Notes for the earlier releases
Release notes for earlier Journals TCI updates.
| Topic | Date | Description |
|---|---|---|
| Related articles | 2025-06-04 | Clarified placement of related-article element. Where Article A is about Article B, capture the related-article element(s) in Article A only. (Related articles) |
| Root element and schema declaration | 2024-12-04 | Updated schema declaration to JATS 1.3 (Root element and schema declaration) |
| Root element and schema declaration | 2024-12-04 | Updated issue meta schema declaration to SCJATS 1.42 (Issue meta: Root element) |
| Root element and schema declaration | 2024-12-04 | Updated MathML to MathML 3 (MathML) |
| LaTeX: Delimiters in block/inline equations | 2024-12-04 | Removed requirement to always use single delimiter for inline equations. A single or a double delimiter is required. |
| Issue meta: Root element | 2024-03-06 | Updated issue meta schema version to 1.39 |
| Series titles | 2024-03-06 | Added new value Official Statement to series values |
| Contributors | 2023-12-06 | Updated instruction for authors with a single name |
| Series titles | 2023-12-06 | Added 'Selected Paper' as an OUP series value |
| Collection IDs | 2023-09-06 | Added bjr taxonomy to collection ids list |
| Contributor occupation | 2023-09-06 | New topic for author occupation |
| Mathematical statements | 2023-09-06 | New topic for mathematical statements |
| Article ID (publisher ID) | 2023-09-06 | Article id must be at least 4 characters long to comply with Crossref requirements. |
| Correspondence information | 2023-09-06 | Added information about Twitter handle capture and update example to show non-corresponding author with Twitter handle |
| Collection IDs | 2023-09-06 | Updated collection ID for Journal of Financial Regulation, Clean Energy |
| Peer review history | 2023-09-06 | New topic on capturing peer review history. |
| Collection IDs | 2023-06-07 | Added haschl taxonomy for Health Affairs Scholar |
| Collection IDs | 2023-06-07 | Added JEL taxonomy for Work, Aging and Retirement |
| Article categories | 2023-06-07 | Minor changes to clarify the existing instructions in sub-topics on article categories. |
| Issue meta: Issue title | 2023-06-07 | Added instruction for removing a published issue title. |
| Contributor CRediT roles | 2023-03-01 | Updated attribute values to match the taxonomy exactly. Removed forward slashes from the end of urls, and corrected the dash in values beginning 'Writing -' to a minus sign. |
| Conflict of Interest Statements | 2023-03-01 | Added example for statement applicable to multiple authors |
| Linking to bibliographic references | 2023-03-01 | Clarified instruction and example for capturing multiple non-consecutive cross-references for items in the references |
| Author biographical information | 2023-03-01 | Clarified that a title is required for author biography sections |
| Mathematical equations | 2023-03-01 | Added instruction on allowed contexts for disp-formula. |
| Bibliographic references | 2022-12-07 | Added instruction and example for capturing software citations |
| Collection IDs | 2022-12-07 | Corrected journal names for Ornithology (previously The Auk) and Ornithological Applications (previously The Condor) |
| Elocation-ID | 2022-12-07 | Removed reference to number of characters |
| Elocation-ID | 2022-09-07 | Increased character limit for e-location ids to reflect current id practice |
| Corresponding author | 2022-09-07 | Updated examples to reflect current position of aff elements |
| Subject collections | 2022-09-07 | Added collection ids for ESC journals |
| Footnotes | 2022-09-07 | Updated allowed headings for footnotes group |
| Protection of online images | 2022-09-07 | Added instructions for capture of figures with restricted permissions |
| Related articles | 2022-09-07 | Added example for multiple related articles in one file, and one DOI with an alternative format from an archive transition. |
| Open Access license information | 2022-09-07 | Updated link to Copyright Lines and Information document in the Reference Library. |
| Featured Video and Audio | 2022-06-01 | Example values for id attribute and filenames now match current practice for supplementary-material element for featured media. |
| Inline multimedia content | 2022-06-01 | xlink:href attribute required for media element for valid JATS, added to TCIs and examples. |
| Collection IDs | 2022-06-01 | Added journals with taxonomies petrology, nsr, rasti, plphys and bjs. |
| Collection IDs | 2022-03-02 | Added journals 'Stem Cells' and 'The Oncologist'. |
