person-group-type

Type of People in the Person Group

Role of the persons being named in <person-group> element (for example, authors, editors, members of the G&S chorus).

Used on Element: <person-group>

ValueMeaning
Text, numbers, or special charactersThe role played by the person group in the creation/production of the article, for example, “editors”.
Restriction@person-group-type is an optional attribute; there is no default.

Suggested usage

Although this attribute may contain any text, suggested types include:
all-authors
Used to identify a complete list of authors when a subset of the author group is used elsewhere in the citation. This may occur, for example, when a citation identifies both a book and a chapter within the book.
assignee
Persons to whom a patent is awarded
author
Content creators
compiler
Persons who put together a composite work from multiple sources
curator
Person or group responsible for data curation or archival curation
director
Directors
editor
Content editors
guest-editor
Content editors that have been invited to edit all or part of a work
inventor
Idea, software, or machine creators
transed
Editors of a translated version of a work
translator
Persons who translated the cited work from one language into another

Example

    ...
<person-group person-group-type="author">
<name><surname>Lawrence</surname>
<given-names>Ruth A</given-names></name>
</person-group>
...