Related Article Links
The <related-article> element should be used to identify relationships between one article and another. For example, an errata or retraction statement should contain a <related-article> element pointing to the original article. As another example, two articles published together as part 1 and part 2 should have <related-article> elements linking them together.
Related articles should be tagged using the DOI of the related article, and a type attribute to identify the type of relationship. The <related-article> element should be placed within <article-meta>. For example:
<related-article related-article-type="corrected-article" xlink:href="10.1080/13854046.2012.737027"/>A citation of the related publication may be included in <related-article> tag. If a footnote about the related publication appears on the article opening page, the footnote must be tagged as <related-article>, and not as a <fn> within <author-notes>. For example:
<related-article related-article-type="commentary-article" xlink:href="10.1038/ncomms7569">Comment on: <person-group person-group-type="author"><string-name><surname>Varshney</surname>, <given-names>D</given-names></string-name>. <etal>et al</etal></person-group>. <article-title>SINE transcription by RNA polymerase III is suppressed by histone methylation but not by DNA methylation</article-title>. <source>Nat Commun</source>. <year>2015</year> <month>Mar</month> <day>23</day>;<volume>6</volume>:<fpage>6569</fpage>. PMID <pub-id pub-id-type="pmid">25798578</pub-id>; <pub-id pub-id-type="doi">http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/ncomms7569</pub-id></related-article>For most types of article relationships the article published later should contain a <related-article> element linking to the article that published earlier. Relationship types to use in the related-article-type attribute are listed below.
| related-article-type | Description | CATS relationtype |
|---|---|---|
addendum |
Additional material for an article, which was generated too late to be added to the main text | addendum |
commentary-article |
Used in a commentary or editorial to name the article on which this one is commenting | commentary |
companion |
Used in an article to name a companion (related or sibling) article, or used for articles published as multiple parts. |
companion |
series |
Article is part of a thematic series. | series |
retracted-article |
Used in a retraction to name the article that is being retracted. | retraction |
corrected-article |
Used in a correction to name the article that is being corrected. | correction or erratum or
corrigendum |
translated-article |
Used in a translation of an article to link to the original article. The xml:lang attribute should be used to indicate the language of the original. | translation |
republished-article |
Used when republishing an article to link to the original publication. | republish |
response-to |
Reply to a letter or commentary, typically by the original author commenting upon the comments |
response |
publisher-note |
Additional information from the publisher about or clarification of another published article |
publisher-note |
Related article tagging should be included when an article is related in one of these ways to another article, or when related article data is provided in cats.xml. The cats.xml relationtype values corresponding to each related-article-type value are listed in the table above.
Certain article types are required to have related article links. Articles with article type
Correction, Corrigendum or Erratum should
contain a <related-article> element with type corrected-article for each
article that is a subject of the correction. Articles with article type
Retraction or Partial Retraction should contain a
<related-article> element with type retracted-article for each article that
is being retracted.