texas Heart Institute at St. Luke's 
    Episcopal Hospital, Houston</sig>
</sig-block>

Supplementary Material

Supplementary material is treated as an article-level object (like <fig> or <table-wrap>). If it is referenced, it must have an @id. It may have a <label>.

See Sample 2 for examples.

Tables

Tables are the article-level objects that contain tabular material - usually in a <table-wrap>. We need to distinguish between an object that is a table and a content that must be displayed in tabular form in the flow of the text.

Set as a <table-wrap> with @position="float" any "table" that

is named - like "Table II" or even just "Table". This name should be included in the <label>.
has a Title or Caption
is reference by an <xref> @ref-type="table".

There are occasions when a named table needs to stay anchored in it's position in the text. There may be a <label> and <caption>. In these instances, use @position="anchor". Tables that appear inside an appendix (<app>) are examples of tables whose @position="anchor".

Set as <array> in a <p> or <sec> any tabular material that must remain at the paragraph level.

Table Groups

Tables should not be tagged together into <table-wrap-group>.

If you come across content that you think needs to be tagged as a <table-wrap-group>, contact PMC.

See Sample 2 for examples.

Table Coloring and Shading

Coloring and shading within table rows and cells should only be used to convey information. Background and font colors can be set within the elements <td>, <tr> and <th> using @content-type attribute.

For text color: <td content-type="color:#990099">1R</td>
For background shading: <tr content-type="background-color:#CCCCFF"></tr>
For both: <th content-type="background-color:#66FFFF;color:#003300">Cadaver</th>

Use hexadecimal color codes in the attribute.