Description

The overall title for the article.

User stories

Author

1. As an author, I want to be able to clearly see the title for my article so that I can check it is correct.
2. As an author, I want to be able to edit the title so that I can correct any errors.
3. As an author, I want to be able to apply style formatting to the title so that I can add emphasis.
4. As an author, I want to be able to add maths to my title so that I can refer to mathematical terms in the same manner as in the main text.

Érudit and SciELO

5. As a production staff, I want to be able to add one or more translated titles so that it can be read in multiple languages.
6. As a production staff, I want to be able to add a footnote to an article title so that I can append additional information relevant to a reader.

But what if . . . ?

Consideration

• Titles can include inline equations.
• eLife only allows certain formatting in its titles; bold is disallowed due to the way that titles display in our content.
• Both SciELO and Érudit have use cases for allowing footnotes on article titles - for example, to link in the details for a book being reviewed or to provide information on where the work was conducted (http://ref.scielo.org/9xmnwp).
• The language for a translated title should be captured in the attributes.
• For book reviews, Érudit replaces the article title with a product element containing details of the book being reviewed captured as related-object. Therefore, they will need the option to switch out a regular title for the book details. We will likely need a new ticket for product.

XML requirements

<article-title> element, captured as a child of <title-group> (the latter being a direct child of <article-meta>), e.g.

<article-meta>
     …
     <title-group>
          <article-title>Beyond protein-coding genes</article-title>
     </title-group>
     …
</article-meta>

eLife allows the following child elements of article-title:

• italic
• sup
• sub
• inline-formula

SciElO and Erudit also allow the following child elements of article-title (in addition to the above):

• xref
• bold

Some publishers use subtitle

<article-meta>
     …
     <title-group>
          <article-title>Against Method</article-title>
          <subtitle>Outline of an Anarchistic Theory of Knowledge</subtitle>
     </title-group>
     …

</article-meta>

Some publishers have translated titles

...
<title-group>
    <article-title>De la préservation linguistique et nationale: la qualité de la langue de la jeunesse acadienne, un débat linguistique idéologique</article-title>
    <subtitle>Example de sustitre</subtitle>
    <trans-title-group xml:lang="pt">
        <trans-title>Preservaçao linguistica e nacional: a qualidade da linguagem da juventude acadiana, um debate linguistico ideológico</trans-title>
        <trans-subtitle>Exemplo de subtítulo</trans-subtitle>
    </trans-title-group>
    <trans-title-group xml:lang="es">
        <trans-title>Preservación linguistica y nacional: la calidad de la lenguade la juventude acadiana, un debate linguistico ideologico</trans-title>
        <trans-subtitle>Exemplo de subtitulo</trans-subtitle>
    </trans-title-group>
</title-group>
...

SciELO and Erudit allow xrefs in titles (pointing to footnotes)

<title-group>
    <article-title>RITUAL CÍVICO E POLÍTICA NA REAÇÃO MONÁRQUICA: RIO DE JANEIRO E SALVADOR, 1837-41<xref ref-type="fn" rid="fn1"><sup>1</sup></xref></article-title>
    <trans-title-group xml:lang="en">
        <trans-title>CIVIC AND POLITICAL RITUAL IN THE MONARCHIC REACTION: RIO DE JANEIRO AND SALVADOR, 1837-41</trans-title>
    </trans-title-group>
</title-group>

Mock ups

Proposal