Ahead of Print

Ahead of Print is a term used for a journal article publication model at De Gruyter. Articles are usually published within issues. To avoid prolonging the publication of articles to the issue publication date, they may be published as single articles as Ahead of Print. Generally, these articles don't use page numbers.

Book Archive XML

This is a Content Delivery Package that represents the (media)-neutral XML version for our book content. Rather than having an XML file for each chapter, the entire book content is integrated within one XML file (as it is intended from the BITS XML Schema). A PDF file is not part of this delivery.

Book Part

A book part is created by dividing a book title into single parts. Usually these parts are chapters and are represented within NLM related XML files as <book-part>s, but also content such as Acknowledgement, Preface or References are defined as book parts. A DOI is assigned to each part.

Book-XML

The Book-XML is used within Books Online Data and represents the structure of the book. It is used to create and display the Table of Contents at De Gruyter Online.

Content Delivery Package

A content delivery package is a type of delivery that is particularly used for XML and Online data deliveries. Currently, there are four types:

• Books Online Data

• Books Archive XML

• Journals Online Data

• Pub Med Central

Cover Date

The Cover Date of an issue reflects the month and year a specific issue is assigned to. In case an issue is published earlier or later, the Cover Date needs to remain the same. This is, for example, important for journals that publish 12 issues a year, which means 1 issue per month. Each issue is associated with a specific month (Issue 1 with January, Issue 8 with August, ...).

To reflect this information within the issue meta data, the Publication Date is used.

Copyediting Guidelines

The document „Copyediting Guidelines“ [1] provides information about the copyediting requirements for journal articles and books. It gives detailed information on copyediting tasks for specific levels of copyediting. The guidelines are directed to the supplier for copyediting.

Camera-ready copy

CRC (Camera-ready copy) means to create and to supply a final print PDF by the authors and editors. For the creation of content for books or journals can be used the CRC-templates for InDesign, Word and La-TeX. The font DG Meta Science are necessary for the generation of the final print PDF via the templates.

Fonts

The basic element of the De Gruyter housestyle is the “DG Meta Science” font family that offers a wide variety of characters used in academic publications to meet the requirements of De Gruyter.

For the Hebrew alphabet we use the font SBL Hebrew. For additional mathematical characters and symbols we use the font Minion Math from typoma. Additional typefaces are listed in the styleguide manual [3] – e.g. for Arabic, Cuneiform, Runic etc.

To ensure a smooth full text search capacity in e-books and PDF documents, fonts with Unicode encoding [2] must be used wherever possible. Please coordinate fonts for specific requirements with the production team.

Housestyle

The Housestyle describes De Gruyter's specific layout guidelines. It includes a Styleguide, sample pages as well as InDesign, Word and La-TeX Templates [3].

Instructions for Authors

The guidelines “Instructions for Authors” provides general rules for the drafting of manuscript as well as for their submission to De Gruyter for publication. In order to help the author with compilation of his manuscript we offer the word manuscript template.

It contains basic style formats that fulfill the DG requirements with respect to structure. The manuscript template uses the system fonts Times New Roman and Arial.

Issue-XML

The Issue-XML is used within Journal Online Data and represents the structure of the issue. It is used to create and display the Table of Contents at De Gruyter Online. The Issue XML is located within the folder issue-files.

Just Accepted

Just Accepted is a term used for a journal article publication model at De Gruyter. Articles that have been accepted within peer review are published immediately afterwards. There is no professional copyediting or typesetting applied to the manuscript, it is published as it is and may be changed during the production process afterwards.

Online Data

This data package includes PDF and XML files as well as asset files and is used to publish content on our platform [5].

• Books

• Journal Issues

• Journal Articles (Ahead of Print and Just Accepted)

For books, compared to Book Archive XML each Book Part is represented within a single XML and PDF file.

Post Acceptance Corrections

Journals are seen as accepted when they are passed along to production. The document "Post Acceptance Corrections" [6] should help Production Editors and Typesetters to determine when to flag up corrections provided by authors or editors during proof stage. These types of corrections include changing large pieces of text, additions or deletions of authors, additions of figures or tables, and additions of Supplementary Material.

Post Publication Corrections

De Gruyter considers an article to be published once it has appeared online ahead of print. However, we realize that occasionally, post-publication corrections will be necessary. We consider it our responsibility to maintain the integrity of the version of record, across all content platforms. The document "Post Publication Corrections" [6] gives an overview of post publication correction options and states the required Housestyle and XML implementation.

Production Wiki

At the wiki „Production De Gruyter“ [7] there are relevant and detailed information about De Gruyter’s production specifications. The page has been created to offer our production partners a platform which combines all needed information for producing De Gruyter books and journals.

Publication Date

The Publication Date shows when content has been published in print (ppub) or online (epub). This could apply to the following types of publication:

• Journal Article

• Journal Issue

• Book

For journal issues, the element <pub-date> within the Issue-XML (/issue-xml/issue-meta/pub-date) is used to hold the Cover Date of an issue. To capture the actual publication date, the elements <pub-date pub-type="actual_ppub"> or <pub-date pub-type="actual_epub"> must be used. Details can be found within the section Publication Date within the XML Guidelines [4].

Revision

Within production there are various standards and guidelines that are developed and maintained. Due to changes within publications in general, occurrence of new requirements or mistakes, there is the need to revise standards and guidelines. For change requests, please contact standards@degruyter.com.

Submission Checker

The Submission Checker is a De Gruyter hosted XML Quality Assurance tool for final book and journal content. It has been developed by le-tex publishing services [8] and will be continuously extended by new rules and additional types of deliveries (like Book Archive XML). More information can be found within the De Gruyter Wiki [10] and the Jats Con 2016 Proceedings [9].

XML Guidelines

Within the De Gruyter XML Guidelines [4] we define - besides the XML tagging instructions itself - the following requirements for our Content Delivery Packages:

• XML Schema

• Structure and Naming Convention of the Delivery Package and its files

• Allowed Unicode Ranges

Submission Checker

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