Conflict of Interest Statements

Capture specific conflict of interest statements in a fn element within author-notes. Capture the fn element with a fn-type="conflict".

/article/front/article-meta/author-notes/fn

Capture an empty xref element within the contrib element for contributors with that conflict of interest information. Its ref-type attribute value is fn and its rid attribute value is the id value of the associated fn element.

Conflict of Interest statement applicable to one author

<contrib-group>
   <contrib contrib-type="author">
      <name>
         <surname>Banner</surname>
         <given-names>B J</given-names>
      </name>
      <xref ref-type="fn" rid="adx042fn1"/>
   </contrib>
</contrib-group>

<author-notes> 
   <fn id="adx042fn1" fn-type="conflict">
      <p>BJB was employed by ABC Corp, the company they were researching.</p>
   </fn>
</author-notes>

Conflict of Interest statement applicable to multiple authors

<contrib-group>
    <contrib contrib-type="author">
        <name>
            <surname>Higgins</surname>
            <given-names>Elle</given-names>
        </name>
        <xref ref-type="fn" rid="bfg001fn1"/>
    </contrib>
    <contrib contrib-type="author">
        <name>
            <surname>Aching</surname>
            <given-names>T</given-names>
        </name>
        <xref ref-type="fn" rid="bfg001fn1"/>
    </contrib>
</contrib-group>

<author-notes> 
    <fn id="bfg001fn1" fn-type="conflict">
        <p>E.H. and T.A. have no conflict of interest to declare.</p>
    </fn>
</author-notes>