Name of an institution or organization (for example, university, corporation) with which a contributor is affiliated.
All levels of a multi-tier organization are listed within a single <aff> element; for example, a program, a department, and a university may be part of the same <aff>. Similarly, both a division and a corporation would be inside one <aff>.
Best Practice: In a typical case, the @id attribute of an <aff> element will be pointed to from one or more <contrib> elements, establishing the linkage between them.
Even if the explicitly tagged numbers or symbols for author linkages are preserved in conversion, the ID/IDREF linking mechanism should be maintained or created during conversion.
<!ELEMENT aff (#PCDATA %aff-elements;)* >
(#PCDATA | addr-line | country | fax | institution | phone | email | ext-link | uri | inline-supplementary-material | related-article | related-object | hr | bold | italic | monospace | overline | overline-start | overline-end | roman | sans-serif | sc | strike | underline | underline-start | underline-end | alternatives | inline-graphic | 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 | break | label)*
Any combination of:
<aff-alternatives>, <book-meta>, <book-part-meta>, <collab>, <collection-meta>, <contrib>, <contrib-group>, <person-group>, <sig-block>
Following a contributor group in metadata with contributors linked to affiliations by cross-reference:
...
<book-meta>
...
<contrib-group>
<contrib contrib-type="editor" rid="bid.m.1">
<name><surname>McEntyre</surname>
<given-names>Jo</given-names></name>
<xref ref-type="aff" rid="bid.m.1"/>
</contrib>
<contrib contrib-type="editor" rid="bid.m.1">
<name><surname>Ostell</surname>
<given-names>Jim</given-names></name>
<xref ref-type="aff" rid="bid.m.1"/>
</contrib>
</contrib-group>
<aff id="bid.m.1">
<institution>National Center for Biotechnology Information
(NCBI), National Library of Medicine, National Institutes
of Health</institution>,
<addr-line>Bethesda, MD 20892-6510</addr-line>
</aff>
...</counts>
</book-meta>
...
In an element-style bibliographic reference (punctuation and spacing removed):
...
<ref>
<element-citation publication-type="journal" publication-format="print">
<person-group>
<name><surname>Pinet</surname>
<given-names>LM</given-names></name>
<aff>Departamento de Servicios de Salud de
Emergencia, Escuela de Posgrado, Universidad
de Maryland, Condado de Baltimore, USA.
<email>lpinetl@umbc.edu</email>
</aff>
</person-group>
<trans-title xml:lang="en">Prehospital emergency
care in Mexico City: the opportunities of the
healthcare system</trans-title>
<source>Salud Publica Mex</source>
<year iso-8601-date="2005-01">2005</year>
<month>Jan-Feb</month>
<volume>47</volume>
<issue>1</issue>
<fpage>64</fpage>
<lpage>71</lpage>
<comment>Spanish</comment>
</element-citation>
</ref>
...
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