NIHMS JATS 1.2 Tagging Guidelines: Introduction
This page provides detailed instructions for tagging article manuscripts in XML for submission to NIHMS beyond simply validating against the JATS DTD.
The NIH Manuscript Style Checker provides a detailed report of all items in an XML file that do not comply with NIHMS style. The report will list items as either warnings or errors.
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Tagging Guidelines Organization
The Tagging Guidelines are described in three separate sections. Each section describes separate rules that must be followed when creating NIHMS-compliant XML. Many of the rules are related and often contain links to other sections.
In addition to these three sections, all updates to the Tagging Guidelines are documented in the Update History.
General Tagging Practice
These style rules apply to structured data tagging at a very broad level and include formatted text, math, and special characters.
Document Objects
This section describes specific parts of XML documents like figures and author/affiliation relationships. It references specific elements and includes examples of XML tagging.
Elements
This section describes style rules for specific XML elements and their attributes. Only elements for which NIHMS has a style rule are described in this section. Refer to the Tag Library for descriptions of all elements available in the DTD.
Occasionally the Tagging Guidelines and the Tag Libraries have different tagging instructions or examples. In those cases, tag manuscripts to the examples in these Tagging Guidelines which always describe NIHMS's preferred style.