On Behalf of

[fred-atherden]

An 'on behalf of statement' appears at the end of the author list stating that the authors are writing on behalf of a larger group.

User Stories

Author

• As an author, I want to be able to see any 'on behalf of' statement on the author list so that I can check it is correct.
• As an author, I want to be able to add an 'on behalf of' statement to my author list so that I can acknowledge the authors are acting on behalf of a larger group.
• As an author, I want to be able to edit the 'on behalf of' statement so that I can correct errors.
• As an author, I want to be able to remove an 'on behalf of' statement so that I can delete this is required.

Production staff

But what if . . . ?

Considerations

• Example of how this works on the website: "Manoj M Lalu, Katrina J Sullivan, Shirley HJ Mei, David Moher, Alexander Straus, Dean A Fergusson, Duncan J Stewart, Mazen Jazi, Malcolm MacLeod, Brent Winston, John Marshall, Brian Hutton, Keith R Walley, Lauralyn McIntyre, on behalf of the Canadian Critical Care Translational Biology Group"

• The full text contained in the tag is important here, as there are several different ways of phrasing this that need to be accounted for:

  • "for the HIV Genome-to-Genome Study and the Swiss HIV Cohort Study" (https://elifesciences.org/articles/01123)
  • "on behalf of the SPARTAC trial investigators" (https://elifesciences.org/articles/03821)

• eLife currently only allows this at the end of the authors list. However, other publishers may want to include this after specific authors in the middle of the author list instead, and indeed, we might change how we handle this in the future.

XML requirements

A on-behalf-of element, the content of which is usually just a normal string (but may be mixed-content), is placed as a sibling to an author, in the contrib-group e.g.

<contrib-group content-type="author">
     ...
     <contrib contrib-type="author">
          <name>
               <surname>Atherden</surname>
               <given-names>Frederick P</given-names>
          </name>
          ...
     </contrib>
     <on-behalf-of>on behalf of the Canadian Critical Care Translational Biology Group</on-behalf-of>
</contrib-group>

Taken from: https://github.com/elifesciences/TextureRequirements/issues/19

[NickDuf]

See inVision for design proposal