| Related article links in article body | 2022-03-02 | Added a code example to the topic on Related Article links in the article body. |
| Author biographical information | 2022-03-02 | Added optional <title> element to Author Biographical information. |
| LaTeX: Subscript | 2022-03-02 | New sub-topic on LaTeX for use of underscore for subscript formatting |
| Contributor CRediT roles | 2021-12-01 | Added instructions on capturing CRediT taxonomy roles. |
| Collection IDs | 2021-12-01 | Added journal 'PNAS Nexus'. |
| External links | 2021-09-01 | Updated instructions for DOI link capture in JATS. Deprecated value of doifor external link type. |
| Related articles | 2021-09-01 | Added three new values for related-article-type |
| Open Access license information | 2021-09-01 | URLs to Creative Commons licenses must start with https. |
| Collection IDs | 2021-06-02 | Added journal Age and Ageing (taxonomy 'ageing') to list. |
| Root element and schema declaration | 2021-06-02 | Journal articles are now captured only in JATS, removed reference to SC JATS. Clarified example with namespaces. |
| Contributor affiliations | 2021-03-03 | New instruction to use addr-line in affiliations. |
| Collection IDs | 2021-03-03 | Added new taxonomies for bbb, bjs, g3journal, genetics, and jimb. |
| Contributors | 2020-09-02 | Added instructions for contributors with single names. |
| Issue meta: Root element, Root element and schema declaration | 2020-09-02 | Updated schema version to SCJATS 1.24. |
| Alternative names | 2020-09-02 | Added instructions for alternative names. |
| Corresponding author | 2020-09-02 | @corresp may only be used on individual authors, not collaboration groups. |
| Sections | 2020-09-02 | Title can be empty within journal article sec. |
| Translated abstract | 2020-09-02 | Clarified that table of language codes is not comprehensive and linked to an external list. |
| Publication dates, Issue meta: Cover dates | 2020-09-02 | Remove ppubinstruction. Collection dates must be captured in full (year, month, and day). Add embargo date instruction and example. |
| Data availability statement | 2020-09-02 | New topic implementing the JATS4R recommendation on Data Availability statements. |
| Root element and schema declaration | 2020-09-02 | Add JATS 1.2 DTD declaration. |
| Issue meta: Cover dates | 2020-09-02 | Issue meta cover date must now have an iso-8601-date attribute. |
| Issue meta: Supplement PDF | 2020-06-03 | New page for capture of self-uri on supplement issues. |
| Funding | 2020-06-03 | Added example to illustrate OA article with no release-delay. |
| Issue sponsor, Issue meta: Issue sponsor | 2020-06-03 | New pages to describe capture of issue sponsors. |
| Related articles | 2020-06-03 | Added @id to related-article example. |
| Contributor affiliations | 2020-06-03 | Change to location of aff element. Example of multiple affiliations added. |
| Collection IDs | 2020-03-04 | Added new taxonomies for Neurosurgery, Operative Neurosurgery and Neurosurgery Open. |
| Subject collections | 2020-03-04 | Changed value of subj-group-type |
| Bibliographic references | 2020-03-04 | Added examples of data citations. |
| Root element and schema declaration | 2020-03-04 | Changed value of namespace to version 1.22 of SCBITS. |
| Funding | 2020-03-04 | New preferred tagging style of funder information. |
| Issue meta: Journal identifier | 2019-12-04 | Added instructions for journal identifiers in issue meta. |
| Root element and schema declaration | 2019-12-04 | Schema declaration now uses version 1.21. |
| Article title | 2019-12-04 | Article titles may not contain inline-formula. |
| Oxford Taxonomy | 2019-12-04 | Added instructions to capture default Oxford Taxonomy codes on every journal article and updated instructions for Taxonomy Classifier Service (TCS). |
| Footnotes | 2019-12-04 | Clarified restriction on multiple paragraphs within footnote applies to journals content only. |
| Bibliographic references | 2019-12-04 | Added information on edition element, and field lengths for volume, issue, fpage and lpage elements. |
| Contributors | 2019-12-04 | Explicitly disallow capture of a contributor's address. |
| Figures, Inline multimedia content, 3D Models, Figures. Tables | 2019-09-04 | Values to use for Labels. |
| Root element and schema declaration | 2019-09-04 | Schema declaration now uses version 1.20. |
| Collection IDs | 2019-09-04 | 'biomethods' taxonomy added. |
| LaTeX: Delimiters in block/inline equations | 2019-09-04 | LaTeX must have $ or $$ delimiters, which must not be surrounded by whitespace. |
