<element-citation>

Element Citation

Bibliographic description of a work. Includes bibliographic reference elements only. Does not include untagged text, spacing, or punctuation.

Remarks

This element is composed of bibliographic descriptive elements (such as <article-title> and <fpage>) in any order, repeated as needed, with no untagged text and all the punctuation and spacing between elements removed.
This element is intended for capturing a publisher’s specific element order; therefore, it does not enforce a particular element order on its own.
Related Essay: For a discussion on the use of <element-citation>, see Tagging Bibliographic References.
Best Practice: Although this Tag Set does not enforce it, best practice is to tag as many of the following elements as possible within a citation (<element-citation> or <mixed-citation>) to a journal article or a book, so that PubMed Central, Crossref, or other matching service can make the journal citation into a live link:
source
The title of the journal in which the cited article was published. (For journal titles, publishers and archives typically establish authority lists; for example, in PubMed Central processing, the journal title source is usually the NLM title abbreviation of the journal name <source>Physiol Rev</source>.) For book citations, this is the title of the book: <source>Moby Dick</source>.
article-title
Title of the article (Use the <source> element for titles of books, reports, conference proceedings, etc.)
volume
Number of the applicable volume of the journal
issue
Issue number of the applicable issue
fpage
Page number on which the article starts
surname
Surname (familial name) of an author or editor (This element is used inside a <name> element or <string-name> element which is repeated when multiple authors must be listed.)
year
The year of publication
month
The month of publication (if present)
day
The day of month of publication (if present)
Other elements inside a citation may also be tagged if desired.
Linking Best Practice: In order to make citations into live links, as much of the author and date information as is available should be preserved, even if it not possible to tag all the elements just named. The most important date tag is <year>, and it should always be tagged if possible, for example, <year>2008</year>. The <day> and <month> tags are used more rarely; they are provided because some of the citation matching services can use the month and day information if it is available.
Information Typing Best Practice: The @publication-type attribute should normally be used to distinguish between journal articles, books, reviews, personal communications, and so on.
Historical Note: This element is one of the elements that replaces the <citation> element of previous versions of this Tag Set.

Related Elements

This <element-citation> element contains the bibliographic description of a work; the pointer to that description uses the <xref> element. These two elements are sometimes confused because in common language both may be called “citations”.
There are three kinds of citations in this Tag Set:
  • The element <element-citation>, which has element-only content, no interior punctuation or spacing, and allows the components of the citation to be in any order.
  • The element <mixed-citation>, which has textual content, with all interior punctuation and spacing preserved, and allows the components of the citation to be in any order.
  • Deprecated: The element <nlm-citation>, which has element-only content, no interior punctuation or spacing, and requires the components of the citation to be in a specific order. This element was used in previous versions of this Tag Set and is now deprecated.

Attributes

id Document Internal Identifier
publication-format Format of Publication
publication-type Type of Referenced Publication
publisher-type Type of Publisher
specific-use Specific Use
use-type use-type
xlink:actuate Actuating the Link
xlink:href Href (Linking Mechanism)
xlink:role Role of the Link
xlink:show Showing the Link
xlink:title Title of the Link
xlink:type Type of Link
xml:base Base
xml:lang Language
xmlns:xlink XLink Namespace Declaration

Content Model

<!ELEMENT  element-citation
                        (%citation-elements;)+                       >

Expanded Content Model

(bold | fixed-case | italic | monospace | overline | roman | sans-serif | sc | strike | underline | ruby | alternatives | inline-graphic | inline-media | chem-struct | inline-formula | abbrev | index-term | index-term-range-end | named-content | styled-content | annotation | article-title | chapter-title | collab | collab-alternatives | comment | conf-acronym | conf-date | conf-loc | conf-name | conf-sponsor | data-title | date | date-in-citation | day | edition | email | elocation-id | etal | ext-link | fpage | gov | institution | institution-wrap | isbn | issn | issn-l | issue | issue-id | issue-part | issue-title | lpage | month | name | name-alternatives | object-id | page-range | part-title | patent | person-group | pub-id | publisher-loc | publisher-name | role | season | series | size | source | std | string-name | supplement | trans-source | trans-title | uri | version | volume | volume-id | volume-series | year | sub | sup)+

Description

One or more of any of:

This element may be contained in:

<citation-alternatives>, <license-p>, <p>, <ref>, <td>, <th>, <title>

Example 1

Typical bibliographic citation to a journal article:
...
<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

Typical bibliographic citation to a book:
...
<ref id="B14">
<element-citation publication-type="book" publication-format="print">
<person-group person-group-type="author">
<name><surname>Hart</surname>
<given-names>JT</given-names></name>
</person-group>
<source>A new kind of doctor: the general practitioner&rsquo;s 
part in the health of the community</source>
<date iso-8601-date="1988" date-type="published">
<year>1988</year></date>
<publisher-loc>London</publisher-loc>
<publisher-name>Merlin Press</publisher-name>
</element-citation>
</ref>
...

Example 3

Translated bibliographic citation:
...
<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 4

Bibliographic citation for a book, showing <date-in-citation> holding the copyright year:
...
<ref>
<element-citation publication-type="book" publication-format="print">
<name><surname>Al-Ibrahim</surname>
<given-names>MS</given-names></name>
<name><surname>Gross</surname>
<given-names>JY</given-names></name>
<chapter-title>Tobacco use</chapter-title>
<person-group person-group-type="editor">
<name><surname>Walker</surname>
<given-names>HK</given-names></name>
<name><surname>Hall</surname>
<given-names>WD</given-names></name>
<name><surname>Hurst</surname>
<given-names>JW</given-names></name>
</person-group>
<source>Clinical methods: the history, physical,
and laboratory examinations</source>
<publisher-loc>Stoneham (MA)</publisher-loc>
<publisher-name>Butterworth Publishers</publisher-name>
<date-in-citation content-type="copyright-year"
iso-8601-date="1990">1990</date-in-citation>
<fpage>214</fpage>
<lpage>216</lpage>
</element-citation>
</ref>
...

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

Version of May 2019

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