<ref> Reference Item

One item in a bibliographic list.

Usage/Remarks

A <ref> is typically a citation describing a referenced work (see Tagging References). This Tag Set allows notes as well as citations in a bibliographic list, but best practice is to place notes in a <fn-group> or <notes> section and use <ref-list> only for bibliographic citations.
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Content Model
<!ELEMENT  ref          %ref-model;                                  >
Expanded Content Model

(label?, (citation-alternatives | element-citation | mixed-citation | note | x)+)

Tagged Samples
Citations inside <ref>
Mixed citations
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<back>
 <ref-list>
  <title>References</title>
  <ref id="B8">
   <label>8. </label>
   <mixed-citation>
    <string-name><surname>Weissert</surname>,
    <given-names>W</given-names></string-name>,
    <string-name><surname>Livieratos</surname>,
    <given-names>B</given-names></string-name>.
    <article-title>Effects and costs of day-care
    services for the chronically ill: a randomized
    experiment</article-title>. <source>Medical Care</source>
    <year iso-8601-date="1980">1980</year>; <volume>18</volume>:
    <fpage>567</fpage>&ndash;<lpage>584</lpage>.
    <pub-id pub-id-type="publisher-id">WES-6772889</pub-id>.
   </mixed-citation>
  </ref>
  <ref>...</ref>
 </ref-list>
</back>
...
Element citation
...
<back>
 <ref-list>
  <title>References</title>
  <ref id="bid.41">
   <label>1</label>
   <element-citation>
    <person-group>
     <name><surname>Olson</surname>
      <given-names>M</given-names></name>
     ...
    </person-group>
    <article-title>A common language for physical 
     mapping of the human genome</article-title>
    <source>Science</source>
    <year iso-8601-date="1989">1989</year>
    <volume>245</volume>
    <issue>4925</issue>
    <fpage>1434</fpage>
    <lpage>1435</lpage>
    <pub-id pub-id-type="pmid">2781285</pub-id>
   </element-citation>
  </ref>
  <ref>...</ref>
 </ref-list>
</back>
...
Notes (<note>) inside <ref>
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<ref id="c33">
 <label>33.</label>
 <note>
  <p>While the samples appear homogeneous in terms of local variations in 
   transition energy and PL intensity, the response to external electric fields 
   is strongly inhomogeneous, which can most likely be attributed to local 
   variations in the AlGaN back contact conductivity as well as inhomogeneities 
   in the passivation process.</p>
 </note>
</ref>
...
...
<ref id="c35">
 <label>35.</label>
 <note>
  <p>The geometric optimization and electronic transport properties are 
   all calculated by a developed <italic>ab-initio</italic> software package 
   Atomistix ToolKit, which is based on the spin-polarized density-functional 
   theory combined with the non-equilibrium Greens functions. ...</p>
 </note>
</ref>
...
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