My organization just joined Crossref and I’m starting to submit all of the existing articles from our journal for registration. I’m uploading the information via xml. I created a short test upload to make sure I understood the xml formatting. The test document included the section with <journal_metadata> and the doi I created for the journal itself, and also the <journal_issue> section with the publication date and volume number for the current journal volume, and then a <journal_article> section containing the data for one article from the current volume. The upload worked smoothly.
So, my question is this: when I create my next xml document to upload data for the rest of the articles in the current journal volume and articles in previous volumes, should that xml document also include the same <journal_metadata> section (including journal doi) and repeat the <journal_issue> section for the current volume, or should I leave that data out of the new xml document because I already submitted it?
Thanks for any help you can give me!
Hello @JPRScontact ,
Congratulations on your successful test registrations, and welcome to the Community Forum! Thanks for asking it here, so others can benefit from the discussion.
So, my question is this: when I create my next xml document to upload data for the rest of the articles in the current journal volume and articles in previous volumes, should that xml document also include the same <journal_metadata> section (including journal doi) and repeat the <journal_issue> section for the current volume, or should I leave that data out of the new xml document because I already submitted it?
Yes. The journal article must include the relationship to the journal itself. Without the journal-level metadata in the registration of the journal, we won’t know which journal that article should be associated with. Journal-issue-level metadata is optional, so you don’t have to include it with your registration of journal articles, but you should.
Here is a sample XML file that includes journal-title-, journal-issue-, and journal-article-level metadata: https://gitlab.com/crossref/schema/-/blob/master/best-practice-examples/journal_article_4.8.0.xml. That’s a very good XML file to follow.
Warm regards,
Isaac