Supplementary Material and Media

Supplementary Material Files

Supplementary material files should have corresponding references tagged using a <supplementary-material> element for each supplementary file. A description of the file, if provided, should be tagged as a caption. For example:

<supplementary-material id="sm2688" xlink:href="TNZM_A_844721_SM2688.docx" content-type="document" mimetype="application" mime-subtype="vnd.openxmlformats-officedocument.wordprocessingml.document">
    <caption>
        <title>Details of sample collection from killer whales</title>
    </caption>
</supplementary-material>

The <supplementary-material> element should be placed in <article-meta>.

Supplementary Material Section

Most articles that have supplementary material will have a special section added near the end of the article. This special section usually has a title similar to "Supplemental Material" or "Supplementary Data", contains a link to the find the supplementary material online, and is placed before the References section within <back>. This section may either be generated as part of the PDF template (in which case it will not be included in the article XML) or be included in the article XML.

When it is included in the article XML, this special section should have an attribute sec-type="supplementary-material" placed on the <sec> element.

The link to find the supplementary material online should be a DOI link to the article. The URL should be formed by concatenating "http://dx.doi.org/" with the article's DOI.

For example:

<sec id="s0006" sec-type="supplementary-material">
<title>Supplemental Material</title>
<p>Supplemental data for this article can be accessed on the <ext-link ext-link-type="uri" xlink:href="http://dx.doi.org/10.4161/2162402X.2014.992749">publisher&apos;s website.</ext-link></p>
</sec>

Media Files

Media files are typically video or audio files that appear in the online version of an article. An alternative image file may be included to display as a link to the media file.

<fig id="F0002">
    <caption>
        <p>Video of interview</p>
    </caption>
    <alternatives>
        <media id="MED3777" xlink:href="CJAC_A_824818_MED3777.avi" mimetype="video" mime-subtype="avi" xlink:show="new"/>
        <graphic xlink:href="CJAC_A_824818_F0002_C.jpg" content-type="color"/>
    </alternatives>
</fig>

<fig id="MED3777">
    <caption>
        <p>Video of interview</p>
    </caption>
    <alternatives>
        <media xlink:href="CJAC_A_824818_MED3777.avi" id="med3777m" mimetype="video" mime-subtype="avi" xlink:show="new"/>
        <graphic xlink:href="CJAC_A_824818_MED3777.jpg"/>
    </alternatives>
</fig>

Mime Types

The table below lists several common mime types and subtypes. See the related links below for lists of more official mime types.