The full edition statement for a cited or referenced publication.
Related Essay: For a discussion on the use of <edition>, see Ordinal Numbers.
This element is used in bibliographic references (<element-citation> and <mixed-citation>).
<!ELEMENT edition (#PCDATA %edition-elements;)* >
(#PCDATA)*
Text, numbers, or special characters, zero or more
<element-citation>, <mixed-citation>, <nlm-citation>, <product>, <related-article>, <related-object>
In an element-style citation (punctuation and spacing removed):
...
<ref id="B6">
<element-citation>
<collab>National Committee for Clinical Laboratory
Standards</collab>
<source>Performance standards for antimicrobial disk
susceptibility tests</source>
<comment>Approved standard</comment>
<edition>7</edition>
<fpage>M2</fpage>
<lpage>A7</lpage>
<publisher-loc>Wayne, Pa</publisher-loc>
<publisher-name>National Committee for Clinical Laboratory
Standards</publisher-name>
<year iso-8601-date="2000">2000</year>
</element-citation>
</ref>
...
In a mixed-style citation (punctuation and spacing preserved):
<article>
<front>...</front>
<body>...</body>
<back>...
<ref-list>
<title>REFERENCES</title>
...
<ref id="B6">
<mixed-citation>
<collab>National Committee for Clinical Laboratory
Standards</collab>.
<source>Performance standards for antimicrobial disk
susceptibility tests</source>.
<comment>Approved standard</comment>.
<edition>7</edition><sup>th</sup> ed.
p. <fpage>M2</fpage>–
<lpage>A7</lpage>.
<publisher-loc>Wayne, Pa</publisher-loc>:
<publisher-name>National Committee for Clinical
Laboratory Standards</publisher-name>;
<year iso-8601-date="2000">2000</year>.
</mixed-citation>
</ref>
...
</ref-list>
</back>
</article>
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