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 | break | bold | italic | monospace | overline | roman | sans-serif | sc | strike | underline | label | fn | target | xref | sub | sup)*
Any combination of:
<aff-alternatives>, <article-meta>, <collab>, <contrib>, <contrib-group>, <front-stub>, <journal-meta>, <person-group>
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>
...
In a contributor group in article metadata:
... <article-meta> <article-id pub-id-type="pmid">...</article-id> <title-group>...</title-group> <contrib-group> <contrib contrib-type="author"> <name><surname>Forster</surname> <given-names>Anne Williams</given-names> </name> <role>research physiotherapist</role> <xref ref-type="aff" rid="StLukes"/> </contrib> <contrib contrib-type="author"> <name><surname>Young</surname> <given-names>John G.</given-names></name> <role>consultant physician</role> <xref ref-type="aff" rid="RoyalInf"/> <author-comment><p>on behalf of the Day Hospital Group</p></author-comment> </contrib> </contrib-group> <aff id="StLukes">Department of Health Care for the Elderly, St Luke’s Hospital, Bradford BD5 0NA</aff> <aff id="RoyalInf">Academic Section of Geriatric Medicine, Royal Infirmary, Glasgow G4 0SF</aff> <pub-date pub-type="pub" iso-8601-date="1999-03-27"> ...</pub-date> ... </article-meta> ...
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