Contributor roles

Cature the specific role of an author or editor in a role child of the contrib element.

The author role must be the role that the author took in the creation of the paper, rather than the author's role at the institution. For clarification on use of the role element, contact the OUP Digital Content Delivery team.

Example values (for contrib contrib-type="author") are:

Principal Author
Researcher

In a journal article, when the contributor is an editor (contrib contrib-type="editor"), a role child element must be captured. If no specific editor role is provided, the value of role must be Editor.

The allowed values of role (for contrib contrib-type="editor" in a journal article) are:

Associate Editor
Conference Editor
Corresponding Editor
Decision Editor
Editor
Editor-in-Chief
Guest Editor
Handling Editor
Managing Editor
Section Editor
Special Issue Editor
Subject Editor

Editor role

<contrib-group> 
  <contrib contrib-type="editor">
    <name name-style="western">
     <surname>Boddy</surname>
     <given-names>Amy M</given-names>  
    </name>
   <role>Editor</role>
  </contrib>
</contrib-group>