Abbreviation, acronym, or emoticon used in the text of a document, possibly including an expansion of the acronym.

Short form of the title of the journal in which an article is published.

Summarized description of the content of a document or document component.

This element is deprecated; avoid using it. Use <date-in-citation>.

Textual material that names the parties who the author wishes to thank or recognize for their assistance in, for example, producing the work, funding the work, inspiring the work, or assisting in the research on which the work is based.

One physical or logical line of an address.

Container element for contact information such as a postal address for a person or organization.

Name of an institution or organization (for example, university, corporation) with which a contributor is affiliated.

Container element to hold two or more representations of a single affiliation (for example, the name of a university in two or more languages such as both German and English).

A flag indicating that the document content can be read or viewed at its current location by any user without payment or authentication.

A reference to a URI that carries the license terms specifying how a work may be used.

Word or phrase used to provide a very short textual name, description, or purpose-statement for a structure such as a graphic or figure.

An alternative or different version of the title of a work.

Container element used to hold a group of processing alternatives, for example, a single <graphic> that ships in several formats (tif, gif, and jpeg) or in different resolutions. This element is a physical grouping to contain multiple logically equivalent (substitutable) versions of the same information object. Typically these are processing alternatives, and the reader is expected to see only one version of the object.

Commentary, summary, review, or similar non-bibliographic information concerning the cited work.

Placeholder for the name of a contributor where the actual name is unknown or not disclosed.

Additional material added to a document that typically follows the body of the document. This is ancillary or supporting material, not a direct continuation of the text of the document.

Container element for one or more appendices (<app> elements).

Tabular arrangement of text in the narrative flow of the document. Unlike a <table-wrap>, an array does not contain a label, title, caption, or table headings (column heads).

A journal article.

Container element for elements that may be used to group articles into related clusters, for example, by subject matter or by series.

Unique external identifier assigned to an article.

Container element for information concerning the article that identifies or describes the article.

Full title of an article.

Container element for information concerning the origin of an extract, display quote, poetry, or similar element.

Textual material associated with a contributor.

Container element for notes about the article’s contributors.

Container element for information concerning one award under which the work (or the research on which the work was based) was supported.

Unique identifier assigned to an award, contract, or grant.

Material published with an article but following the narrative flow.

Biographical data concerning a contributor or the description of a collaboration.

Main textual portion of the document that conveys the narrative content.

Used to mark text that should appear in bold face.

Textual material that is part of the body but is outside the flow of the narrative text (for example, a sidebar).

An explicit line break in the text.

Container element for the textual description that is associated with an object (for example, with a <fig> or <table-wrap>).

Title of a cited book chapter.

Chemical expression, reaction, equation, etc. that is set apart within the text.

Wrapper element for a chemical expression, reaction, equation, etc. that is set apart from the text; includes any number, label, or caption that accompanies the chemical expression.

Holds alternative versions of a single citation, for example, the same citation in multiple languages or a single citation tagged as both a <mixed-citation> complete with punctuation and spacing preserved and as an <element-citation> with punctuation and spacing removed.

The name of a city.

A container element for technical content such as programming language code, pseudo-code, schemas, or a markup fragment.

The description of one column of a table, used to provide attributes relating to a specific column. If there is no <col> these attributes will be inherited from the associated <colgroup>. (This element is based on and intended to be converted easily to the XHMTL col element.)

A container element to hold column descriptions (element <col>) for a group of columns in a table—or for all of the columns in the table if there is only one <colgroup> in the table. Attributes on the <colgroup> apply to all of the columns in the group unless over-ridden on the <col>. (This element is based on and intended to be converted easily to the XHMTL colgroup element.)

Group of contributors credited under a single name; includes an organization credited as a contributor.

Wrapper element for more than one version of a single collaboration, such as the name of a laboratory in more than one language, for example, a laboratory name in Japanese Kana characters and a transliterated form of the laboratory name in the Latin alphabet.

Container element for unstructured text within a bibliographic reference.

Wrapper element for multi-part keywords (for example, a code and its meaning).

