<volume>

Volume Number

Number of a journal (or other document) within a series.

Remarks

Related Essay: For a discussion on the use of <volume>, see Ordinal Numbers.
The <volume> element may be used in two contexts: (1) as a part of the metadata describing the document itself, and (2) as part of the description of a cited work inside a bibliographic reference (<element-citation> or <mixed-citation>).

Related Elements

The related <volume-id> element is used to record an identifier, such as a DOI, that describes an entire volume of a journal or series.

Attributes

Content Model

<!ELEMENT  volume       (#PCDATA %volume-elements;)*                 >

Expanded Content Model

(#PCDATA)*

Description

Text, numbers, or special characters, zero or more

This element may be contained in:

Example 1

In article metadata:
...
<article-meta>...  
<volume>1540</volume>
<issue>1</issue>
<isbn content-type="conf-proc">978-0-7354-1164-7</isbn>
<fpage seq="1">113</fpage>
<lpage>124</lpage>
</article-meta>
...
...
<article-meta>
<article-id pub-id-type="pmid">10092260</article-id>
<title-group>
<article-title>Systematic review of day hospital care
for elderly people</article-title>
</title-group>
<contrib-group>...</contrib-group>
<aff>...</aff>
<author-notes>...</author-notes>
<pub-date publication-format="print" date-type="pub" iso-8601-date="1999-03-27">
<day>27</day><month>03</month><year>1999</year></pub-date>
<volume>318</volume>
<issue>7187</issue>
<fpage>837</fpage>
<lpage>841</lpage>
<history>
<date date-type="accepted" iso-8601-date="1999-01-29">
<day>29</day><month>01</month><year>1999</year></date>
</history>
<permissions>
<copyright-statement>...</copyright-statement>
<copyright-year>...</copyright-year>
</permissions>
<abstract>...</abstract>
</article-meta>
...

Example 2

In an element-style bibliographic reference (punctuation and spacing removed):
...
<ref-list>...
<ref id="B8">
<label>8</label>
<element-citation>
<person-group>
<name><surname>Weissert</surname>
<given-names>W</given-names></name>
<name><surname>Wan</surname>
<given-names>T</given-names></name>
<name><surname>Livieratos</surname>
<given-names>B</given-names></name>
<name><surname>Katz</surname>
<given-names>S</given-names></name>
</person-group>
<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>
<lpage>584</lpage>
<pub-id pub-id-type="pmid">6772889</pub-id>
</element-citation>
</ref>
...</ref-list>
...

Example 3

In a mixed-style bibliographic reference (punctuation and spacing preserved):
...
<ref-list>...
<ref id="B8">
<label>8</label>
<mixed-citation>
<string-name><surname>Weissert</surname>,
<given-names>W</given-names></string-name>,
<string-name><surname>Wan</surname>,
<given-names>T</given-names></string-name>,
<string-name><surname>Livieratos</surname>,
<given-names>B</given-names></string-name>,
<string-name><surname>Katz</surname>,
<given-names>S</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="pmid">6772889</pub-id>.
</mixed-citation>
</ref>
...</ref-list>
...