Book Review Tagging

Overview

Our aim is to ensure that all Book Review information displayed on the PDF is correctly captured within the TF JATS article XML and presented online in the clearest possible manner.

We will refer to the following example Book Review during this guide which uses our ideal XML tagging: https://doi.org/10.1080/15424065.2017.1321508

Article Type

The article-type attribute should always be tagged as “Book Review”, The <article-categories>/@article-type elment should also be tagged as “Book Review”.

<article article-type="Book Review"
...
  <article-categories>
    <series-title content-type="article-type">Book Review</series-title>.

Authors

The Author is whoever wrote the review. The author information that is encoded in the <contrib-group> and <author-notes> elements should be for the author(s) of the book review.

For Example: In our example article Sarah McCord has written a review of the book. The book itself was written by Lisa M. Federer. The <contrib-group> and <author-notes> elements should contain Sarah McCord’s details.

<contrib contrib-type="author">
<name>
<surname>McCord</surname>
<given-names>Sarah</given-names>
</name>
</contrib>

Standardised Contents of the <article-title> and <subtitle> elements

The title of the book or chapter being reviewed should always be captured within the <article-title> element. The remaining details (including author of book, publisher, ISBN etc) should be captured in the <subtitle> element.

For Example: In our example article the book being reviewed is called ‘The Medical Library Association guide to data management for librarians’ so that is what is coded in the <article-title> element. The remaining details are coded in <subtitle>.

<article-meta>
  <title-group>
    <article-title>The Medical Library Association guide to data management for librarians</article-title>
    <subtitle>by Lisa M. Federer, ed., Lanham, MD: Rowman &amp; Littlefield, 2016, 242pp., $65.00 (paperback), ISBN 9781442264274.</subtitle>
  </title-group>

In some cases the book review may have its own title that does not include the title of the book. For example this article: https://doi.org/10.1080/03057070.2017.1292676. In cases like this the <article-title> should be tagged as per the details supplied in the CATS.xml. The remaining details (book title, authors, isbn, etc.) should be captured in the <subtitle> element.

Capturing book details using <product> element

Data captured in the TF JATS <product> element does not display on tandfonline.com but we still require the <product> element to be populated. The <product> element is designed to hold all of the data about the book (product) being reviewed. In our example article the product element should be captured as follows. Notice that the <product> element contains formatting, text and punctuation between elements – matching the book details captured in <article-title> and <subtitle>:

<product product-type="book"><person-group person-group-type="editor"><string-name><given-names>Lisa M.</given-names> <surname>Federer</surname></string-name></person-group>, ed., (<year>2016</year>). <source><italic>The Medical Library Association Guide to Data Management for Librarians</italic></source>. <publisher-loc>Lanham, MD</publisher-loc>: <publisher-name>Rowman &amp; Littlefield</publisher-name>, <size units="pages">230</size> pp., <price>$65.00</price> (<comment>paperback</comment>), ISBN <isbn>9781442264274</isbn>.</product>

The book review full-text

The actual review should be captured using our standard full-text xml tagging (using <sec> and <p> tags).

Book reviews that review more than one book

Occasionally we will publish multiple book reviews combined within one article (one DOI). In these cases you should tag the article title and authors as supplied in the CATS.xml, unless otherwise instructed by the Production Editor.