## ISO Standards Tag Set (ISOSTS) version 1.0: A customization of NISO JATS version 0.4

#### International Organization for Standardization (ISO)

# journal-id-type

# Type of Journal Identifier

Names the type of journal identifier or the authority that created a particular journal identifier.

## Attribute Values

#### In Elements

##### <journal-id>

##### <related-article>

Value | Meaning
--- | ---
Data characters | Text, numbers, or special characters.
Restriction: This attribute may be specified if the element is used.

#### Suggested usage

Although designed to accept any text as its value, the following are suggested journal identifier types for this attribute:

archive | Identifier assigned by an archive or other repository for articles
aggregator | Identifier assigned by a data aggregator
doaj | Directory of Open Access Journals
doi | Digital Object Identifier for the entire journal, not just for the article (rare)
index | Identifier assigned by an abstracting or indexing service
issn | International Standard Serial Number for a journal (This value is generally used when referring to related articles.)
nlm-ta | Identifier assigned by PubMed, for example, “Mol Biol Cell”, “Nucleic Acids Res”, etc. This value is typically the journal abbreviation.
pmc | Identifier assigned by PubMed Central, for example, a PubMed Central journal abbreviation such as “pnas”, “mbc”, “nar”, or “molcellb”, etc. This value is typically the journal abbreviation.
publisher-id | Identifier assigned by the content publisher, for example, “MOLEC” or “MOLCEL”

## ISO Standards Tag Set (ISOSTS) version 1.0: A customization of NISO JATS version 0.4

#### Version of April 2012