Heading Styles

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 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.

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