Article Subtitle

The subordinate name of a journal component such as an article


Subtitle. In the article metadata, the article subtitle and title are identified with two different elements and tagged separately, using the <article-title> and <subtitle> elements. Within a bibliographic reference citation, the subtitle cannot be preserved separately as this Tag Set identifies no cited-subtitle elements.

For references using either the <element-citation> or the <nlm-citation>, since these two reference models do not permit untagged text there are two choices:

For references using the <mixed-citation>, there are two choices:

Best Practice. Although this Tag Set cannot enforce either practice, retrieval performance will be enhanced if the subtitle is consistently placed within the <article-title> element (or the <source> element for book titles, proceedings titles, and other titles) for all cited material. Either with a <named-content> or as untagged text, the subtitle is easy to lose to searching. It is also not always obvious, particularly with historical or foreign material, which part of a multipart title is the main title and which the subtitle.


content-type Type of Content
xml:lang Language

Related Elements


Content Model


Expanded Content Model

(#PCDATA | email | ext-link | uri | inline-supplementary-material | related-article | related-object | bold | italic | monospace | overline | roman | sans-serif | sc | strike | underline | alternatives | inline-graphic | private-char | chem-struct | inline-formula | tex-math | mml:math | abbrev | milestone-end | milestone-start | named-content | styled-content | fn | target | xref | sub | sup | break)*


Any combination of:

This element may be contained in:

<title-group>, <verse-group>


<subtitle>The Final Recount</subtitle>