Subject: RE: [jats-list] Best Practice Reference Format From: "Kelly, Laura (NIH/NLM/NCBI) [E]" <kelly@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Date: Mon, 20 Dec 2010 11:33:53 -0500 |
Norias, I don't agree with your vendor telling you that <mixed-citation> should be used without punctuation or spacing. Capturing punctuation and spacing is one of the primary reasons to use <mixed-citation>. Regarding best practice, I personally think the concept of "best practice" is an ambiguous one, at best. It wholly depends on the scope of your project. If you're trying to preserve your legacy content exactly as it originally appeared, then <mixed-citation> is probably the better option. You can tag all of the pieces of the citation and preserve the original punctuation and spacing. If, however, your goal is merely to capture the citation pieces and original presentation does not matter, then <element-citation> may be a better choice. Yes, you will have to write software to determine order, punctuation, and spacing if you're displaying the citations anywhere. And no, it's not a particularly easy thing to do...especially when dealing with legacy data. The article preview XSLT available from the JATS website (http://dtd.nlm.nih.gov/tools/tools.html) has a pretty robust citation rendering component, but it will likely need some customization work to handle your citations properly. If you choose to go the <element-citation> route, that might be a good resource for you to keep in mind when it comes time for citation rendering. Regards, Laura ________________________________________ From: Norias Anoria [noriasanoria@xxxxxxxxx] Sent: Monday, December 20, 2010 10:40 AM To: jats-list@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: [jats-list] Best Practice Reference Format Friends I am told (by company making XML from old documents) that it is best practice to have element-citation not mixed-citation, and if I want mixed-citation they chould have no spaces or punctuation. Is this so? Seems to that old print documents have correct punctuation. If tag without, then software must add punctuation, and maybe not so easy to get it right all the time. What do you think? Norias
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