| External links | 2019-09-04 | External links to DOI must begin with 'http(s)://doi.org/'. |
| Equal Contribution | 2019-09-04 | Updated wording of equal contribution statement to include author names. |
| Article ID (publisher ID) | 2019-09-04 | Added instructions for article-id publisher-id values. |
| 3D Models | 2019-09-04 | Removed instruction to capture title within caption. |
| Issue meta: Table of Contents | 2019-09-04 | Removed instruction to query OUP about issues with over 50 articles. |
| Funding | 2019-09-04 | Added instruction to include funding group info on errata and corrigenda where the related article has funding. |
| JEL codes | 2019-09-04 | Added link to full JEL code list from the AEA. |
| Collection IDs | 2019-09-04 | Added subject code taxonomy for Brain Communications. |
| Article history | 2019-09-04 | Added new allowed values of date-type attribute. |
| Contributor affiliations | 2019-09-04 | New instruction to capture institution and country within aff. |
| Object permissions | 2019-09-04 | New topic on capturing permissions for an object within an article (figure, table, media). |
| Graphics, Inline multimedia content, Supplementary material | 2019-09-04 | New instruction to capture mimetype attribute. |
| Bibliographic references | 2019-06-05 | Added instructions for contributors with @name-style='given-only'. |
| Supplementary material | 2019-06-05 | Updated code example to reflect label instructions. |
| Collection IDs | 2019-06-05 | Added 'Aesthetic Surgery Open Forum' taxonomy to table. |
| Tables | 2019-06-05 | table-wrap must not be captured within a paragraph. |
| Journal ISSN | 2019-06-05 | Electronic ISSNs must always be provided. |
| Issue meta: Root element | 2019-06-05 | Updated wording to include pub-date. |
| Series titles | 2019-06-05 | Added 'InSight' to the list of OUP series. |
| Translated abstract | 2019-06-05 | Added 'Spanish' to the list of commonly used languages. |
| Publication dates | 2019-06-05 | Removed reference to date in article PDF as it may not be present. |
| Correspondence information | 2019-06-05 | Example of linking to author's Twitter feed added. |
| Correspondence information | 2019-06-05 | If an author has both correspondence details and a Present Address, capture within the same <corresp>. |
| Acknowledgements section, References list in a journal article | 2019-06-05 | Elements ack and ref-list are now required to have id attributes. |
| Articles with no body element | 2019-06-05 | New topic describing structure of PDF-only articels, and which types of article can be PDF-only. |
| Series titles | 2019-06-05 | Consolidated topics on series titles (removing separate topics on Editor's Choice, Featured, and Fast Track articles). |
| Copyright and license information | 2019-03-06 | Corrected license-type value from "oup-standard" to "publisher-standard". |
| Open science badges | 2019-03-06 | New page added. |
| Deprecated tagging | 2019-03-06 | Deprecated Search based TOC. |
| Issue meta: Issue title | 2019-03-06 | New page added. |
| Deprecated tagging | 2019-03-06 | Attribute content-type is no longer used for supplements. |
| Conflict of Interest Statements | 2019-03-06 | New page added. |
| Collection IDs | 2019-03-06 | Added The Economics Journal and The Econometrics Journal to list of journals, using JEL taxonomy. |
| Collection IDs | 2019-03-06 | Added The Journals of Gerontology: Series A (gerona) and The Journals of Gerontology: Series B (geronb) to list of journals. |
| Inline multimedia content | 2019-03-06 | Clarify purpose of referenceidand videoidin media assets. |
| Abstract | 2018-12-05 | Clarified instructions for structured abstracts. |
| Cross-references | 2018-12-05 | Clarified markup for references to multiple figures. |
| Bibliographic references | 2018-12-05 | Clarified use of et al. |
| Funding | 2018-12-05 | Page updated to allow for release delay of 0|0. |
| Featured Video and Audio | 2018-12-05 | New page added. |
| Graphical abstract | 2018-12-05 | New page added. |
| Multimedia abstract | 2018-12-05 | New page added. |
| Root element and schema declaration | 2018-10-24 | Schema declaration now used version 1.18. |
| Issue meta: Root element | 2018-10-24 | Schema declaration now used version 1.18. |
| Issue meta: Publication dates | 2018-10-24 | New page added. |
| Issue meta: Cover dates | 2018-10-24 | New page added. |
| Equal Contribution | 2018-09-05 | New page added. |
| Correspondence information | 2018-09-05 | Added instruction for Present Address. |
| Complex volume and issue values | 2018-09-05 | Updated page with new values for Suppmentary and Part content naming. |
