Academic titles or professional certifications displayed following a personal name (for example, “MD”, “PhD”).
This element is used inside container elements about the person, such as the <contrib> element or the <speaker>. This element relates only to people, and typically follows the name of a person.
As part of information about a contributor, the <suffix> element should be used for parts of people’s names (for example, “Jr.”), not for degrees. The academic degrees are part of the information that is known about a contributor, not part of the name of the contributor, and should take the <degrees> element. Degree and certification information may be placed directly following the person’s name within the contributor information:
<contrib ...>
<name>
<surname>Smyth-Jones</surname>
<given-names>George</given-names>
<suffix>Sr.</suffix>
</name>
<degrees>PhD</degrees>
</contrib>
Best Practice In Citations: When a bibliographic citation includes information about the degrees held by a cited author, those degrees should typically be treated as text and not tagged.
<!ELEMENT degrees (#PCDATA %degrees-elements;)* >
(#PCDATA)*
Text, numbers, or special characters, zero or more
...
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<contrib-group>
<contrib contrib-type="author">
<name><surname>Silverstein</surname>
<given-names>Michael Q.</given-names>
</name>
<xref ref-type="aff" rid="affDorelco"><sup>1</sup></xref>
</contrib>
<contrib contrib-type="author">
<name><surname>Taylor</surname>
<given-names>James C.</given-names>
</name>
<degrees>Ph D</degrees>
<aff id="affDorelco">Dorelco Corporation Ltd.</aff>
<aff id="IIDR">
<institution>Institute of Infectious Disease Research
</institution>
<addr-line>Oberlin, Washington 96204;</addr-line>
</aff>
<aff id="UWW">
<institution>Department of Pathobiology,
University of WallieWash</institution>
<addr-line>Oberlin, Washington 96204</addr-line>
</aff>
<aff>
<institution>University of Kuopio</institution>
<addr-line>Kuopio</addr-line>
<country>Finland</country>
</aff>
<address>
<institution>Kalakukko Corporation</institution>
<addr-line>17 West Jefferson St.</addr-line>
<addr-line>Suite 207</addr-line>
<addr-line>New South Finland, MD 20856.</addr-line>
<phone>(301) 754-5766</phone>
<fax>(301) 754-5765</fax>
<email>jct@kalakukko.com.fi</email>
<uri>http://www.kalakukko.com</uri>
</address>
</contrib>
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