<series>

Series

Series information about a journal or book in a bibliographic reference or product.

Remarks

The word “series” is used in this Tag Set with two very different meanings. The element <series> is used for only one of those meanings, and the two elements <series-text> and <series-title> are used only for the other.
  • <series> is used in elements that include citation information (<element-citation>, <mixed-citation>, <related-article>, <related-object>, <product>) to identify publications that are part of a published series. For example, a publisher may issue a “Nursing References Series” that includes a book on the history of nursing, one on current nursing practices, one on nursing education, and another containing nurses’ professional experiences. The <series> element is used to capture that “Nursing Reference Series” information.
  • <series-text> and <series-title> are used to identify a collection of articles within an issue or a collection of similar articles across multiple issues. For example, a single issue of a journal may contain numerous colloquium papers that can be identified as part of a series by including <series-title>Colloquium</series-title> in each article’s metadata. An example of a series that spans issues is the “Inaugural Article” series in PNAS. These articles from newly-elected members of the National Academy of Sciences are all part of the same series, but appear in different issues of the journal.

Related Elements

Within the article metadata, the <series-title> element names a collection of articles within an issue or a collection of similar articles across multiple issues, while the <series-text> element provides textual description (if any) of the series.
The similarly named but unrelated element <series> element is used in elements that include bibliographic citation information (such as <element-citation>, <mixed-citation>, <related-article>, <related-object>, and <product>) to identify publications that are part of a published series. In this context, the <series> element acts as a container element to hold any series data mentioned in the reference.

Attributes

content-type Type of Content
id Document Internal Identifier
specific-use Specific Use
xml:base Base
xml:lang Language

Content Model

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

Expanded Content Model

(#PCDATA | email | ext-link | uri | inline-supplementary-material | related-article | related-object | hr | bold | fixed-case | italic | monospace | overline | overline-start | overline-end | roman | sans-serif | sc | strike | underline | underline-start | underline-end | ruby | alternatives | inline-graphic | private-char | chem-struct | inline-formula | tex-math | mml:math | abbrev | milestone-end | milestone-start | named-content | styled-content | fn | target | xref | sub | sup | x)*

Description

Any combination of:

This element may be contained in:

<element-citation>, <mixed-citation>, <nlm-citation>, <product>, <related-article>, <related-object>

Example 1

In an element-style bibliographic reference (punctuation and spacing removed): 
    ...
<ref id="B1">
<element-citation publication-type="journal">
<name>
<surname>Fenchel</surname>
<given-names>P</given-names>
</name>
<year iso-8601-date="1982">1982</year>
<article-title>Ecology of Heterotropic Microflagellates. IV.
Quantitative Occurrence and Importance as Bacterial
Consumers</article-title>
<source>Marine Ecology</source>
<series>Marine Ecology Progress Series</series>
<volume>8</volume>
<fpage>35</fpage>
<lpage>42</lpage>
</element-citation>
</ref>
...

Example 2

In a mixed-style bibliographic reference (punctuation and spacing preserved): 
    ...
<ref id="B1">
<mixed-citation publication-type="journal">
<string-name>
<surname>Fenchel</surname>, <given-names>P</given-names>
</string-name> (<year iso-8601-date="1982">1982</year>)
<article-title>Ecology of Heterotropic Microflagellates. IV.
Quantitative Occurrence and Importance as Bacterial
Consumers</article-title>. <source>Marine Ecology</source>.
<series>Marine Ecology Progress Series</series>.
<volume>8</volume>:<fpage>35</fpage>&ndash;
<lpage>42</lpage>.
</mixed-citation>
</ref>
...

Journal Archiving and Interchange Tag Library NISO JATS Version 1.1 (ANSI/NISO Z39.96-2015)

Version of December 2015

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