All research articles require the addition of English metadata. Abstracting & Indexing services may reject a journal for their program, or even remove an already indexed journal from their list, if these metadata are lacking.
For the online version of an article this is the minimal requirement:
- One abstract with a string of keywords in English, regardless the language of the article
- A title or translated title in English, regardless the language of the article
- Author affiliation(s) with, preferably, the author(s)' position within their institution and at least their department and/or faculty, institution name, city* and country
- Contact details (an e-mail address is the minimum requirement; in some countries fax is still customary)
*) Including the state in some English speaking nations (US, Canada, Australia)
Detailed instructions, with some examples, are to follow shortly on this page.
Production Editors shall do their utmost to complete such metadata in case they are missing. Incomplete copy for that matter may be submitted to the journal compositor for styling in order to gain time. In that case the vendor's kindly asked to "author query" for required elements that seem to be missing. An author query is included in a first proof (author proof), labeled with "AQ" in a box.
It must be noted that both Brill and Brill's vendors have access to author data and translated titles in a growing number of cases (though not all!) as these are in Editorial Manager. For journal articles with an automatic transfer to RSuite, such metadata can be found in a JATS file with the copy.
