RE: [jats-list] Best Practice Reference Format

["Kelly, Laura (NIH/NLM/NCBI) [E]" <kelly@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

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

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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