<contrib>

Appears in	Frequency
<contrib-group>	One or more times

Identifies individual, institutional or group data of the contributors to the article, who may even be anonymous. The elements <contrib-id>, <name>, <collab>, <on-behalf-of>, <xref>, <role>, <email>, <names-alternatives> and <anonymous> can be in this element.

The attribute @contrib-type is not mandatory, it defines the type of contribution and can have the values outlined below:

Value	Description
person	Any person involved with the article production
group	Any group of person related to a context, institution, department, etc

Note

When a contrib is defined as group it must have an element <collab> inside specifing the name or context of the group. To identify the group it could be made using the element <element-named-content> with the attribute @content-type equal name.

Note

The elements <aff> and <element-aff-alternatives> are not allowed in <contrib-group>

Note

Some of the refered rules are based on JATS4M specifications.

Example:

...
<article-meta>
  ...
  <contrib-group content-type="author">
    <contrib contrib-type="person">
      <name>
        <surname>Church</surname>
        <given-names>Deanna Mary</given-names>
      </name>
      <xref ref-type="aff" rid="aff1"/>
    </contrib>
    <contrib contrib-type="group">
      <collab>
        <named-content content-type="name">The Mouse Genome Sequencing Consortium</named-content>
        <contrib-group>
          <contrib>
            <name>
              <surname>Kelly</surname>
              <given-names>Laura Ane</given-names>
            </name>
          </contrib>
          <contrib>
            <name>
              <surname>Randall</surname>
              <given-names>Daniel Lee</given-names>
              <suffix>Jr.</suffix>
            </name>
          </contrib>
        </contrib-group>
      </collab>
    </contrib>
  </contrib-group>
  ...
</article-meta>
...