Corresponding author status

[fred-atherden]

Description

One or more authors in the author list will be designated as corresponding author.

User stories

Author

• (1) As an author, I want to be able to see which authors have been designated as corresponding authors so that I can check this has been done correctly.

Production staff

• (2) As production staff, I want to be able to remove corresponding author status from an author so that I can correct this information if requested.
• (3) As production staff, I want to be able to add corresponding author status to an author so that I can correct this information if requested.

But what if . . . ?

• What if the corresponding author who has been sent the proof in the first place needs to have corresponding author status removed?

Considerations

• At the moment at eLife, only one (of possibly many) corresponding author will be the recipient for the proof; if there are other corresponding authors, they do not receive copies of the proof and cannot submit it back to us. We in-house refer to the recipient of the proof as the primary corresponding author. They are designated as ‘corresponding author for proofs’ in the eJP XML output.
• Sometimes the primary corresponding author will be unavailable, so it might be useful to be able to change who has been given that status on the fly to avoid delays.
• For eLife, only corresponding authors should have email addresses (emails covered in #1260).
• For Érudit, one or more authors can have the status of corresponding author (at the moment, all authors with an email address are treated as @corresp="yes"). Please add any additional requirements you may have.

XML requirements

ndicated with the attribute corresp="yes" on the contrib element, e.g.

<contrib corresp="yes">
   <name>
        <surname>Atherden</surname>
        <given-names>Frederick P</given-names>
   </name>
       ...
</contrib>

Group authors can also be corresponding:

<contrib corresp="yes">
       <collab>Reproducibility Project: Cancer Biology
            <contrib-group>
       …
            </contrib-group>
      </collab>
</contrib>

Mock ups

Proposal