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Section Heads

Each of these styles is used for a heading of the appropriate section:

• Acknowledgement Head

• Financial Disclosure Head

• Competing Interests Head

• Author Contributions Head

In each case, it is not required to have a heading paragraph.

However, if there is a heading, it should be presented as a separate paragraph styled as Acknowledgement Head, Financial Disclosure Head, Competing Interests Head, or Author Contributions Head rather than as a run-in head to the main note paragraph.

Author Notes Body Text

These styles are used for the main body of each of these author notes. They may each be used for one or more paragraphs. These various document elements are summarized as follows (see also JATS DTD documentation):

• Acknowledgement: Textual material that names the parties who the author wishes to thank or recognize for their assistance in, for example, producing the work, funding the work, inspiring the work, or assisting in the research on which the work is based.

• Financial Disclosure: Statement of funding or denial of funds received in support of the research on which an article is based.

• Competing Interests: Conflict of interest statements that detail connections, financial or otherwise, between the author(s) and other organizations that might potentially benefit financially or otherwise from the outcome of the research.

• Author Contributions: Details of the particular elements of the study that were the responsibility of a particular author(s).

Contract Sponsor, Contract Number

The Contract Sponsor and Contract Number character styles can be applied by hand to the Acknowledgements paragraph(s) in order to identify providers of funding or other support and any grant numbers or program information associated with those funders.

In order for the correct links to be created between the funder and the grant numbers that apply to them, the text must be arranged so that the various styled elements appear in the order Sponsor 1, Number(s) 1, Sponsor 2, Number(s) 2, etc.