PubMed Central Tagging Guidelines


Introduction
General Tagging Practice
Document Objects
Elements
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DTD Version

Rule Selection
Hide All v2.3 Rules
Hide All v3.0 Rules


Tools & Resources
Style Checker
Fully-Tagged Samples
Fully-Tagged Citations
Email List
DTD Documentation

Update History

DateUpdate
2008 Nov 19Added style rules for v3.0.
2008 Jul 18Added disp-quote description and example in Document Objects Section.
2008 Apr 8Added @alternate-form-of description and example in Document Objects Section.
2008 Jan 14Added information for tagging languages to article pages.
2008 Jan 4Added rule for excluding <xref> from <subject>.
2007 Sep 24Added information for tagging an article-level release delay for PMC embargo using the Processing Instruction <?release-delay ?>.
2007 Aug 17Added information for tagging <corresp>.
2007 Jun 18Added example for <license>.
2007 May 14Removed Tagging Style section: Duplicate of intro text.
2007 Apr 30Updated version number for DTD, floating figures and tables rules; added section element.
2007 Mar 14Added details for tagging complex block affiliations.
2007 Mar 13Added tagging instructions for complex References such as a reference with more than one citation, notes, and notes with citations.
2007 Jan 17Updated rules for Signatures to reflect changes made in DTD v2.2
2006 Aug 8Specified related-article page attribute should only reference first page.
2006 Jul 19Added rule about not using <mml:math> to tag single characters.
2006 Jun 27Added rule about not using sec-type attribute for sections inside abstracts.
2006 Jun 26Added preferred capitalization of Title Case; Added response and sub-article samples.

Added rule for tagging xref ranges.
2006 Jun 20Updated DTD references to v2.2.
2006 Jun 16Added table color tagging.
2006 Jun 7<related-article> must have an @id for valid style, but this was left out of the documentation.
2006 May 15Added control character restriction; contain copyright and license in permissions; table attributes; position="anchor" for objects inside objects; product description; related-article description; response and sub-article descriptions. Modified samples to reflect style updates.

2006 Mar 23Added info about figures and tables being anchored inside appendices and not collected in display-objects section.
2006 Mar 9Added clarification to Author/Affiliation relationship.

2006 Feb 24Added contract/grant info dob; Updated Signatures dob to reflect new structure including named-content; Updated Sample 3 with new signature tagging; Added generated text dob.
2006 Jan 11Updated all DTD references to version 2.1.
2005 Dec 12Specified "Figures and Tables" as title for display-objects section.
2005 Dec 7Clarified tagging instructions for copyright-statement and copyright-year.
2005 Nov 18Updated dates example for month range to 3-letter abbreviations inside season.
2005 Nov 7Expanded Meeting Reports/Abstracts section and included example.
2005 Oct 27Added links to Online Style Checking tool.
2005 Sep 15Added an explicit statement about not using Unicode values from the Private Use Area.
2005 Sep 2Added fully-tagged XML articles in compressed zip and text versions for viewing in browser.
2005 Aug 26Tagging Guidelines available on the public site.