CRediT – Contributor Role Taxonomy

Capture Contributor Role Taxonomy terms for a contributor in a <role> element child of the relevant <contrib>.

The <role> element must contain @vocab, @vocab-identifier, @vocab-term, and @vocab-term-identifier attributes and may optionally contain a @degree-contribution attribute with values as per the table below. The value of the element must contain the relevant vocabulary term.

If a contributor has more than one contributor role capture each in a separate <role> element.


Attribute	Description	Value
`@vocab`	Defines the name of the credit taxonomy.	credit
`@vocab-identifier`	Defines the identifier for the credit vocabulary	https://credit.niso.org/
`@vocab-term`	Defines the name of the term being applied.	[Term]
`@vocab-term-identifier`	Defines the identifier for the specific term being applied.	[Term Identifier]
`@degree-contribution`	Defines the degree of contribution for the author	lead, equal or supporting

The list of valid @vocab-term and @vocab-term-identifier values are in the table below:


Taxonomy Term	`@vocab-term`	`@vocab-term-identifier`
Conceptualization	Conceptualization	https://credit.niso.org/contributor-roles/conceptualization/
Data curation	Data curation	https://credit.niso.org/contributor-roles/data-curation/
Formal analysis	Formal analysis	https://credit.niso.org/contributor-roles/formal-analysis/
Funding acquisition	Funding acquisition	https://credit.niso.org/contributor-roles/funding-acquisition/
Investigation	Investigation	https://credit.niso.org/contributor-roles/investigation/
Methodology	Methodology	https://credit.niso.org/contributor-roles/methodology/
Project administration	Project administration	https://credit.niso.org/contributor-roles/project-administration/
Resources	Resources	https://credit.niso.org/contributor-roles/resources/
Software	Software	https://credit.niso.org/contributor-roles/software/
Supervision	Supervision	https://credit.niso.org/contributor-roles/supervision/
Validation	Validation	https://credit.niso.org/contributor-roles/validation/
Visualization	Visualization	https://credit.niso.org/contributor-roles/visualization/
Writing – original draft	Writing – original draft	https://credit.niso.org/contributor-roles/writing-original-draft/
Writing – review & editing	Writing – review & editing	https://credit.niso.org/contributor-roles/writing-review-editing/

Single Role

<contrib contrib-type="author">
  <name name-style="western">
    <surname>Bloggs</surname>
    <given-names>J</given-names>
  </name>
  <role vocab="credit" vocab-identifier="https://credit.niso.org/" vocab-term="Data curation" vocab-term-identifier="https://credit.niso.org/contributor-roles/data-curation/">Data curation</role>
  <xref ref-type="aff" rid="affiliation01">1</xref>
</contrib>

Multiple Roles

<contrib contrib-type="author" corresp="yes">
  <name name-style="western">
    <surname>Bloggs</surname>
    <given-names>A.</given-names>
  </name>
  <role vocab="credit" vocab-identifier="https://credit.niso.org/" vocab-term="Conceptualization" vocab-term-identifier="https://credit.niso.org/contributor-roles/conceptualization/" degree-contribution="lead">Conceptualization</role>
  <role vocab="credit" vocab-identifier="https://credit.niso.org/" vocab-term="Data curation" vocab-term-identifier="https://credit.niso.org/contributor-roles/data-curation/">Data curation</role>
  <role vocab="credit" vocab-identifier="https://credit.niso.org/" vocab-term="Formal analysis" vocab-term-identifier="https://credit.niso.org/contributor-roles/formal-analysis/">Formal analysis</role>
  <role vocab="credit" vocab-identifier="https://credit.niso.org/" vocab-term="Investigation" vocab-term-identifier="https://credit.niso.org/contributor-roles/investigation/">Investigation</role>
  <role vocab="credit" vocab-identifier="https://credit.niso.org/" vocab-term="Methodology" vocab-term-identifier="https://credit.niso.org/contributor-roles/methodology/">Methodology</role>
  <role vocab="credit" vocab-identifier="https://credit.niso.org/" vocab-term="Software" vocab-term-identifier="https://credit.niso.org/contributor-roles/software/">Software</role>
  <role vocab="credit" vocab-identifier="https://credit.niso.org/" vocab-term="Visualization" vocab-term-identifier="https://credit.niso.org/contributor-roles/visualization/">Visualization</role>
  <role vocab="credit" vocab-identifier="https://credit.niso.org/" vocab-term="Writing – original draft" vocab-term-identifier="https://credit.niso.org/contributor-roles/writing-original-draft/">Writing – original draft</role>
  <role vocab="credit" vocab-identifier="https://credit.niso.org/" vocab-term="Writing – review & editing" vocab-term-identifier="https://credit.niso.org/contributor-roles/writing-review-editing/">Writing – review &amp; editing</role>
  <xref ref-type="aff" rid="affiliation01">1</xref>
  <email>A.bloggs@email.com</email>
</contrib>