Journal Article Tag Suite

Abbreviation	JATS
Status	Published
First published	31 March 2003
Latest version	NISO JATS 1.2; 8 February 2019
Organization	National Information Standards Organization; American National Standards Institute;
Authors	National Center for Biotechnology Information; National Information Standards Organization;
Base standards	XML
Related standards	NISO Standards Tag Set (NISO-STS); Book Interchange Tag Suite (BITS); SciELO Publishing Schema (SPS);
Domain	Academic publishing; Semantic publishing;
Website	jats.nlm.nih.gov

The Journal Article Tag Suite (JATS) is format used to describe scientific literature published online. It is a technical standard developed by the National Information Standards Organization (NISO) and approved by the American National Standards Institute with the code Z39.96-2012.

The NISO project was a continuation of the work done by NLM/NCBI, and popularized by the NLM's PubMed Central as a de facto standard for archiving and interchange of scientific open-access journals and its contents with XML.

With the NISO standardization the NLM initiative has gained a wider reach, and several other repositories, such as SciELO and Redalyc, adopted the XML formatting for scientific articles.

The JATS provides a set of XML elements and attributes for describing the textual and graphical content of journal articles as well as some non-article material such as letters, editorials, and book and product reviews. JATS allows for descriptions of the full article content or just the article header metadata; and allows other kinds of contents, including research and non-research articles, letters, editorials, and book and product reviews.