Individual component of a multi-part keyword (for example, a code, the code’s meaning).

Wrapper element to hold all the parts of a multi-part subject (for example, a subject term and the code representing that term).

Individual component of a multi-part subject (for example, subject term, code for the term).

Short, popular, or jargon name for a conference (for example, Extreme for Extreme Markup Languages, SIGGRAPH for Special Interest Group on Computer Graphics).

Date(s) on which a conference was held.

Physical location(s) of a conference (for example, city, country, campus, organization location).

Full name of a conference, including any qualifiers such as 43rd Annual.

Sequential number of a conference.

One organization identified as a sponsor of a conference.

Theme, slogan, or major subject area of a conference.

Container element to contain information about a single conference and its proceedings.

Container element for information about a single author, editor, or other contributor.

Container element for one or more contributors and information about those contributors.

One identifier for a person such as a contributor or principal investigator. This element will hold an ORCID, a trusted publisher’s identifier, a JST (Japan Science and Technology Agency) identifier, or an NII (National Individual Identifier).

Name of the organizational or personal entity that holds a copyright.

Copyright notice or statement, suitable for printing or display.

The year of copyright.

Information concerning how and with whom to correspond about an article.

Generic count element to count anything a NISO JATS user organization may wish to count in a document. The @count-type attribute will name what is being counted (such as footnotes, tables, sections, contributors, images, etc.) The @count attribute will state how many of the objects are in the document.

Country name used within an address.

Container element for counts of a document (for example, number of tables, number of figures, number of words).

Wrapper element for a single piece of metadata not otherwise defined in the Tag Suite.

Container element for metadata not otherwise defined in the Tag Suite.

The formal title or name of a cited data source (or a component of a cited data source) such as a dataset or spreadsheet.

Container element for the parts of a single calendar date.

Non-publication date used within a bibliographic reference. Replaces deprecated elements <access-date> and <time-stamp>.

Numeric, two-digit value of the day of the month.

Definition, explanation, or expansion of a word, phrase, or abbreviation.

Heading over the second column (the definition column) of a definition list (two-part list).

One item in a definition (two-part) list.

List in which each item consists of two parts: 1) a word, phrase, term, graphic, chemical structure, or equation, that is paired with 2) one or more descriptions, discussions, explanations, or definitions of it.

Academic titles or professional certifications displayed following a personal name (for example, MD, PhD).

Mathematical equation, expression, or formula that is to be displayed as a block (callout) within the narrative flow.

Container element for equations or other mathematical expressions.

Extract or extended quoted passage from another work, usually made typographically distinct from surrounding text.

The full edition statement for a cited or referenced publication.

Bibliographic description of a work. Includes bibliographic reference elements only. Does not include untagged text, spacing, or punctuation.

Bibliographic identifier for a document that does not have traditional printed page numbers.

Electronic mail address of a person or institution.

Number of <disp-formula> elements that appear in the document.

A specified range of years that is named for an event, political ruler, or characterization of the timespan.

Indicator of the presence of unnamed contributors. Typically indicated in print with the text et al. or with an ellipsis.

Link to an external file or resource.

Portion of an address that contains a fax number.

Block of graphic or textual material that is identified as a figure, usually bearing a caption and a label such as Figure 3. or Figure.

Number of <fig> elements that appear in the document.

Container element for figures that are to be displayed together.

Used to mark text in which the case of the content should not be changed, even if the content around it is styled to all upper case or all lower.

Container element for floating objects (figures, tables, text boxes, graphics, etc.) that occur within an article. Occurs outside of the narrative flow of the article.

Additional information tied to a particular location in the text. This material is not considered to be part of the body of the text, but is a note used instead of, in addition to, as a source for, or as a commentary on either some body text or on an element in the metadata such as an author.

Container element for footnotes that appear at the end of the document.

Page number on which a document starts.

Container element for the metadata of an article and the journal in which it was published.

Reduced set of metadata for use in <sub-article> and <response>, both of which are contained within an article. Any metadata not explicitly tagged in the front-stub is inherited from <article-meta> in the enclosing article.

