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When you deposit material into Athena, you will be asked to provide metadata for the work you are submitting. Metadata is information about other information. When submitting to Athena, metadata is information about your scholarship which allows it to be findable and usable by others.

The following metadata fields are in the form, those marked with an asterisk * are required, all others are optional. Please note that HTML is not permitted in any of these fields. 

Author: Multiple authors can be added by using the “Add more” icon to add a new field for each author.  

*Title of Work: This space should include the main title of the work.  

Other Titles: Add any alternative titles here.

*Date of Issue: This is the publication date or date the work was completed, presented, or posted for the first time. 

Publisher: Use both the journal title, if applicable, and the publisher’s name. For example, to submit an article published in the journal Transactions on Quantum Engineering, it would be appropriate to enter "IEEE Transactions on Quantum Engineering" or "IEEE." For a book chapter originally published in an anthology from the Oxford University Press, enter "Oxford University Press." 

Citation: Enter the standard Chicago Manual of Style [17th edition] citation for the previously issued instance of this item. We recognize that this citation style is not the standard for all disciplines.  

Series/ Report No.: This section is extremely important for articles, journals, chapters, etc. 

Identifiers: Use the drop-down menu to choose an identifier if available. Please note, your work may have more than one identifier, please include every identifier the work has. 

• DOI: a digital identifier of an object, any object — physical, digital, or abstract. DOIs solve a common problem: keeping track of things. Designed to be used by humans as well as machines, DOIs are unique persistent identifiers that allow objects to be accessed reliably.  DOI.org - What is a DOI 

• Gov’t Docs #: Identifiers used in the federal Superintendent of Documents (SuDoc) classification system 

• ISBN: International Standard Book Number: assigned to individual books and ebooks. For more information, or to obtain an ISBN, visit Publisher Services at isbn-us.com. 

• ISMN: International Standard Music Number: used for notated music (scores, parts, vocal scores, etc.). For more info, see the U.S. ISMN agency 

• ISSN: International Standard Serials Number: used to identify and distinguish different journals. For more info, see ISSN.org 

• URI: Uniform Resource Identifier: used to provide a link for material on the web that has no identifying number. 

• Other: Any other type of identification number that is not listed above. 

Type: Pick the option that would best describe the type of work you are submitting to USMA Athena. If your work is not one of the types already listed, please select “other” and explain the type of work in the description section below. 

Language: Select the language of the main content of the item. If the language does not appear in the list, please select "Other." If the content does not really have a language (e.g. an image or dataset) please select "N/A."

Subject Keywords: Your work may have as many keywords as you like, please hit “enter” after each individual keyword or keyword phrase. 

Abstract: A short paragraph or executive summary describing the content that is being deposited. For journal articles and book chapters, use the version from the official publication. 

Sponsors: This space should include submitting authors Department of Employ (or Cadet’s primary field of study) and any other affiliate organizations, including, but not limited to scholarly groups, clubs, other universities, organizations, or other affiliations, and sources of funding. If the item is based on sponsored research, enter the sponsoring agency and grant number(s) affiliated. 

Description: If you are depositing a pre-print or post-print publication, this field should include a link to the version of record at the journal or publisher main website. You may also include pertinent additional information about the work, such conference proceeding details.