<aff>

Affiliation

Name of an institution or organization (for example, university, corporation) with which a contributor is affiliated.

Remarks

All levels of a multi-tier organization are listed within a single <aff> element; for example, a program, a department, and a university may be part of the same <aff>. Similarly, both a division and a corporation would be inside one <aff>.
The linkage from a contributor to an affiliation should be made using the ID/IDREF mechanism. The @id attribute of an <aff> element will be pointed to from one or more <contrib> elements.

Related Elements

Within an affiliation element (<aff>), the name of an institution may just be given as text, or the institution may be tagged explicitly (as an <institution>) and an institutional identifier recorded (<institution-id>). The element <institution-wrap> collects together both the name of the institution and its identifier.
A single institution may have multiple identifiers, either because different assigning agencies have defined an identifier or because the entity belongs to more than one larger organizational unit, for example, a laboratory may be part of multiple institutions.

Attributes

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

Content Model

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

Expanded Content Model

(#PCDATA | addr-line | city | country | fax | institution | institution-wrap | phone | postal-code | state | email | ext-link | uri | break | bold | fixed-case | italic | monospace | overline | roman | sans-serif | sc | strike | underline | ruby | fn | target | xref | sub | sup)*

Description

Any combination of:

This element may be contained in:

<aff-alternatives>, <collab>, <contrib>, <person-group>

Example 1

Inside a contributor in the article metadata:
...
<contrib-group>
<contrib contrib-type="author">
<name><surname>Weinstein</surname>
<given-names>Melvin P.</given-names></name>
<aff>Departments of Medicine and Pathology, UMDNJ-Robert
Wood Johnson Medical School, New Brunswick, New
Jersey 08901-0019</aff>
<address>
<institution>Departments of Medicine and Pathology,
UMDNJ-Robert Wood Johnson Medical School</institution>
<addr-line>1 Robert Wood Johnson Pl.</addr-line>
<addr-line>New Brunswick, NJ 08901-0019</addr-line>
<country>USA</country>
<phone>(732) 235-7713</phone>
<fax>(732) 235-7951</fax>
<email>weinstei@umdnj.edu</email>
</address>
</contrib>
</contrib-group>
...

...
<article-meta>
<title-group>
<article-title>Systematic review of day hospital
care for elderly people</article-title>
</title-group>
<contrib-group>
<contrib contrib-type="author">
<name><surname>Forster</surname>
<given-names>Anne Williams</given-names></name>
<role>research physiotherapist</role>
<aff>Department of Health Care for the Elderly, 
St Luke&#x2019;s Hospital, Bradford BD5 0NA</aff>
</contrib>
<contrib contrib-type="author">
<name><surname>Young</surname>
<given-names>John</given-names></name>
<role>consultant physician</role>
<aff>Department of Health Care for the Elderly, 
St Luke&#x2019;s Hospital, Bradford BD5 0NA</aff>
</contrib>
<contrib contrib-type="author">
<name><surname>Langhorne</surname>
<given-names>Peter</given-names></name>
<role>senior lecturer</role>
<aff>Academic Section of Geriatric Medicine, Royal 
Infirmary, Glasgow G4 0SF</aff>
</contrib>
</contrib-group>
...
</article-meta>
...

Example 2

Naming the affiliated institution and providing an institution identifier:
...
<article-meta>
...  
<contrib-group>
<contrib contrib-type="author">
<name><surname>Gaillard</surname>
<given-names>T. D.</given-names></name>
<aff>
<institution-wrap>
<institution-id institution-id-type="Ringgold">1812</institution-id>
<institution content-type="university">Harvard University</institution>
</institution-wrap>
</aff>
<author-comment>
<p>Correspondence to: TD Gaillard <email>tgail@harvard.edu</email></p>
</author-comment>
</contrib>
<contrib contrib-type="author">
<name><surname>Clark</surname>
<given-names>H. S.</given-names></name>
<aff>
<institution-wrap>
<institution-id institution-id-type="Ringgold">1812</institution-id>
<institution content-type="university">Harvard University</institution>
</institution-wrap>
</aff>
</contrib>
</contrib-group>
...
</article-meta>
...

Example 3

In a person group in an element-style bibliographic reference (punctuation and spacing removed):
...
<ref>
<element-citation publication-type="journal" publication-format="print">
<person-group>
<name><surname>Pinet</surname>
<given-names>LM</given-names></name>
<aff>Departamento de Servicios de Salud de
Emergencia, Escuela de Posgrado, Universidad
de Maryland, Condado de Baltimore, USA.
<email>lpinetl@umbc.edu</email></aff>
</person-group>
<trans-title xml:lang="en">Prehospital emergency
care in Mexico City: the opportunities of the
healthcare system</trans-title>
<source>Salud Publica Mex</source>
<year iso-8601-date="2005-01">2005</year>
<month>Jan-Feb</month>
<volume>47</volume>
<issue>1</issue>
<fpage>64</fpage>
<lpage>71</lpage>
<comment>Spanish</comment>
</element-citation>
</ref>
...

Example 4

An affiliation name in Japanese and English:
...
<article-meta>
...
<contrib-group>
<contrib contrib-type="author">
<name-alternatives>
<name name-style="eastern" xml:lang="ja-Jpan">
<surname>園田</surname>
<given-names>直子</given-names></name>
<name name-style="western" xml:lang="en">
<surname>Sonoda</surname>
<given-names>Naoko</given-names></name>
<name name-style="eastern" xml:lang="ja-Kana">
<surname>ソノダ</surname>
<given-names>ナオコ</given-names></name>
</name-alternatives> 
<aff-alternatives id="aff2">
<aff>
<institution xml:lang="ja-Jpan">国立民族学博物館博物館民族学研究部</institution>
</aff>
<aff>
<institution xml:lang="en">Department of Museum Anthropology, 
National Museum of Ethnology</institution>
</aff>
</aff-alternatives> 
</contrib>
</contrib-group>
...
</article-meta>
...

Article Authoring Tag Library NISO JATS Version 1.2 (ANSI/NISO Z39.96-2019)

Version of May 2019

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