Container element for information about the funding of the research reported in the article (for example, grants, contracts, sponsors) and any open access fees for the article itself.

Agency or organization that funded the research on which a work was based.

Displayable prose statement that describes the funding for the research on which a work was based.

All given names of a person, such as the first name, middle names, maiden name if used as part of the married name, etc.

Section whose content is typically a list of terms and definitions, usually tagged as one or more two-part lists called <def-list>. Typically part of the back matter of a document.

Most characters in an XML document can be expressed as regular Unicode® codes. Characters not in the Unicode Standard tables have traditionally been expressed as explicit font calls (non-portable), created as inline graphics, or defined in one of the Unicode private-use areas where users may define their own characters. The <glyph-data> element is used when there is known to be no font available to render a private-use character. This element provides information on the actual glyph that is associated with the private-use character.

Once a private character has been declared using a <glyph-data> element, the character need not be defined with the same <glyph-data> element every time it is used. The character can be reused by using the <glyph-ref> element to point to the full <glyph-data> element. The pointing uses the ID/IDREF mechanism, using the @glyph-data attribute of the <glyph-ref> element to point to the @id attribute of an existing <glyph-data> element. Since the reference uses the ID/IDREF, the reference may precede or follow the element to which it is pointing.

Container element for the identification information (typically the title and/or an identification number) for a cited governmental report or other government publication.

Description of and pointer to an external file containing a still image.

Container element for dates related to the processing history of the document (for example, received date, accepted date).

An explicit horizontal rule.

Mathematical equation, expression, or formula that is to be displayed inline. The mathematics itself can be expressed as ASCII characters, as a graphic, or using TeX, LaTeX, or MathML mathematics expressions.

Description of and pointer to an external graphic that is displayed or set in the same line as the text.

Inline description of, and possibly a pointer to, an external file that provides supplementary information for the document.

Name of an institution or organization (for example, a university or corporation).

A externally defined institutional identifier, whether publisher-specific (for example AIP) or from an established identifying authority (for example, Ringgold or ISNI).

A wrapper element to hold both the name of an institution (<institution>) and any identifiers for that institution (<institution-id>), for example, an INSI or Ringgold ID.

International Standard Book Number, the international code for identifying a particular product form or edition of a publication, typically a monographic publication.

International Standard Serial Number, the international code that uniquely identifies a serial publication title.

An ISSN designated by an ISSN Centre to group together the different media versions of a work. Since a single ISSN-L is assigned no matter how many media formats of a work there are, the ISSN-L can be used to link among the different media versions of the work or continuing resource, for example, both the printed and online versions of the work.

Issue number of a journal, or in rare instances, a book.

Name or identifier of an entire journal issue (for example, a DOI).

Number, name, or other identifier of a sub-part of a journal issue.

Sponsor for an issue of the journal.

Theme or special title for a journal issue.

Used to mark text that should appear in an italic or slanted font.

Short code or abbreviation used as an identifier for a journal.

Container element for metadata about the journal in which the article was published.

Full subtitle of the journal in which the article was published.

Full title of the journal in which the article was published.

Container element for the titles of the journal in which the article was published.

A keyword is a finding aid used to record one subject term, key phrase, abbreviation, indexing word, taxonomic structure, or other expression that is associated with the whole structure (such as an article). Keywords can be used for identification, searching, and indexing purposes. A keyword element (<kwd>) may contain a repetition of words found in the structure or it may contain broader terms, narrower terms, related terms, or taxonomic identifiers used to find the structure in a search or provide semantic classification of the text by mapping a specific structure to a taxonomy.

Container element for one set of keywords (such as <kwd>s, <nested-kwd>s, or <compound-kwd>s) used to describe a document.

Number and/or prefix word placed at the beginning of display elements (for example, equation, statement, figure).

Set of conditions under which the content may be used, accessed, and distributed.

Paragraph of text within the description of a <license>.

Sequence of two or more items, which may or may not be ordered.

Single item (one entry) in a list of items.

Full description or summary of the content of an object such as a graphic, table, figure, or text box.

