<issue>
Issue Number
Issue number of a journal, or in rare instances, a book.
Remarks
In Citations: The <issue> element is also used in bibliographic references (<element-citation> and <mixed-citation>) where it indicates the issue in which the cited material was published.
It an article was published in a joint issue “Iss. 2-3”, both issue numbers should be placed into a single <issue> element: <issue>1-2</issue>.
Attributes
Content Model
<!ELEMENT issue (#PCDATA %issue-elements;)* >
Expanded Content Model
(#PCDATA)*
Description
Text, numbers, or special characters, zero or more
This element may be contained in:
Example 1
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>
...Example 2
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>
...