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Documentation for the IOP Publishing specific implementation of BITS 2.0 for book content
Front Matter
Capture the front matter information for a book inside a <front-matter> element.
Front Matter Part
<front-matter-part> is a mandatory element for all <front-matter> as a container for the front-matter metadata.
Front Matter Contributors
Front matter contributor information is captured in a <contrib-group> element.
Contributor Cross References
Contributors with any associated affiliation, footnote or biography information must have that information explicitly linked using an <xref> element.

Books
Documentation for the IOP Publishing specific implementation of BITS 2.0 for book content
- Root element
  The root element for a book is a <book> element.
- Book Meta
  <book-meta >is a mandatory element for all books as a container for the book level metadata.
- Front Matter
  Capture the front matter information for a book inside a <front-matter> element.
  - Front Matter Part
    <front-matter-part> is a mandatory element for all <front-matter> as a container for the front-matter metadata.
    - Front Matter Title
      Capture the title of the front matter section in a <title> element inside a <title-group> element.
    - Front Matter Contributors
      Front matter contributor information is captured in a <contrib-group> element.
      - Authors and Editors
        Capture each author or editor contributor in a <contrib> element child of <contrib-group>
      - Collaborations
        Capture a collaboration group in a <contrib> element child of <contrib-group>
      - Contributor Cross References
        Contributors with any associated affiliation, footnote or biography information must have that information explicitly linked using an <xref> element.
      - Affiliations
        Capture affiliations in <aff> elements.
    - Page Numbers
      Capture first and last page numbers for a chapter in fpage and lpage elements respectively.
    - Front Matter Self-uris
      Capture the filenames of the PDF and EPUB representations of the front matter in <self-uri> elements.
  - Dedication
    Capture book dedication information in a <dedication> element.
  - Preface
  - Acknowledgments
    Capture the book acknowledgments in a <ack> element.
  - Full Biographies
    Capture full author biographies in a <bio> element.
  - Glossary
    Capture glossary information inside a <glossary> element.
  - Other Front Matter
    Capture non-standard prelim sections in a <front-matter-part> element.
- Chapters
  All of a books chapters must be captured in seperate <book-part > elements within a <book-body> element.
- Back Matter
  Capture the book back matter inside a <book-back> element.
- Version and Change Log

Contributor Cross References

Contributors with any associated affiliation, footnote or biography information must have that information explicitly linked using an <xref> element.

Each <xref> element must have a @ref-type attribute with the value set depending on what is being linked to. The allowed values are:

Table 1. `@ref-type`Allowed Values
Xref Target	`@ref-type` Value
Affiliation	aff
Biography	bio
Footnote	fn

Each <xref> element must have a @rid attribute which contains the identifier for the target of the xref.

If the target of the <xref> has a <label> element then the text of that label must also be included as the text content of the <xref>.

Example

<contrib contrib-type="author">
  <name name-style="western">
    <surname>McGurn</surname>
    <given-names>Arthur R</given-names>
  </name>
  <xref ref-type="aff" rid="bk978-0-7503-3579-9aff1"/>
  <xref ref-type="bio" rid="bk978-0-7503-3579-9bio1"/>
</contrib>