Section 3.2.5.4. Journal housekeeping, citation and indexing entries

The categories used for journal housekeeping and indexing are as follows:

The data items in the JOURNAL category group are concerned with the processing of an article for publication. They are used mainly by the staff of the editorial office of an academic journal and are of limited interest to the practising crystallographer. They are not defined explicitly in the core dictionary and are included here only for the sake of completeness.

(a) JOURNAL

(b) JOURNAL_INDEX

Of the data items in the JOURNAL category, the only ones that are likely to be of interest to users other than the journal staff are the items recording the bibliographic information upon publication, namely _journal_name_full, _journal_year, _journal_volume, _journal_page_first and _journal_page_last.

Data items in the JOURNAL_INDEX category allow terms to be embedded within a CIF that will be used for generating journal indexes. Example 3.2.5.2 shows how this is done; the possible values of _journal_index_type are defined by the journal and for Acta Crystallographica and other IUCr journals may be one of S (subject index), I (inorganic formula index), M (metal-organic formula index) or O (organic formula index).