Early decisions:

• Where acronyms appear in the text, they might appear in two forms simultaneously, if the authors have provided an inline expansion: with the <expan> first, followed by the <abbr>, or vice versa. In either case, the only one that should be marked up is the <abbr>, and it should be done as a <choice> tag:

  <choice><abbr>SLA</abbr><expan>Second Language Acquisition</expan></choice>
  

  Subsequent instances of the abbreviation can be marked simply with an <abbr> tag, and the XSLT can then retrieve the expansion as required from wherever it occurs in the document.
• Quotes will be rendered like this:

  <cit><quote>“a growing body of research indicating that mechanical drills do not facilitate the development of explicit or implicit knowledge”</quote> <ref target="#aski_2005">(Aski, 2005, p. 333)</ref></cit>
  

  However, it's not yet clear whether the original quotes should be left in place or not; awaiting editorial decisions on this.
• Where a quotation appears without any associated reference (because the reference is elsewhere in the text, or implied), the reference is supplied in an empty ref tag:

  
  ...finding themselves in the familiar position of having to <cit><quote>"constantly reevaluate their services to meet the changing needs of their service population"</quote><ref target="#farkas_2007"></ref></cit> and continuing in the struggle to <cit><quote>"define themselves as more than a repository for books"</quote><ref target="#farkas_2007"></ref></cit>, ...
  

  This enables all quotes to be linked to a reference.