The brill.com platform provides access to authors and editors to their publications. Requirement for this option is an email address in the XML of the book, chapter or article. After loading the content to brill.com, an automated email is sent to this email address with a token to arrange access. Hereafter samples are given of the addition of the email address to the <contrib>-information of a monograph, a chapter in an edited volume and an article in a journal issue.

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<book-meta>
	<book-id book-id-type="doi">10.1163/9789004510456</book-id>
	<book-title-group>
		<book-title>State Consent to Foreign Military Intervention during Civil Wars</book-title>
	</book-title-group>
	<contrib-group>
		<contrib contrib-type="author">
			<name name-style="western">
				<surname>Hasar</surname>
				<given-names>Seyfullah</given-names>
			</name>
  			<email xlink:href="mailto:seyfullah.hasar@dicle.edu.tr">seyfullah.hasar@dicle.edu.tr</email>
 		</contrib>
	</contrib-group>

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email addresses in edited volumes

in In case of an edited volume, email address should be added both to the volume editor(s) - similar as above - as well as the author(s) of the difference chapters.

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email address of the author of an article

the The next example shows the email addresses in the <contrib>-information in the XML of an article written by two authors.

<contrib-group>
	<contrib contrib-type="author">
		<name name-style="western">
			<surname>De Vito</surname>
			<given-names>Christian G.</given-names>
		</name>
		<email xlink:href="mailto:cdevito@uni-bonn.de">cdevito@uni-bonn.de</email>
		<xref ref-type="aff" rid="AFF000001"/>
	</contrib>
	<contrib contrib-type="author">
		<contrib-id contrib-id-type="orcid" authenticated="true">https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6278-0415</contrib-id>
		<name name-style="western">
			<surname>Müller</surname>
			<given-names>Viola Franziska</given-names>
		</name>
		<email xlink:href="mailto:viola.mueller@uni-bonn.de">viola.mueller@uni-bonn.de</email>
		<xref ref-type="aff" rid="AFF000001"/>
	</contrib>
	<aff id="AFF000001">
		<institution-wrap>
			<institution>University of Bonn<Vienna</institution>
			<institution-id institution-id-type="ringgold">27258</institution-id>
		</institution-wrap>
		<country>Germany<<country>Austria</country>
		<addr-line content-type="city">Bonn</addr-line>>Vienna</addr-line>
	</aff>
</contrib-group>

email address of the corresponding author

The sample below shows the <contrib-group> for an article with multiple authors. The @corresp="yes"  is added to the first author. Her email address is added to her <contrib>-information. In this particular case, a footnote is added to indicate that she is the corresponding author.

<contrib-group>
	<contrib contrib-type="author" corresp="yes">
		<name name-style="western"><surname>Garris</surname><given-names>Sarah S.</given-names></name>
		<xref ref-type="aff" rid="AFF000001"/>
		<email xlink:href="mailto:ssgarris@memphis.edu">ssgarris@memphis.edu</email>
		<xref ref-type="fn" rid="FN000001">*</xref>
	</contrib>
	<contrib contrib-type="author">
		<name name-style="western"><surname>Rohrer</surname><given-names>Karl N.</given-names></name>
		<xref ref-type="aff" rid="AFF000001"/>
	</contrib>
	<contrib contrib-type="author">
		<name name-style="western"><surname>Ferkin</surname><given-names>Michael H.</given-names></name>
		<xref ref-type="aff" rid="AFF000001"/>
	</contrib>
	<aff id="AFF000001">
		<institution content-type="dept">Department of Biological Science</institution>, 
		<institution>University of Memphis</institution>, 
		<addr-line>Ellington Hall, Memphis TN 38152</addr-line>, 
		<country>USA</country>
	</aff>
</contrib-group>