Container element for one or more contributors in a bibliographic reference.
The container can be used to group all the contributors of a particular type (for example, authors, editors, directors, translators) that are named in a reference.
Related Essay: For a discussion on the use of <person-group>, see Personal Names in Citations.
Usage: This element may be used in bibliographic references (<element-citation> and <mixed-citation>).
This element may also include any punctuation and spacing that is between the names, even when this element is used within an <element-citation>. Therefore, within the context of an element-only <element-citation>, care should be taken not to accidentally allow punctuation and spaces, since an XML parser will not view this as an error.
<!ELEMENT person-group %person-group-model; >
(#PCDATA | anonymous | collab | collab-alternatives | name | name-alternatives | string-name | aff | aff-alternatives | etal | role | x)*
Any combination of:
<element-citation>, <mixed-citation>, <product>, <related-article>, <related-object>
In an element-style bibliographic reference (punctuation and spacing removed):
...
<ref-list>
<title>References</title>
<ref id="bid.41">
<label>1</label>
<element-citation>
<person-group>
<name><surname>Olson</surname><given-names>M</given-names></name>
<name><surname>Hood</surname><given-names>L</given-names></name>
<name><surname>Cantor</surname><given-names>C</given-names></name>
<name><surname>Botstein</surname><given-names>D</given-names></name>
</person-group>
<article-title>A common language for physical mapping of the
human genome</article-title>
<source>Science</source>
<year iso-8601-date="1989">1989</year>
<volume>245</volume>
<issue>4925</issue>
<fpage>1434</fpage>
<lpage>1435</lpage>
<pub-id pub-id-type="pmid">2781285</pub-id>
</element-citation>
</ref>
...
</ref-list>
...
In a mixed-style bibliographic reference (punctuation and spacing preserved):
...
<ref-list>
<title>References</title>
<ref id="pbiob001a">
<label>1</label>
<mixed-citation publication-type="journal">
<person-group person-group-type="author">
<anonymous/>
</person-group>.
<article-title>A clinical evaluation of the International
Lymphoma Study Group classification of non-Hodgkin’s
lymphoma. The Non-Hodgkin’s Lymphoma Classification
Project</article-title>. <source>Blood</source>
<year iso-8601-date="1997">1997</year>;
<volume>89</volume>:
<fpage>3909</fpage>–<lpage>3918</lpage>.
<pub-id pub-id-type="pmid">9166827</pub-id>.
</mixed-citation>
</ref>
...
</ref-list>
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