Page number on which a document ends.

Description of and pointer to an external file that holds a media object (for example, an animation, a movie).

Name of a single piece of metadata not otherwise defined in the Tag Suite.

Value of a single piece of metadata not otherwise defined in the Tag Suite.

End of a non-hierarchically nested object (for example, a textual component which cannot be expressed in the normal non-overlapping tree structure of an XML document).

Start of a non-hierarchically nested object (for example, a textual component which cannot be expressed in the normal non-overlapping tree structure of an XML document).

Bibliographic description of a work. Includes a combination of bibliographic reference elements and untagged text. Spacing and punctuation are preserved.

Use documentation for the Mathematical Markup Language (MathML) Tag Set (http://www.w3.org/TR/MathML3/ or http://www.w3.org/TR/MathML2/).

Used to mark text that should appear in a non-proportional font, such as courier.

Names one of the months of the year, such as July or 07.

Container element for the component elements of personal names, such as a <surname>.

Container element for more than one version of a personal name, the element <name> (for example, the name written in both Japanese Kana characters and the Latin alphabet).

Word or phrase whose content/subject matter has distinct semantics or content-related significance.

A hierarchically-structured keyword, such as a keywords from a taxonomy.

This element is deprecated; avoid using it. Use <element-citation>.

Non-citation content inside a bibliographic reference list.

Section-like container element for one or more notes that are not part of the narrative flow (for example, note added in proof, dedication).

Unique identifier (such as a DOI or URI) for a component within an article (for example, for a figure or a table).

When a contributor is acting as a representative of an organization, he/she is said to have written or edited a work on behalf of that organization or group, and this element holds the name of the organization or group.

Open access provisions that apply to a work or the funding information that provided the open access provisions.

Used to mark text that should appear with a horizontal line above each character.

Milestone indicating the end of overline emphasis.

Milestone indicating the beginning of overline emphasis.

Textual unit or block; a textual paragraph.

Total number of pages in a work in print; by convention, each page or partial page is counted as one. Electronic-only works do not traditionally have page counts.

Text describing discontinuous pagination (for example, 8-11, 14-19, 40).

Title of part of a book (for example, chapter, module) described in a bibliographic reference.

Identification information for a patent in a bibliographic reference or product.

Container element for copyright and license information.

Container element for one or more contributors in a bibliographic reference.

Portion of an address which contains a phone number.

A postal number such as a zip-code or postal code used to address physical mail.

Honorifics or other qualifiers that usually precede a person’s name (for example, Professor, Rev., President, Senator, Dr., Sir, The Honorable).

Text in which spaces, tabs, and line feeds must be preserved. Content is typically displayed in monofont to preserve character alignment.

Sale price or licensing fees of a work.

Individual(s) or institution(s) to whom the award was given (for example, the principal grant holder or the sponsored individual).

Individual(s) responsible for the intellectual content of the work reported in the document.

Custom character supplied by a publisher, or a custom character from the Unicode private-use area, for which a bitmap or other representation of the glyph is included in or with the XML. The glyph may be represented as an inline graphic, an explicit bitmap glyph, or a reference to a previously defined character.

Container element for the metadata concerning one product (for example, a book, software package, website, or hardware component) discussed in an article.

Container element for the parts of a single date associated with an article’s publication (for example, date preprint was released, date article was published in print).

Identifier of a publication in a bibliographic reference or product description.

Container element for information about the person, company, or other entity that published a work.

Place of publication, usually a city, such as New York or London.

Name of the person, company, or other entity that published a work.

This element is one half of a Ruby annotation (<ruby>), and it contains the narrative text in the document, which may be as short as a single character, to which a Ruby Textual Annotation (<rt>) should be applied.

One item in a bibliographic list.

Number of references or citations that appear in a bibliographic reference list.

List of bibliographic references for a document or document component.

Description of a journal article related to the content but published separately. May include a link to the related article.

Description of an object (for example, book chapter, figure, table) related to the content but published separately. May include a link to the related object.

