All given names of a person, such as the first name, middle names, maiden name if used as part of the married name, etc.
As a typical example, in the name “John Q. Delancey Public”, the <given-names> would be “John Q. Delancey” and the <surname> would be “Public”.
Care should be taken with multipart names to divide the components into family names (<surname>) and personal names (<given-names>) in as culturally appropriate a fashion as possible. Initials can be preserved separately using the @initials attribute.
<surname initials=”Q”>Llanos De La Torre Quiralte</surname> <given-names initials=”M”>M</given-names> <surname initials=”U”>Usdin</surname> <given-names initials=”BT”>B. Tommie</given-names> <surname initials=”GM” >Gonzalez Martin</surname> <given-names initials=”J”>Josquin</given-names> <surname initials=”M”>McNair</surname> <given-names initials=”KPC”>Kenneth Pritchard Carnu</given-names> <surname initials=”B”>Ben Gurion</surname> <given-names initials=”D”>David</given-names> <surname initials=”B”>Ben-Gurion</surname> <given-names initials=”D”>David</given-names> <surname initials=”M”>de la Mare</surname> <given-names initials=”WJ”>Walter John</given-names> <surname initials=”D” >Di Iorio</surname> <given-names initials=”S”>Silvio</given-names> <surname initials=”T”>Toulouse-Lautrec-Monfa, de</surname> <given-names initials=”H”>Henri Marie Raymond</given-names> <surname initials=”L”>Lewis</surname> <given-names initials=”CS”>CS</given-names> <surname initials=”L”>Lewis</surname> <given-names initials=”CS”>C.S.</given-names>
Best Practice: There is no single style that best handles all single (one-part) names. Tibetan, Indian, and Burmese single names that are not surnames may be tagged as <given-names>; there is no need to commit the tag abuse of calling the given name a surname. Most westernized single names (“Pele”, “Prince”, “Babyface”, “Aztek”) are more likely to be retrieved properly if they are tagged as <surname>s.
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In an element-style bibliographic reference (punctuation and spacing removed):
... <ref> <element-citation publication-type="journal" publication-format="print"> <name><surname>Llanos De La Torre Quiralte</surname> <given-names>M</given-names></name> <name><surname>Garijo Ayestaran</surname> <given-names>M</given-names></name> <name><surname>Poch Olive</surname> <given-names>ML</given-names></name> <article-title xml:lang="es">Evolucion de la mortalidad infantil de La Rioja (1980-1998)</article-title> <trans-title xml:lang="en">Evolution of the infant mortality rate in la Rioja in Spain (1980-1998)</trans-title> <source>An Esp Pediatr</source> <year iso-8601-date="2001-11">2001</year> <month>Nov</month> <volume>55</volume> <issue>5</issue> <fpage>413</fpage> <lpage>420</lpage> <comment>Figura 3, Tendencia de mortalidad infantil [Figure 3, Trends in infant mortality]; p. 418. Spanish</comment> </element-citation> </ref> ...
In a mixed-style bibliographic reference (punctuation and spacing preserved):
... <ref> <mixed-citation publication-type="journal" publication-format="print"> <string-name><surname>Llanos De La Torre Quiralte</surname>, <given-names>M</given-names></string-name>, <string-name><surname>Garijo Ayestaran</surname>, <given-names>M</given-names></string-name>, <string-name><surname>Poch Olive</surname>, <given-names>ML</given-names></string-name>. <article-title xml:lang="es">Evolucion de la mortalidad infantil de La Rioja (1980-1998)</article-title>. [<trans-title xml:lang="en">Evolution of the infant mortality rate in la Rioja in Spain (1980-1998)</trans-title>]. <source>An Esp Pediatr</source>. <year iso-8601-date="2001-11">2001</year> <month>Nov</month>;<volume>55</volume>(<issue>5</issue>): <fpage>413</fpage>–<lpage>420</lpage>. Figura 3, Tendencia de mortalidad infantil [Figure 3, Trends in infant mortality]; p. 418. Spanish.</mixed-citation> </ref> ...
... <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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