The @article-type attribute on the <article> element broadly categorizes the journal article content. The @article-type values can be used to identify, count, and find various types of articles contained within the PsycARTICLES database, for example how many “brief articles” were published this year?
Values are unconstrained, but may include any of the values described below.
| Value | Meaning |
|---|---|
| abstract | Applies to a single article specifically identified as an abstract. |
| abstract-collection | Applies to an item containing a collection of abstracts (usually describing papers presented at a specific meeting or convention) |
| article | Applies to most common types of articles: articles, regular articles, research or literature review articles, editorials, etc. |
| association-report | In American Psychologist, applies to articles labeled as “Reports of the Association”. In other titles, applies to articles presenting information related to the business operations of the sponsoring society, e.g., "By-laws". |
| award | In American Psychologist,applies to the individual citation/biography/selected bibliography articles, which usually start with a photo of the person who received the award. |
| award-address | In American Psychologist, applies to an item specifically labeled as an award address. Typically, an award address immediately follows an award article. |
| award-information | In American Psychologist, applies to the rest of the pieces in an awards issue or section, those that are not “award”s or “award address”es. |
| brief-article | Applies to articles formally designated as shorter or more condensed than other articles in the journal or issue, for example, articles labeled or grouped under headings like "Short Reports", "Brief Reports", "Observations", and "Theoretical Notes". The designation may be a heading in the table of contents or a banner or label on the article itself. |
| column | Applies to articles specifically identified as a column (e.g., Editor's Column, President's Column) or to a recurring "news" section that groups together a number of very small pieces of information of interest to a journal's readership (e.g., "News and Notes"). |
| comment/reply | Applies to articles that comment on another article (typically the phrase “Comment on”, “Reply to”, or “Rejoinder” will appear in the article title) |
| correction | Applies to errata and clarifications |
| editorial | Applies to items labeled as editorials or editor's notes in the table of contents or that contain the word “Editorial” in the title |
| letter | Applies to items that are clearly letters to the journal or to the journal Editor |
| monograph | Applies to items specifically labeled as monographs, either in the Table of Contents or on the first page of the article itself. |
| obituary | Applies to articles labeled as obituaries either in the Table of Contents or on the first page of the article itself. |
| postscript | Applies to articles specifically labeled or titled as “Postscript”. |
| retraction | Applies to a formal statement of retraction of a previously published work |
| review | Applies to a review of one or more published works, such as books, software, or videos |
| advertisement | Applies to non-article content that solicits money for products (e.g., books, journals, psychometric tests, lab equipment) or organizations (e.g., membership in scholarly associations or societies). Also applies to notices of workshops or seminars and to notices soliciting applicants for a job or position. |
| announcement | Applies to non-article content that provides “news” such as announcements of new APA or EPF journals, articles to be published in future issues, calls for papers or manuscripts (for new journals, special issues, or special sections), lists of books received for review, etc. These items typically are repeated across issues and journals. Frequently (but not always) announcements take the form of boxed text that is “floated” in the white space at the end of an article. |
| calendar | Applies to articles that list events, meetings, and conventions in a standardized form. Calendars typically are standalone items, but they are sometimes merged with other types of society or industry news. |
| continuing-education | Applies to non-article content that contain questions that readers can complete for continuing education credits. |
| cover | Use for inside and outside front and back covers of a printed issue (files are typically named C1, C2, C3, and C4). |
| index | Applies to non-article content with titles such as the Author Index, Contents for Volume, Keyword Index. |
| other | To be used very sparingly. Not to be used if the article or non-article content can be covered by a value listed here. |
| photograph | Applies to articles that consist solely of a photograph of a person or place and a caption. |
| plates | Applies to images at the end of an issue that are color versions of black-and-white figures published in the same issue. |
| poem | Applies to articles whose sole content is a poem. |
| publication-information | Applies to articles that provide various types of information about the journal in which they appear, such as acknowledgments of reviewers, instructions for authors, editorial boards, etc. |
| table-of-contents | Applies to articles that list the contents of a the issue in which they appear. |
| title-page | A reproduction of the cover that appears at the beginning of the issue, usually immediately before the table of contents for the issue. These are typically found in Hogrefe journals and in some issues of the American Psychologist. |