XML format
JATS article
The publishing interchange for journal articles, separating front matter, article body, and back matter such as references and acknowledgements.
JATS organizes a scholarly article into <front>, <body>, and <back>. The model carries journal metadata, contributors, affiliations, abstracts, sections, citations, figures, tables, funding, and machine-readable references.
Deployments select a tag set and version, commonly through a public identifier and DTD. JATS itself is usually namespace-free; extension vocabularies such as MathML and XLink introduce namespaces where needed.
- Choose the Archiving, Publishing, or Authoring tag set that matches the workflow.
- The DTD version and article-type profile determine which structures are valid.
- Inline and block alternatives may carry both textual and graphic representations.
- Reference links depend on stable IDs and rid targets, so ID integrity matters across transformations.
- Root element
<article>- Media type
application/xml- Extensions
.xml- Namespaces
- None — unqualified elements
- XMLDir label
xml
Specification: NISO JATS
A minimal valid document
Every example on this site is checked against the same parser the workspace uses, so what you see below is known to be well-formed.
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<article article-type="research-article" dtd-version="1.4">
<front><article-meta><title-group><article-title>XML pipelines</article-title></title-group></article-meta></front>
<body><sec id="s1"><title>Methods</title><p>Documents were validated before extraction.</p></sec></body>
<back><ref-list><title>References</title></ref-list></back>
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