Examples
Worked examples
- Is an instance
A PMC-deposited article supplied as JATS XML by a publisher.
- Is an instance
An Erudit-hosted Canadian humanities journal article in JATS XML.
Counter-examples
Looks similar, but isn't
- Not an instance
A bibliographic record in CSL JSON is not JATS — it has no full-text body.
- Not an instance
A PDF rendition of an article is not JATS.
Editorial commentary
JATS evolved from the NLM Journal Archiving and Interchange DTD (2003-onwards) and was standardised as ANSI/NISO Z39.96 in 2012, with subsequent revisions. Publishers, PMC, repositories, and CRIS systems exchange JATS XML to represent full-text articles in a tractable structured form (front matter with metadata, body with structural elements, back matter with references). JATS underpins PubMed Central, Europe PMC, and Erudit’s full-text infrastructure. Sister standards include BITS (book chapters) and STS (technical standards).
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Also known as
Journal Article Tag Suite · ANSI/NISO Z39.96
Machine-readable encodings
Use in your systems
<role vocab="credit"
vocab-identifier="https://casrai.org/dictionary/"
vocab-term="JATS XML"
vocab-term-identifier="https://casrai.org/dictionary/term/jats-xml" />{
"@context": "https://schema.org",
"@type": "DefinedTerm",
"name": "JATS XML",
"identifier": "https://casrai.org/dictionary/term/jats-xml",
"description": "Journal Article Tag Suite (ANSI/NISO Z39.96): an XML vocabulary for describing the textual content and metadata of scholarly journal articles, comprising tag sets for archival (Green), publishing (Blue), and authoring (Pumpkin) use cases.",
"inDefinedTermSet": "https://casrai.org/dictionary/domain/research-information-systems-and-integration/",
"url": "https://casrai.org/dictionary/term/jats-xml",
"sameAs": [
"Journal Article Tag Suite",
"ANSI/NISO Z39.96"
],
"license": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/"
}
