Re: [jats-list] Linking <contrib> to <aff>

["G. Ken Holman g.ken.holman@xxxxxxxxx" <jats-list-service@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Thank you, Alexander. I see here that you conveniently have supplied clickable
text in your xref elements, and as a publishing service, that satisfies what
my stylesheets' needs.

Have you ever chosen not to include clickable text in these affiliation cross
references, and if so, what would you be expecting during publishing?

At 16/12/2025 17:27 +0000, Alexander Schwarzman aschwarzman@xxxxxxxxx wrote:
>Hi Michael,
>
>Pieter and Nikos have already weighed in on the problems with not
>using <xref>, e.g., the need to repeat <aff> when multiple authors
>share an affiliation, and to indicate @ref-type. I'd like to simply
>illustrate these points by providing a real-life example from a 2024
>open-access article; see https://doi.org/10.1364/OE.519379. Here is
>the relevant portion of the markup:
>
><article-meta>
>     <contrib-group>
>          <contrib contrib-type="author">
>               <name>
>                    <surname>Collard</surname>
>                    <given-names>Liam</given-names>
>               </name>
>               <xref ref-type="aff" rid="aff1">1</xref>
>               <xref ref-type="aff" rid="aff2">2</xref>
>               <xref ref-type="aff" rid="aff4">4</xref>
>               <xref ref-type="author-notes" rid="an1">\x86</xref>
>               <xref ref-type="corresp"/>
>          </contrib>
>          <contrib contrib-type="author">
>               <name>
>                    <surname>Kazemzadeh</surname>
>                    <given-names>Mohammadrahim</given-names>
>               </name>
>               <xref ref-type="aff" rid="aff1">1</xref>
>               <xref ref-type="aff" rid="aff5">5</xref>
>               <xref ref-type="author-notes" rid="an1">\x86</xref>
>          </contrib>
>          <contrib contrib-type="author">
>               <name>
>                    <surname>Piscopo</surname>
>                    <given-names>Linda</given-names>
>               </name>
>               <xref ref-type="aff" rid="aff1">1</xref>
>               <xref ref-type="aff" rid="aff3">3</xref>
>          </contrib>
>          <contrib contrib-type="author">
>               <name>
>                    <surname>De Vittorio</surname>
>                    <given-names>Massimo</given-names>
>               </name>
>               <xref ref-type="aff" rid="aff1">1</xref>
>               <xref ref-type="aff" rid="aff2">2</xref>
>               <xref ref-type="aff" rid="aff3">3</xref>
>               <xref ref-type="aff" rid="aff6">6</xref>
>               <xref ref-type="author-notes" rid="an2">\x87</xref>
>          </contrib>
>          <contrib contrib-type="author">
>               <name>
>                    <surname>Pisanello</surname>
>                    <given-names>Ferruccio</given-names>
>               </name>
>               <xref ref-type="aff" rid="aff1">1</xref>
>               <xref ref-type="aff" rid="aff2">2</xref>
>               <xref ref-type="aff" rid="aff7">7</xref>
>               <xref ref-type="author-notes" rid="an2">\x87</xref>
>          </contrib>
>          <aff
id="aff1"><label>1</label><institution-wrap><institution>Istituto
>Italiano di
>               Tecnologia</institution><institution-id
institution-id-type="ror"
>
>https://ror.org/042t93s57</institution-id></institution-wrap>,
>Center for Biomolecular Nanotechnologies,
>               Arnesano, LE 73010, <country
country="IT">Italy</country></aff>
>          <aff id="aff2"><label>2</label><institution>RAISE
>Ecosystem</institution>, Genova, <country country="IT"
>               >Italy</country></aff>
>          <aff id="aff3"><label>3</label>Dipartimento di Ingegneria
>DellbInnovazione, <institution>Universit\xC3  del
>               Salento</institution>, Lecce 73100, <country
>country="IT">Italy</country></aff>
>          <aff id="aff4">
>               <label>4</label>
>               <email>*@iit.it</email>
>          </aff>
>          <aff id="aff5">
>               <label>5</label>
>               <email>**@iit.it</email>
>          </aff>
>          <aff id="aff6">
>               <label>6</label>
>               <email>***@iit.it</email>
>          </aff>
>          <aff id="aff7">
>               <label>7</label>
>               <email>****@iit.it</email>
>          </aff>
>     </contrib-group>
>     <author-notes>
>          <fn id="an1">
>               <label>\x86</label>
>               <p>These authors contributed equally and are co-first
authors</p>
>          </fn>
>          <fn id="an2">
>               <label>\x87</label>
>               <p>These authors jointly supervised and are co-last
>authors of this work</p>
>          </fn>
>     </author-notes>
></article-meta>
>
>Thank you,
>--Sasha
>
>Alexander ('Sasha') Schwarzman
>Content Technology Architect
>aschwarzman@xxxxxxxxxx
>Optica Publishing Group
>
>
>
>
>On Mon, Dec 15, 2025 at 4:41b/PM Michael Boudreau
>mboudreau@xxxxxxxxxxxx <jats-list-service@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>wrote:
>>
>> Hi all,
>>
>> I've been discussing with our platform vendor a feature that doesn't
support our practice of linking article authors and their affiliations via
contrib/@rid and aff/@id, e.g.,
>>
>> <contrib-group>
>>     <contrib contrib-type="author" rid="af1">
>>         <string-name name-style="western">
>>             <given-names>Sam</given-names>
>>             <surname>Masur</surname>
>>         </string-name>
>>     </contrib>
>>     <contrib contrib-type="author" rid="af2">
>>         <string-name name-style="western">
>>             <given-names>Sadie</given-names>
>>             <surname>Green</surname>
>>         </string-name>
>>     </contrib>
>>     <aff id="af1">Harvard University</aff>
>>     <aff id="af2">Massachusetts Institute of Technology</aff>
>> </contrib-group>
>>
>> The vendor points out that the preferred way of linking <contrib> and <aff>
is with a contrib/xref[@ref-type="aff"], which the JATS documentation indeed
labels a "best practice":
https://jats.nlm.nih.gov/archiving/tag-library/1.2/element/contrib.html
>>
>> I'm wondering if someone can elaborate on the rationale for recommending
<xref> and whether there's anything inherently problematic with the markup
illustrated above. It strikes me as, at least, simple and unambiguous, well
suited for articles whose authors have a single affiliation, as is extremely
common in the humanities and social sciences.
>>
>> --
>>
>> Michael R. Boudreau
>>
>> Electronic Publishing Technology Manager
>>
>> The University of Chicago Press
>>
>> 1427 E. 60th Street
>>
>> Chicago, IL 60637
>>
>> www.journals.uchicago.edu
>>
>>
>>
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