The National Information Standards Organization (NISO) has announced the formal publication of a new update to the JATS: Journal Article Tag Suite standard. The purpose of JATS is to define a suite of XML elements and attributes describing the content of metadata and journal articles while using a common format that enables the interchange and exchange of that content. This update, Version 1.2, is fully backwards compatible with the previous JATS Version 1.1, which was released in 2015. The added elements and modifications made in 2019 allow greater flexibility in existing models while enabling support for emerging publishing practices.
Other enhancements include the addition of the inline index term to the narrative text to allow the automated generation of indexes and the @style-detail attribute on
Comments on JATS made through the NISO comment form through May 2018 have been addressed in this version. The published version of the Standard may be found at https://www.niso.org/publications/z3996-2019-jats. Non-normative and supporting materials, including schemas and Tag Library documents, may be found at: https://jats.nlm.nih.gov.
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