Reply, response, or commentary concerning the journal article. In the typical case, the response is included in the same XML package as the original article, attached at the end of the article proper. Metadata that differs from that of the original article (for example, title, author), may be captured using the <front-stub> element; if the <front-stub> element is used, any metadata not specifically tagged is inherited from the original article.

Title or role of a contributor to a work (for example, editor-in-chief, chief scientist, photographer, research associate).

Used to mark text that should remain in roman script no matter what style the surrounding text takes on.

Used to provide spacing and a parenthesis to surround Ruby Text (<rt>), for older systems that do not handle Ruby formatting properly

This element is one half of a Ruby annotation (<ruby>), and it contains the text that annotates the material in the Ruby Base (<rb>), which may be a small as a single character.

An inline wrapper element that surrounds some of the document narrative text in the same way a bold or italic emphasis would. The <ruby> element contains a Ruby Base (<rb> element) which contains the document text and a Ruby Textual Annotation (<rt> element) that applies to that base text.

Used to mark text that should appear in a sans-serif font.

Used to mark text that should appear in a font that creates smaller capital letters.

Season of publication (for example, Spring, Third Quarter).

Headed group of material; the basic structural unit of the body of a document.

Container element for section-level metadata that is different from the parent document.

URI for another version of a document. This element may be used when the document is available in multiple forms (for example, printed article and in its expanded version with additional graphics available online).

Series information about a journal or book in a bibliographic reference or product.

Textual description of the series of articles that is named in a <series-title> element.

Title of the journal series (bibliographic) or series of articles internal to one issue of a journal

One contributor’s signature and associated material (such as a text restatement of the affiliation) inside a signature block.

Area of text and graphic material placed at the end of the body of a document or document component to hold the graphic signature or description of the person(s) responsible for or attesting to the content.

Size of a resource or object described in a bibliographic reference or product. The @units attribute must be used to name the units of measure (for example, minutes, hours, linear feet, pages).

Title of a document (for example, journal, book, conference proceedings) that contains (is the source of) the material being cited in a bibliographic reference or product.

One who utters one segment of a speech or dialog.

One exchange (a single speech) in a real or imaginary conversation between two or more entities.

The name of a state, province, territory or other political unit used in an address. This is a lower-level subdivision than a country, but higher than a city, county, or parish. The names for such a unit vary geopolitically.

Theorem, Lemma, Proof, Postulate, Hypothesis, Proposition, Corollary, or other formal statement, identified as such with a label and usually made typographically distinct from the surrounding text.

Identification information (typically the standard number, organization name, and title of the standard) for a cited standard, where standard is defined as a document produced by a recognized standards body such as NISO, IEEE, ISO, OASIS, ANSI, etc.

The name of the standards body that created or that promulgates a standard, such as NISO, ISO, ANSI, or industry standards organizations.

Used to mark text that should appear with a line through it so as to appear struck out.

Sequence and flow of an extended conference name (for example, The Learned Society’s Conference on What’s Hot at the University of Wherever on 21–27 July 2011).

Date represented as text.

Container element for personal names captured with mixed-content where the order of the name components is not enforced.

Stylistically distinct word or phrase within the text that cannot be tagged using any of the other mechanisms for such content. In other words, the content cannot be described with bold, italic, monospace or any of the other emphasis elements, and <named-content> is inappropriate because the semantic reason behind the typographic distinction is unknown or not clear.

Used to mark text that should appear lower than the baseline and slightly smaller; inferior or subscript text.

An article that is completely contained inside another article.

Container element for the subject matter designations describing a document’s content or a component document’s content. Subjects are used to organize documents into groupings (potentially hierarchical groupings) for display or print.

Name of one subject or topic used to describe an article. Such topics and groupings of topics are typically used to provide headings for groups of documents or document components in a printed, or online, generated Table of Contents.

Subordinate part of a title for a document or document component.

Qualifiers that follow a person’s name (for example, Sr., Jr., III, 3rd).

Used to mark text that should appear higher than the baseline and slightly smaller; superior or superscript text.

Container element for all information particular to a supplement or for any work published as a supplement (for example, identification numbers, supplement titles, supplement series information).

