<collab>

Collaborative (Group) Author

Group of contributors credited under a single name, such as an organization credited as a contributor.

Remarks

This element may contain either a collaboration of individuals or the name of an organization (such as a laboratory, educational institution, corporation, or department) when such a unit acts as a contributor by, for example, authoring the work.
Not to be confused with the element <contrib-group> which is a container element that holds information such as the names and affiliations of a group of individual contributors.
This element may be used within bibliographic references (<element-citation> and <mixed-citation>).

Attributes

Content Model

<!ELEMENT  collab       (#PCDATA %collab-elements;)*                 >

Expanded Content Model

(#PCDATA | inline-supplementary-material | related-article | related-object | addr-line | city | country | fax | institution | institution-wrap | phone | postal-code | state | hr | break | contrib-group | address | aff | aff-alternatives | author-comment | bio | email | etal | ext-link | fn | on-behalf-of | role | uri | xref | bold | fixed-case | italic | monospace | overline | overline-start | overline-end | roman | sans-serif | sc | strike | underline | underline-start | underline-end | ruby | alternatives | inline-graphic | inline-media | private-char | chem-struct | inline-formula | tex-math | mml:math | abbrev | index-term | index-term-range-end | milestone-end | milestone-start | named-content | styled-content | sub | sup | x)*

Description

Any combination of:

This element may be contained in:

Example 1

Collaboration as an author:
...
<article-meta>
...
<contrib-group>
<contrib contrib-type="author">
<collab collab-type="committee">Technical Committee ISO/TC 108, 
Subcommittee SC 2</collab>
</contrib>
</contrib-group>
<fpage seq="1">1</fpage>
<lpage>23</lpage>
<history>
<date date-type="approved" iso-8601-date="2012-06-01">
<day>01</day>
<month>06</month>
<year>2012</year>
</date>
</history>
...
</article-meta>
...

Example 2

Collaboration with internal semantic material tagged:
...
<contrib-group>
<contrib contrib-type="author">
<collab>
<named-content content-type="program">Joint United
Nations Program on HIV/AIDS (UNAIDS)</named-content>,
<institution>World Health Organization</institution>,
Geneva, <country>Switzerland</country>
</collab>
</contrib>
<contrib contrib-type="author">
<collab>
<named-content content-type="program">Nonoccupational HIV
PEP Task Force, Brown University AIDS Program</named-content>
and the <institution>Rhode Island Department of
Health</institution>, Providence, Rhode Island</collab>
</contrib>
</contrib-group>
...

Example 3

In an element-style bibliographic reference (punctuation and spacing removed):
...  
<ref id="bid.1626">
<label>2</label>
<element-citation>
<collab>The BAC Resource Consortium</collab>
<year iso-8601-date="2001">2001</year>
<article-title>Integration of cytogenetic landmarks into
the draft sequence of the human genome</article-title>
<source>Nature</source>
<volume>409</volume>
<fpage>953</fpage>
<lpage>958</lpage>
<pub-id pub-id-type="pmid">11237021</pub-id>
</element-citation>
</ref>  
...

Example 4

In a mixed-style bibliographic reference (punctuation and spacing preserved):
...
<ref>
<mixed-citation publication-type="report">
<collab>National High Blood Pressure Education Program
(US)</collab>. <source>The fourth report on the
diagnosis, evaluation, and  treatment of high blood
pressure in children and adolescents</source>.
<edition>Rev. ed</edition>. <publisher-loc>Bethesda
(MD)</publisher-loc>: <publisher-name>National Heart,
Lung, and Blood Institute (US)</publisher-name>;
<year iso-8601-date="2005">2005</year>.
<size units="pages">48 p</size>. (NIH publication;
no. 05-5267).</mixed-citation>
</ref>
...
...
<ref id="c25">
<mixed-citation publication-type="report" publisher-type="government">
<collab>Federal Highway Administration</collab> (FHWA). 
(<year iso-8601-date="1992">1992</year>). &#x201C;<article-title>Evaluating 
scour at bridges</article-title>.&#x201D; <source><italic>Hydr. Engrg. Circular 
No. 18</italic></source>: <gov><italic>FHWA-IP-90-017</italic></gov>, 
<institution>Office of Engineering, Bridge Div.</institution>, Washington, 
D.C.</mixed-citation> 
</ref>
...

Example 5

Two collaborations referenced from the contributors:
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<article-meta>
...
<contrib-group>
<contrib contrib-type="author">
<string-name name-style="western">
<given-names>T.</given-names> <surname initials="A">Aaltonen</surname>
</string-name>
<xref ref-type="aff" rid="a618"/> 
<xref ref-type="collab" rid="c356"/> 
</contrib>
...
<contrib contrib-type="author">
<string-name name-style="western">
<given-names>V.M.</given-names> <surname initials="A">Abazov</surname>
</string-name>
<xref ref-type="aff" rid="a983"/> 
<xref ref-type="collab" rid="c489"/> 
</contrib>
...
<contrib contrib-type="author">
<string-name name-style="western">
<given-names>B.</given-names> <surname initials="A">Abbott</surname>
</string-name>
<xref ref-type="aff" rid="a714"/>
<xref ref-type="collab" rid="c489"/> 
</contrib>
...
<contrib>
<collab symbol="*" id="c356">CDF Collaboration</collab>
</contrib>
<contrib>
<collab symbol="&dagger;" id="c489">D0 Collaboration</collab>
</contrib>
</contrib-group>
<aff id="a618">
<label>12</label>
<institution>Division of High Energy Physics, Department 
of Physics, University of Helsinki and Helsinki Institute 
of Physics</institution>, <postal-code>FIN-00014</postal-code>, 
<city>Helsinki</city>, <country>Finland</country></aff>
...
<aff id="a983">
<label>48</label>
<institution>Joint Institute for Nuclear Research</institution>, 
<city>Dubna</city>, <country>Russia</country></aff>
...
<aff id="a714">
<label>112</label>
<institution>University of Oklahoma</institution>, 
<city>Norman</city>, <state>Oklahoma</state> 
<postal-code>73019</postal-code>, <country>USA</country></aff>
...
</article-meta>
...