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The following explanations follow mainly the reference book of Norman Walsh and Leonard Muellner (see here).

Typically a book is a larger bit of work than an article. Its structure comprises meta information (<bookinfo>), which describe the author, the title and the copyright information. It might also have a Preface Vorwort and several chapters which are divided into paragraphs. In addition it is possible to have appendixes, literatur reference list, a glossary and an index.

An article is much shorter as it does not contain as much parts as a book and is usually only structured into individual chapters. But it does also contain meta information (<articleinfo>) and can have appendixes, a literature reference list, glossary and index.