Supplementary material can take many different forms and can be cited within a publication in many different ways. As such, there are many different ways to style and tag supplementary material with eXtyles, some of which are outlined on this page. This is typically supporting material that is not critical to the main message of the article, but provides additional methodology, details of sampling sites, subsidiary experiments or raw experimental data, and is generally presented in conjunction with the electronic version of an article only.
Supplementary Material Head
If the entire supplement has a title, the Supplementary Material Head style is used. It is not required.
Supplementary Material
Regular body paragraphs within the supplementary material that do not refer to specific supplementary files should be styled as Supplementary Material. This material is wrapped in its own <supplementary-material> element in the XML, as can be seen in the example below. This style would be suitable for supplementary methodology that consists of just text.
Supplementary Material Caption
The Supplementary Material Caption style is used for captions that describe individual supplementary display items, such as figures, videos, spreadsheets, computer programs, etc.
Supplementary Material File Information
The caption for each supplementary file may be followed by file details to be pulled into the XML, such as mimetype or ID. The Supplementary Material File Information paragraph style should be applied to a single paragraph containing one or more file details, each separated by a soft return (manual line break). These file details are automatically pulled into the XML as attributes and values of the supplementary item.
Each line starts with a keyword that will become an attribute in the XML. Attributes that are supported by default are @file, @mimetype, @mime-subtype, @content-type, @doi, and @image. The @image attribute refers to a static image used in the rendered document as a placeholder. Only those attributes that are required need be included in the Word file.
Note that, by default, the supplementary material is wrapped as a <sec> element in the <body> section of the XML file, as can be seen in the example below.
Example
The following example demonstrates the use of the supplementary material paragraph styles. This illustration is an excerpt from the sample document: Sample 1_Math-in-Word.docx
