Collaborative author groups

A collaborative author group is usually a large group of authors that is identified as a consortium. The consortium appears on the article's author list, but the individual members of the consortium may not. However, members of the consortium should be noted in both the article and XML. Member names will appear in the PubMed record.

XML

Member names should be included in the XML so that they can be listed in a collaborators section in the PubMed record. You can see an example here: https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/33904890/. The consortium and their member names must be included in the JPS record (click on the group name in the author list and enter members in the pop-up box). This will then be included in the articlemeta.xml file sent to TNQ, and the member names will be imported into the XML with the required tagging. This will result in the XML tagging noted below.

Members of each group should be provided inside a <contrib-group> node that is a child of the <collab> element. These contributing members are not treated as authors and will not appear in the by-line, but will be submitted to PubMed as investigators/collaborators. The tagging is as follows:

<title-group>

             <article-title>SARS-CoV-2&#x2013;related MIS-C: A key to the viral and genetic

                 causes of Kawasaki disease?</article-title>

             <alt-title alt-title-type="short">Rare IEIs in MIS-C and Kawasaki

                disease?</alt-title>

         </title-group>

         <contrib-group>

<contrib contrib-type="author" corresp="yes">

                 <contrib-id authenticated="true" contrib-id-type="orcid"

                     >https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3519-0727</contrib-id>

                 <name>

                     <surname>Sancho-Shimizu</surname>

                     <given-names>Vanessa</given-names>

                 </name>

<xref ref-type="aff" rid="aff1"/>

                 <xref ref-type="aff" rid="aff2"/>

                 <xref ref-type="corresp" rid="cor2"/>

             </contrib>

<contrib contrib-type="author">

                 <contrib-id authenticated="true" contrib-id-type="orcid"

                     >https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8103-0046</contrib-id>

                 <name>

                     <surname>Brodin</surname>

                     <given-names>Petter</given-names>

                 </name>

<xref ref-type="aff" rid="aff3"/>

             </contrib>

<contrib contrib-type="author"><collab>MIS-C@CHGE<contrib-group><contrib><name><surname>Haddad</surname><given-names>Elie</given-names></name></contrib><contrib><name><surname>Beland</surname><given-names>Kathie</given-names></name></contrib><contrib><name><surname>Pujol</surname><given-names>Aurora</given-names></name></contrib><contrib><name><surname>Schl&#x00FC;ter</surname><given-names>Agatha</given-names></name></contrib><contrib><name><surname>Planas-Serra</surname><given-names>Laura</given-names></name></contrib><contrib><name><surname>Aguilera-Albesa</surname><given-names>Sergio</given-names></name></contrib><contrib><name><surname>Valencia-Ramos</surname><given-names>Juan</given-names></name></contrib><contrib><name><surname>Rodr&#x00ED;guez-Palmero</surname><given-names>Agust&#x00ED;</given-names></name></contrib><contrib><name><surname>Gut</surname><given-names>Marta</given-names></name></contrib></contrib-group></collab>

                 <xref ref-type="aff" rid="aff21"/>

                </contrib>

</contrib-group>

The contrib-group members as tagged above will not display in the HTML article. This is why a footnote and supplemental table is needed. See below.

Text

The full names of consortium members must be included in the article. This can be done in various ways, depending on how long the member list is.

1) There must always be an unnumbered footnote. The footnote needs to fit on the first page of the PDF.

a) If the member list isn't too long, provide the full name of each member.

b) If the list is rather long, abbreviate the first and middle names to fit the footnote on the first page of the PDF. 

c) If the member list is too long to provide in a footnote, the footnote should simply point to the supplemental table: e.g., "ESID Registry Working Party and COVID Human Genetic Effort members are listed in Table S3." 

2) If full member names are not given in the footnote, they must be listed in a supplemental table.

3) If member affiliations are provided (they are not required), the affiliations should be listed in a supplemental table. Specify in the related footnote that "Affiliations are listed in Table S#."

Article specifics

The supplemental table should be the last supplemental table number, if there are others.

This supplemental table should not be linked in the consortium footnote. It should not be mentioned in the M&M "Online supplemental material" paragraph.

The Table S# file needs to have a caption, like any other external file; something short like "Table S# lists members of the Stanford COVID-19 Biobank."