article-authoring-schema.json

{
  "$id": "https://pandoc.org/schema/article-authoring.json",
  "$schema": "http://json-schema.org/draft-07/schema#",
  "title": "JOSS Article Metadata",
  "type": "object",
  "properties": {
    "authors": {
      "type": "array",
      "description": "List of all authors.",
      "items": {
        "type": "object",
        "properties": {
          "name": {
            "type": "string",
            "description": "The full name of an author."
          },
          "affiliation": {
            "oneOf": [
              {"type": "string"},
              {"type": "number"}
            ],
            "description": "An affiliation index, or a comma separated list of affiliation indices."
          }
        }
      }
    },
    "affiliations": {
      "type": "array",
      "description": "List of institutions; each item listed here should relate to at least one author.",
      "items": {
        "type": "object",
        "properties": {
          "name": {
            "type": "string",
            "description": "The full name of the affiliation; usually the name of an institute or company."
          },
          "index": {
            "type": "number",
            "description": "Integer specifying the relative number of this affiliation; see also authors.affiliation."
          }
        }
      }
    },
    "title": {
      "type": "string",
      "description": "The document's title."
    },
    "tags": {
      "type": "array",
      "description": "List of relevant article tags/keywords.",
      "items": {
        "type": "string",
        "description": "A single tag or key-word; may contain spaces."
      }
    },
    "date": {
      "type": "string",
      "description": "The date on which the article was written or published. The date format can be chosen freely."
    }
  }
}