<suffix>

Suffix

Qualifiers that follow a person’s name (for example, Sr., Jr., III, 3rd).

Remarks

Best Practice: The <suffix> element should be used for parts of people’s names, not for degrees, such as Ph.D. or DDS. 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 contrib-type="..." corresp="yes">
    <name>
      <surname>Smyth-Jones</surname>
      <given-names>George</given-names>
      <suffix>Sr.</suffix>
    </name>
    <degrees>PhD</degrees>
  </contrib>
Another valid style is to include the <degrees> later within the <contrib> element, interspersed with other types of contributor information such as <address>, <aff>, <bio>, and <email>.

Attributes

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

Content Model

<!ELEMENT  suffix       (#PCDATA %suffix-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 | inline-media | private-char | chem-struct | inline-formula | tex-math | mml:math | abbrev | index-term | index-term-range-end | milestone-end | milestone-start | named-content | styled-content | fn | target | xref | sub | sup | x)*

Description

Any combination of:

This element may be contained in:

<name>, <speaker>, <string-name>

Example 

...
<string-name><surname>Moellering</surname>
<given-names>R. C.</given-names>
<suffix>Jr.</suffix>
</string-name>
...

Journal Archiving and Interchange Tag Library NISO JATS Version 1.2 (ANSI/NISO Z39.96-2019)

Version of May 2019

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