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<anonymous> Anonymous

Placeholder for the name of a contributor where the actual name is unknown or not disclosed.

Usage/Remarks

The element <anonymous> may be tagged as an EMPTY placeholder, which can be used to generate display text, or <anonymous> may contain textual content.
An EMPTY <anonymous>
When the element <anonymous> is used solely for display generation, it is typically an empty placeholder. When printed or displayed on screen, the presence of <anonymous> causes text such as “anon.”, “Anonymous”, or “Author unknown” to be generated.
Textual <anonymous>
The major reason to place content into <anonymous> is to provide text for the display is too complicated or unique for automatic generation, for example, “Anonymous but attributed to Francis Bacon”.
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
<contrib>, <person-group>
Description
Text, numbers, or special characters, zero or more
Content Model
<!ELEMENT  anonymous    %anonymous-model;                            >
Expanded Content Model

(#PCDATA)*

Tagged Sample

In citations

Mixed citation
...
<ref id="pbiob001a">
 <mixed-citation publication-type="journal">
  <person-group person-group-type="author"><anonymous/>
  </person-group>. <article-title>A clinical evaluation of 
  the International Lymphoma Study Group classification of 
  non-Hodgkin&rsquo;s lymphoma. The Non-Hodgkin&rsquo;s 
  Lymphoma Classification Project</article-title>.
  <source>Blood</source> <year iso-8601-date="1997">1997</year>;
  <volume>89</volume>: <fpage>3909</fpage>&ndash;<lpage>3918</lpage>.
  <pub-id pub-id-type="pmid">9166827</pub-id>.
 </mixed-citation>
</ref>
...
Element citation
...
<ref id="pbiob001a">
 <element-citation publication-type="journal">
  <person-group person-group-type="author">
   <anonymous/>
  </person-group>
  <article-title>A clinical evaluation of the International
   Lymphoma Study Group classification of non-Hodgkin&rsquo;s
   lymphoma. The Non-Hodgkin&rsquo;s Lymphoma Classification
   Project</article-title>
  <source>Blood</source>
  <year iso-8601-date="1997">1997</year>
  <volume>89</volume>
  <fpage>3909</fpage>
  <lpage>3918</lpage>
  <pub-id pub-id-type="pmid">9166827</pub-id>
 </element-citation>
</ref>
...