Container element for a description of, and possibly a pointer to, external resources that support the article, but which are not part of the content of the article.

Surname of a person.

The rows and columns part of a full table. (This element is based on and intended to be converted easily to the XHMTL table element.)

Number of <table-wrap> elements that appear in the document.

Wrapper element for a complete table, including the tabular material (rows and columns), caption (including title), footnotes, and alternative descriptions of the table for purposes of accessibility.

Container element to hold the footnotes, general notes, or other paragraphs at the end of a table. This element does not contain tabular data.

Container element for tables (<table-wrap> elements) that are to be displayed together.

Anchor or fixed location that acts as the target for a cross-reference.

Container element that holds the rows and columns in one of the body (as opposed to the header) portions of a table.

One ordinary cell in the body of a table, as opposed to a cell in the table header. (This element is based on and intended to be converted easily to the XHMTL td element.)

Word, phrase, graphic, chemical structure, equation, or other noun that is being defined or described.

This element is typically used in conjunction with a definition in a definition list (two-part list). The term occupies the first column of the two-part list and is the subject of the definition or description, which occupies the second column.

Heading over the first column (the term column) of a definition list (two-part list).

Used to hold encoded math, expressed in TeX or LaTeX.

This element holds text (mixed content) in places where alternatives can be presented, providing a textual alternative. For example, inside the <alternatives> wrapper element, a <textual-form> can provide an alternative version of an equation, graphic, or table. This alternative textual version may be a direct textual representation of an object (such as a Unicode value for a special character or the full text of an equation in ASCII characters), or a simplified textual version of the object (for display by devices not able to cope with the object), or a text-dump of the contents of a binary object (for example, the full text-dump of the cells of a table to accompany a graphic version of the table).

The footer rows and columns within a NISO JATS table. (This element is based on and intended to be converted easily to the XHMTL tfoot element.)

One cell in the table header, as opposed to an ordinary cell in the body of a table. (This element is based on and intended to be converted easily to the XHMTL th element.)

Container element for the table header rows of a table. (This element is based on and intended to be converted easily to the XHMTL thead element.)

This element is deprecated; avoid using it. Use <date-in-citation>.

Heading or title for a structural element (for example, <sec>, <app>, <boxed-text>).

Container element to hold the various titles for a document or a document component.

Container element for all the cells in a single table row. (This element is based on and intended to be converted easily to the XHMTL tr element.)

Abstract that has been translated into a language other than that in which the work was originally published.

Title of the source (for example, journal, book, conference proceedings) containing material being cited in a bibliographic reference or product, when the title is translated into a language other than that in which it was originally published.

Document or document component subtitle that has been translated into a language other than that of the original document or document component subtitle.

Title of a document or document part that has been translated into a language other than that of the original publication. When a document is published simultaneously in more than one language, one language must be chosen for the title and all other document titles become translated titles.

Container element for translated and transliterated titles.

Used to mark text that should appear with a horizontal line beneath it.

Milestone indicating the end of underlined text.

Milestone indicating the start of underlined text.

Container element for one set of keywords used to describe a document, where the individual keywords are not tagged as separate <kwd>s but instead are all run together in one long text field.

Identifies a Uniform Resource Identifier (such as a URL) that may be used as a live link, typically naming a website, such as: <uri>http://www.mulberrytech.com</uri>).

Song, poem, or verse.

One line of a poem or verse.

A full version statement, which may be only a number, for data or software that is cited or described

Number of a journal (or other document) within a series.

Name or identifier (for example, DOI) that describes an entire volume.

A grouping element to hold related volume and issue elements

Series number of a journal volume for the rare case where a single journal has multiple volumes with the same volume number.

The approximate number of words that appear in a document or document component.

Generated text or punctuation. Typically used when:

• an archive decides not to have text generated on display and thus to pre-generate such things as commas or semicolons between keywords, or

• an archive receives text with <x> tags embedded and wishes to retain them.

Reference to an object within the document (for example, a table, a bibliographic citation).

Representation, usually numerical, of a calendar year.