Equal Contribution

Capture Equal Contribution information in a fn element within author-notes.

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

<contrib-group>
    <contrib contrib-type="author">
        <name>
            <surname>Banner</surname>
            <given-names>B J</given-names>
        </name>
        <xref ref-type="aff" rid="aff1" />
        <xref ref-type="fn" rid="fn-0002" />
    </contrib>
</contrib-group>

<author-notes> 
    <fn id="fn-0002">
        <p>B J Banner and J R R Tolkien contributed equally to this work.</p>
    </fn>
</author-notes>