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<series> Series

Series information about a journal or book in a bibliographic reference or product.

Usage/Remarks

The word “series” is used in this Tag Set with two very different meanings. The element <series> is used for only one of those meanings, and the two elements <series-text> and <series-title> are used only for the other:
  • <series> is used in elements that include citation information (<element-citation>, <mixed-citation>, <related-article>, <related-object>, <product>) to identify publications that are part of a published series. For example, a publisher may issue a “Nursing References Series” that includes a book on the history of nursing, one on current nursing practices, one on nursing education, and another containing nurses’ professional experiences. The <series> element is used to capture that “Nursing References Series” information.
  • <series-text> and <series-title> are used to identify a collection of articles within an issue or a collection of similar articles across multiple issues. For example, a single issue of a journal may contain numerous colloquium papers that can be identified as part of a series by including <series-title>Colloquium</series-title> in each article’s metadata. An example of a series that spans issues is the “Inaugural Article” series in PNAS. These articles from newly-elected members of the National Academy of Sciences are all part of the same series, but appear in different issues of the journal.
Related Elements
Within the article metadata, the <series-title> element names a collection of articles within an issue or a collection of similar articles across multiple issues, while the <series-text> element provides a textual description (if any) of the series.
The similarly named but unrelated element <series> is used in elements that include bibliographic citation information (such as <element-citation>, <mixed-citation>, <related-article>, <related-object>, and <product>) to identify publications that are part of a published series. In this context, the <series> element acts as a container element to hold any series data mentioned in the reference.
Attributes
content-type
specific-use

Multi-lang Attributes

lang-focus
lang-focus-custom
lang-group
lang-source
lang-source-custom
lang-translate
lang-variant
lang-variant-custom

Base Attributes

id
xml:base
xml:lang
Models and Context
May be contained in
<element-citation>, <mixed-citation>, <nlm-citation>, <product>, <related-article>, <related-object>
Description
Any combination of:
Content Model
<!ELEMENT  series       (#PCDATA %series-elements;)*                 >
Expanded Content Model
(#PCDATA | email | ext-link | uri | inline-supplementary-material |
related-article | related-object | hr | 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 | fn | target | xref | sub | sup |
x)*
Tagged Sample

In citations

Mixed citation
...
<ref id="B1">
 <mixed-citation publication-type="journal">
  <string-name><surname>Fenchel</surname>, <given-names>P</given-names>
  </string-name> (<year iso-8601-date="1982">1982</year>)
  <article-title>Ecology of Heterotropic Microflagellates. IV.
  Quantitative Occurrence and Importance as Bacterial
  Consumers</article-title>. <source>Marine Ecology</source>.
  <series>Marine Ecology Progress Series</series>.
  <volume>8</volume>:<fpage>35</fpage>&ndash;<lpage>42</lpage>.
 </mixed-citation>
</ref>
...
Element citation
...
<ref id="B1">
 <element-citation publication-type="journal">
  <name>
   <surname>Fenchel</surname>
   <given-names>P</given-names>
  </name>
  <year iso-8601-date="1982">1982</year>
  <article-title>Ecology of Heterotropic Microflagellates. IV.
   Quantitative Occurrence and Importance as Bacterial
   Consumers</article-title>
  <source>Marine Ecology</source>
  <series>Marine Ecology Progress Series</series>
  <volume>8</volume>
  <fpage>35</fpage>
  <lpage>42</lpage>
 </element-citation>
</ref>
...