Specification of authors and their affiliations must be as simple and
intuitive as possible. Processing of the author and institute meta
fields is hence improved. The number of possible ways to input this data
is increased, improving flexibility and convenience for authors.
Meta data for authors and affiliations are uniformly treated as named
objects. Names can be given as a string, as via the key of a
single-element object, or explicitly as a name attribute of an
object. The following are hence equivalent:
author:
- John Doe:
institute: Agile Science Society
author:
- name: John Doe
institute: Agile Science Society
author:
- name: John Doe
institute:
- name: Agile Science Society
Institutes may be given separately. If institute is an object, the elements
therein can be referred to using their key.
author:
- John Doe:
institute: agsci
institute:
agsci: Agile Science Society
If institute is an array, numeric indices can be used instead.
author:
- John Doe:
institute: 1
institute:
- Agile Science Society
Scripts of the publishing pipeline are adapted accordingly.
Specification of authors and their affiliations must be as simple and intuitive as possible. Processing of the
authorandinstitutemeta fields is hence improved. The number of possible ways to input this data is increased, improving flexibility and convenience for authors.Meta data for authors and affiliations are uniformly treated as named objects. Names can be given as a string, as via the key of a single-element object, or explicitly as a
nameattribute of an object. The following are hence equivalent:Institutes may be given separately. If
instituteis an object, the elements therein can be referred to using their key.If
instituteis an array, numeric indices can be used instead.Scripts of the publishing pipeline are adapted accordingly.