| Oxford Taxonomy | 2018-09-05 | New page added. |
| 3D Models | 2018-09-05 | New page added. |
| Inline multimedia content | 2018-09-05 | Added instruction not to include forward slash in Reference ID. |
| Open Access license information | 2018-09-05 | Adding cc-by-igo license. |
| TOC Summary | 2018-09-05 | Renamed topic from Precis Abstracts. |
| Inline multimedia content | 2018-09-05 | Updated link to instruction document. |
| Open Access license information | 2018-09-05 | Added link to information document. |
| Collection IDs | 2018-09-05 | Added Publius (publius) and Evolution, Medicine, and Public Health (emph) to list of collection ID prefixes. |
| (Various) | 2018-09-05 |
Several topics now include details applicable to book content (in preparation for capture of book content in BITS, which shares much of the data model). Several topics have been removed. Their content is redundant or has been merged into other topics. Some topics have been updated to match the platform spec. In particular, author-notes is no longer allowed to contain fn. |
| Copyright and license information | 2018-06-06 | Updated page with latest license markup. |
| Inline multimedia content | 2018-06-06 | Updated page with instructions on markup. |
| Elocation-ID | 2018-06-06 | Instructions added for value of elocation-id element. |
| Appendices | 2018-06-06 | New page with instructions on markup for Appendices. |
| Supplementary material | 2018-06-06 | Clarified instructions. |
| External links | 2018-06-06 | New page with instructions on markup for GenBank links. |
| TOC headings and Search based TOC | 2018-06-06 | Updated requirements for search based TOCs. |
| US Government license | 2018-06-06 | Added license details |
| Crown copyright | 2018-06-06 | Added license details |
| Issue meta: Root element and Issue meta: Issue identifier | 2018-06-06 | Clarified supplemental tagging. |
| Collection IDs | 2018-06-06 | Updated list of collection ID prefixes. |
| Contributor roles | 2018-06-06 | role element is reqiured and 'Decision Editor' added to list of values. |
| Figures and Graphics | 2018-06-06 | Filenames must be lower case. |
| TOC Summary | 2018-06-06 | Confirmed that these must not have a title. |
| Copyright and license information | 2018-03-07 | Update to standard licence |
| Prefixes, Suffixes and Degrees | 2018-03-07 | Updated use of punctuation for degrees |
| Author notes | 2018-03-07 | Removed rid="" from author-notes as its not needed and rid was wrong, should have been id |
| Collection IDs | 2018-03-07 | Added new collection codes to list |
| Contributors | 2018-03-07 | Spilt Contributors and collaborators |
| Collaborators | 2018-03-07 | Split Contributors and collaborators |
| Author roles | 2018-03-07 | Updated topic for use of author role |
| Author Affiliations | 2018-03-07 | Clarified use of fragmented and block affiliations and text not to be included in aff |
| Author Notes | 2018-03-07 | Updated topic and removed rid attributes |
| Linking author information | 2018-03-07 | Tidied up wording of topic, no specific changes |
| Supplementary Data | 2018-03-07 | Updated caption usage |
| Page Information | 2017-12-06 | fpage and lpage elements are no longer allowed in pap articles. |
| Issue Title | 2017-12-06 | br elements are no longer allowed in issue-title elements |
| Prefixes, Suffixes and Degrees | 2017-12-06 | Provided additional examples of prefix, suffix and degrees elements. |
| Contributors and Collaborators | 2017-12-06 | Signficant changes to how authors, editors and group authors are captured. |
| Editors | 2017-12-06 | New Topic - Added to confirm tagging for Editors of papers. |
| Author Roles | 2017-12-06 | New Topic - Added to provide guidance for capturing author roles |
| Author Affiliations | 2017-12-06 | Significant changes to how author affiliations must be captured. |
| Author Comments | 2017-12-06 | Limited the allowed values of author comments and provided more detailed examples. |
| Linking Author Information | 2017-12-06 | Updated guidance to match changes in contributors and affiliations updates |
| Author Biographical Information | 2017-12-06 | New Topic - New instructions for author biographical infomration capturing |
| TOC Headings | 2017-12-06 | Confirmed requirement that toc headings must match between article XML and issue_meta files.Also added a 250 character limit for values of subject |
| Issue meta: Root element | 2017-12-06 | Updated the schema declaration to version 1.4 |
| Character Encoding | 2017-12-06 | Hex characters are no longer allowed. |
