Author footnotes

[fred-atherden]

Additional custom footnotes occasionally required to denote special statuses on the author list (e.g. ‘Authors listed in alphabetical order’).

User Stories

Author

• [ ] As an author, I want to be able to add a footnote to authors so that I can list non-standard information about them.
• [ ] As an author, I want to be able to remove an author footnote so that I correct errors.

Production staff

But what if . . . ?

Considerations

• These are specifically to cover information that cannot be captured in a more semantic manner. The example we usually go to for this is 'Authors are listed in alphabetical order.'
• At eLife, we dislike using these but they are a publishing convention and we accept that they are going to be required.

XML requirements

Miscellaneous footnotes contained in <author-notes> which are a child of <article-meta>. The content is captured in a <fn fn-type=”other”> element:

<article-meta>
    ...
    <contrib-group content-type="author">
        <contrib  contrib-type="author">
            <name>
                <surname>Atherden</surname>
                <given-names>Frederick P</given-names>
            </name>
            <xref ref-type="fn" rid="fn1">§</xref>
        </contrib>
        ...
    </contrib-group>
    …
    <author-notes>
        <fn fn-type="other" id="fn1">
            <label>§</label>
            <p>Author order was determined both alphabetically and in order of increasing seniority.</p>
        </fn>
    </author-notes>
    …
</article-meta>

PMC guidance:

Example from the JATS documentation:

Taken from: https://github.com/elifesciences/TextureRequirements/issues/16

[NickDuf]

• See inVision files for author footnote