Author footnotes

[JGilbert-eLife]

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Description

Additional custom footnotes occasionally required to denote special statuses on the author list (e.g. ‘Authors listed in alphabetical order’).

User stories

Author

• (1) As an author, I want to be able to add a footnote to authors so that I can list non-standard information about them.
• (2) As an author, I want to be able to remove an author footnote so that I correct errors.

Production staff

But what if . . . ?

Consideration

• These are specifically to cover information that cannot be captured in a more semantic manner. The example we usually go to for this is 'Authors are listed in alphabetical order.'
• At eLife, we dislike using these but they are a publishing convention and we accept that they are going to be required.
• SciELO uses footnotes to capture author contributions:

 <fn fn-type="con">
        <p><bold>Author contributions</bold></p>
        <p>Conception and design of the research: Farsky PS, Hirata MH, Lima PHO, Lin-Wang HT; Acquisition of data: Farsky PS,
Arnoni RT, Almeida AFS, Issa M, Lima PHO, Higuchi ML, Lin-Wang HT; Analysis and interpretation of the data: Farsky PS, Hirata MH, Arnoni RT, Almeida AFS, Issa
M, Lima PHO, Higuchi ML, Lin-Wang HT; Statistical analysis: Lin-Wang HT; Obtaining financing: Farsky PS, Lima PHO; Writing of the manuscript: Farsky PS, Lin-Wa
ng HT; Critical revision of the manuscript for intellectual content: Farsky PS, Hirata MH, Arnoni RT, Almeida AFS, Issa M, Lin-Wang HT.</p>
    </fn>

XML requirements

Miscellaneous footnotes contained in <author-notes> which are a child of <article-meta>. The content is captured in a <fn fn-type=”other”> element:

<article-meta>
    ...
    <contrib-group content-type="author">
        <contrib>
            <name>
                <surname>Atherden</surname>
                <given-names>Frederick P</given-names>
            </name>
            <xref ref-type="fn" rid="fn1">§</xref>
        </contrib>
        ...
    </contrib-group>
    …
    <author-notes>
        <fn fn-type="other" id="fn1">
            <label>§</label>
            <p>Author order was determined both alphabetically and in order of increasing seniority.</p>
        </fn>
    </author-notes>
    …
</article-meta>

PMC guidance:

Example from the JATSdocumentation:

Mock ups

Proposal

[michael]

We had a proposal for this already.

Would work for conflict of interest statements, present addresses, equally contributed (user chooses an author note type). Does that capture your needs?

[michael]

Since we see two different ways to mark deceased authors (deceased attribute vs. deceased author footnote) we would need a decision here which concept to use (or allow both ways, would try to avoid).

Otherwise the requirements are clear.

[JGilbert-eLife]

Doesn't that question belong in https://github.com/substance/texture/issues/1259?

I've also updated the considerations to account for SciELO using footnotes to capture contributions (they keep them as a single footnote rather than splitting them between the authors):

 <fn fn-type="con">
        <p><bold>Author contributions</bold></p>
        <p>Conception and design of the research: Farsky PS, Hirata MH, Lima PHO, Lin-Wang HT; Acquisition of data: Farsky PS,
Arnoni RT, Almeida AFS, Issa M, Lima PHO, Higuchi ML, Lin-Wang HT; Analysis and interpretation of the data: Farsky PS, Hirata MH, Arnoni RT, Almeida AFS, Issa
M, Lima PHO, Higuchi ML, Lin-Wang HT; Statistical analysis: Lin-Wang HT; Obtaining financing: Farsky PS, Lima PHO; Writing of the manuscript: Farsky PS, Lin-Wa
ng HT; Critical revision of the manuscript for intellectual content: Farsky PS, Hirata MH, Arnoni RT, Almeida AFS, Issa M, Lin-Wang HT.</p>
    </fn>