While heading styles themselves are self-explanatory,
eXtyles JATS supports up to six levels of headings:
Head 1
Head 2
Head 3
Head 4
Head 5
Head 6
Always use the highest available heading level.
Headings should always be correctly nested. Never skip heading levels just to obtain a particular visual "look" in Word.
Headings may be numbered in the Word file. Always use a "strong" separator between the heading number and the text of the heading such as:
a tab,
a period
a colon
By default in eXtyles JATS, the heading level is not indicated explicitly in the output XML. Instead, it can be inferred from the nesting of the <sec> elements.
Level-1 sections have a @sec-type attribute applied to the XML by default.
For certain section titles, e.g. Introduction, Methods, Conclusions, this is prepopulated as e.g., @sec-type="introduction". Otherwise, the @sec-type attribute takes the value "other" with an ascending number series to ensure that each attribute value is unique, i.e., "other1", "other2", etc.