| Linking to References | 2017-12-06 | New Topic - Added to cover linking to multiple references in a single xref |
| TOC headings | 2017-07-06 | added toc heading must match issue meta |
| Article Title | 2017-07-06 | Added instructions for footnotes on titles |
| Titles and Degrees | 2017-07-10 | added suffix example |
| Funding | 2017-07-11 | added <?release-delay 12|0?> instruction |
| OA License Information | 2017-07-11 | added <?release-delay 12|0?> instruction |
| Keywords | 2017-07-13 | clarified the use of punctuation in keywords |
| Structured Abstracts | 2017-07-13 | New topic |
| Author Notes | 2017-07-13 | Clarified the use of additional text for present address etc. |
| Author Affiliations | 2017-07-13 | Each aff must be separate. Clarified use of additional text and to use author notes. |
| Contributors and Collaborators | 2017-07-13 | Author initials must not be closed up or with separating puncutation. |
| Inline Graphics | 2017-07-14 | New topic |
| Figures | 2017-07-14 | Removed inline graphic from topic to new topic |
| Inline Multimedia Content | 2017-07-14 | Removed xlink:href from <media> element |
| Inline multimedia content Element for inline audio/video content | 2017-07-14 | Removed xlink:href from <media> element |
| Crown Copyright | 2017-07-14 | Added crown copyright tagging example |
| US Government License | 2017-07-14 | Added US gov copyright statement example |
| XML and DTD/schema declaration | 2017-07-28 | Removed JATS 1.1 declaration for use in QA rules |
| JEL Codes | 2017-04-20 | Moved from Keywords to subject collections. |
| Volume and Issue information | 2017-04-20 | Issue value must not be 0 and must not contain spaces |
| TOC headings | 2017-04-20 | Linked TOC headings topic to issue meta topic |
| Supplement Issue Type | 2017-04-20 | Value must not contain spaces and alphabetical values allowed |
| Link to PDF | 2017-04-20 | value must not contain spaces |
| Supplementary data | 2017-04-20 | Value must not contain spaces |
| Figures | 2017-04-20 | Must not contain child <p> elements |
| Cross-References | 2017-05-02 | Added link to author affiliations |
| Article Title | 2017-05-02 | Added subtitle element allowed as child element of title-group |
| External Links | 2017-05-02 | Added information on ext-link attributes (xlink:href) and its value. |
| Article ID (DOI) | 2017-05-02 | Every article must contain a unique article ID. |
| Medical Guidelines/Public Policy | 2017-05-02 | New topic for advertising surpression articles |
| Inline Multimedia Content | 2017-05-02 | Added xlink:href info and link to media tagging |
| Media element for inline audio/video | 2017-05-02 | Added xlink:href info |
| Cover Dates | 2017-05-02 | Added info about <day> element not being required unless advised. |
| Publication Dates | 2017-05-02 | Clarified the use of zero padding and <day> value required for epub and ppub/collection |
| Validation | 2017-05-03 | Updated link to QA rules and drop down list choice |
| Issue Meta | 2017-05-03 | Created new topic and sub topics on Issue meta capturing |
| Collection ID's | 2017-05-03 | Updated list and removed no longer used codes |
| Deprecated Tagging | 2017-01-17 | Removed corresp from deprecated tagging. For usage see corresponding author. |
| Footnotes | 2017-01-17 | Each footnote-group must include a title element with the text 'Footnotes'. |
| Supplementary Data | 2017-01-17 | Added information of where to find allowed file types. |
| Table Footnotes | 2017-01-17 | Added information about table footnote IDs. |
| Publication dates | 2017-01-17 | Updated Ppub and epub month value must be an integer between 1 and 12 inclusive, day value must be an integer between 01-31 inclusive |
| Funding | 2017-01-17 | Added fundref registry link for list of funders and corresponding funder IDs. Added award-type must have a value of "grant". Updated list of open access license-types for release delay instruction. |
| Standard Abstract | 2016-12-22 | Updated list of allowed values for abstract-type attribute. |
| Precis Abstract | 2016-12-22 | Update precis abstract to remove the need for a title element. |
| Edited State | 2016-12-22 | Updated meta-value with value 'corrected-proof' to add hyphen between text. |
| Footnotes | 2016-12-22 | Footnotes within <table-wrap-foot> do not need to have target xrefs. |
| OA License Information | 2016-12-22 | Updated allowed license-type values. |
| PAP Declaration | 2016-12-22 | Added PAP declaration tagging |
| Linking Author Information | 2016-12-22 | Created a new topic detailing linking author information |