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<conf-loc> Conference Location

Physical location(s) of a conference (for example, city, country, campus, organization location).

Usage/Remarks

Best Practice

If the conference is in the United States, the state should also be provided. Do not include a specific venue or address (for example, the conference hotel), unless there is no other location information.
In Citations
The element <conf-loc> may be used in bibliographic references (<element-citation> and <mixed-citation>).
Related Elements
The container element <conference> holds all of the elements that may be used to describe a conference, when an article was originally presented at a conference. Those elements include: <conf-date>, <conf-name>, <conf-acronym>, <conf-num>, <conf-loc>, <conf-sponsor>, and <conf-theme>.
Attributes
content-type
specific-use

Multi-lang Attributes

lang-focus
lang-focus-custom
lang-group
lang-source
lang-source-custom
lang-translate
lang-variant
lang-variant-custom

Base Attributes

id
xml:base
xml:lang
Models and Context
May be contained in
<conference>, <element-citation>, <mixed-citation>, <nlm-citation>, <product>, <related-article>, <related-object>
Description
Any combination of:
Content Model
<!ELEMENT  conf-loc     (#PCDATA %conf-loc-elements;)*               >
Expanded Content Model
(#PCDATA | addr-line | city | country | fax | institution | institution-wrap
| phone | postal-code | state)*
Tagged Samples
In citations
Mixed citation
...
<ref>
 <mixed-citation publication-type="paper">
  <string-name><surname>Thabet</surname>
  <given-names>A</given-names></string-name>.
  <article-title>Clinical value of two serial pulmonary
  embolism-protocol CT studies performed within ten 
  days</article-title>. <conf-name>Annual Scientific 
  Meeting and Postgraduate Course of the American 
  Society of Emergency Radiology</conf-name>;
  <conf-date iso-8601-date="2006-09-27">2006 Sep
  27-30</conf-date>; <conf-loc>Washington, DC</conf-loc>.
 </mixed-citation>
</ref>
...
Element citation
...
<ref>
 <element-citation publication-type="paper">
  <name><surname>Thabet</surname>
   <given-names>A</given-names></name>
  <article-title>Clinical value of two serial pulmonary
   embolism-protocol CT studies performed within ten
   days</article-title>
  <conf-name>Annual Scientific Meeting and Postgraduate
   Course of the American Society of Emergency Radiology</conf-name>
  <conf-date iso-8601-date="2006-09-27">2006 Sep 27-30</conf-date>
  <conf-loc>Washington, DC</conf-loc>
 </element-citation>
</ref>
...
In <conference> 
...
<article-meta>
 ...
 <abstract>...</abstract>
 <conference>
  <conf-date iso-8601-date="1999">1999</conf-date>
  <conf-name>The 27th annual ACM SI/GUCCS
   conference</conf-name>
  <conf-acronym>SIGUCCS</conf-acronym>
  <conf-num>27</conf-num>
  <conf-loc>Denver, Colorado, United States</conf-loc>
  <conf-sponsor>ACM, Assoc. for Computing Machinery</conf-sponsor>
  <conf-theme>User services conference for university 
   and college computing service organizations</conf-theme>
 </conference>
</article-meta>
...