diff --git a/data/templates/default.jats b/data/templates/default.jats
index 37f8f16a8..a99a76089 100644
--- a/data/templates/default.jats
+++ b/data/templates/default.jats
@@ -1,4 +1,7 @@
 <?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8" ?>
+$if(xml-stylesheet)$
+<?xml-stylesheet type="text/xsl" href="$xml-stylesheet$"?>
+$endif$
 <!DOCTYPE article PUBLIC "-//NLM//DTD JATS (Z39.96) Journal Publishing DTD v1.0 20120330//EN"
                   "JATS-journalpublishing1.dtd">
 $if(article.type)$