Many tag sets have different models for different types of citations: journals, books, patents, standards, etc. This Tag Suite has only two models, both of which are independent of citation type. The semantic information describing the type of citation is captured using the @publication-type attribute. This Suite does not prescribe a list of values, so this attribute can be used to record that a cited work is a journal article, a book, a personal communication, a newspaper, etc.:
<element-citation publication-type="journal"> <mixed-citation publication-type="book"> <element-citation publication-type="report"> <mixed-citation publication-type="webpage"> <element-citation publication-type="commun" <mixed-citation publication-type="newspaper"> <element-citation publication-type="conf-paper"> <mixed-citation publication-type="poster-session"> <element-citation publication-type="discussion"> <mixed-citation publication-type="wiki"> <element-citation publication-type="blog"> <mixed-citation publication-type="database""> <element-citation publication-type="thesis"> <mixed-citation publication-type="patent"> <mixed-citation publication-type="std">
The format or media type of the cited material can also be preserved using the @publication-format attribute. This allows, for example, an online reference to a publication to be distinguished from a citation to the same source material in print. This is not a controlled set of values or formal types such as mime types; this attribute takes a text value that can be used to preserve almost anything a publisher has named as a format or media.
Here are the same sample publication types that were just given, this time with the publication format added as well:
<element-citation publication-type="journal" publication-format="print"> <mixed-citation publication-type="journal" publication-format="web"> <element-citation publication-type="book" publication-format="print"> <mixed-citation publication-type="book" publication-format="web"> <mixed-citation publication-type="book" publication-format="online"> <element-citation publication-type="book" publication-format="dvd"> <mixed-citation publication-type="book" publication-format="videocassette"> <element-citation publication-type="book" publication-format="cd-rom"> <mixed-citation publication-type="book" publication-format="ebook"> <element-citation publication-type="book" publication-format="audiocassette"> <mixed-citation publication-type="book" publication-format="slide" publisher-type="gov"> <element-citation publication-type="book" publication-format="dvd"> <mixed-citation publication-type="webpage"> <element-citation publication-type="wiki" publication-format="web"> <mixed-citation publication-type="blog" publication-format="web"> <element-citation publication-type="conf-paper"> <mixed-citation publication-type="poster-session"> <element-citation publication-type="commun" publication-format="email"> <mixed-citation publication-type="discussion" publication-format="list"> <mixed-citation publication-type="newspaper" publication-format="print"> <element-citation publication-type="database" publication-format="cd-rom"> <mixed-citation publication-type="database" publication-format="dvd"> <element-citation publication-type="database" publication-format="web"> <element-citation publication-type="report" publisher-type="gov" publication-format="print"> <element-citation publication-type="thesis" publication-format="print"> <mixed-citation publication-type="dissertation" publication-format="print"> <element-citation publication-type="patent" publication-format="print"> <mixed-citation publication-type="std" publication-format="pdf"> <mixed-citation publication-format="spreadsheet">
The type of the publisher (government, non-profit, individual) may be named using the @publisher-type attribute. This attribute is not as frequently used as the other two; the most common values being “gov” for a government document such as a report and “stds-body” for standard published by a national or international standards organization.