<isbn>
ISBN
International Standard Book Number, the international code for identifying a
particular product form or edition of a publication, typically a monographic
publication.
Remarks
ISBNs can be assigned to books, reports, standards documents, conference proceedings,
and dissertations.
Within an ISBN, spacing, hyphens, and punctuation should be preserved.
If there is more than one ISBN, the @content-type attribute may be used to differentiate between ISBNs or explain the
reason for a particular ISBN.
Within Metadata: The <isbn> element can be
used to record all such numbers inside metadata for books, book parts and collections.
Within Citations and Other Referencing Elements: This element
can also be used inside bibliographic citations to books (<element-citation> and <mixed-citation>) as well as within other referencing elements such as <related-object>. Within a mixed-style citation, the text
“ISBN:”, if present, should be kept as text within the citation but not
placed inside the <isbn> element. Within an
element-style citation, the text “ISBN:”, if present, should be removed
from the citation and also not placed inside the <isbn> element.
Attributes
Content Model
<!ELEMENT isbn (#PCDATA %isbn-elements;)* >
Expanded Content Model
(#PCDATA | x)*
Description
Any combination of:
- Text, numbers, or special characters
- <x> X - Generated Text and Punctuation
This element may be contained in:
Example 1
Inside metadata:
...
<book-part-meta>...
<isbn content-type="conf-proc">978-0-7354-1164-7</isbn>
<fpage seq="1">113</fpage>
<lpage>124</lpage>
</book-part-meta>
...
...
<book-meta>...
<book-title-group>
<book-title>Wildflowers of the Washington Area</book-title>
</book-title-group>
<contrib-group>
<contrib contrib-type="author">
<name><surname>Lapeyre</surname>
<given-names>Deborah A.</given-names></name>
</contrib>
<contrib contrib-type="author">
<name><surname>Usdin</surname>
<given-names>B. Tommie</given-names></name>
</contrib>
</contrib-group>
<pub-date iso-8601-date="2002"><year>2002</year></pub-date>
<isbn>0-23-8675-309</isbn>
<publisher>
<publisher-name>Lippman, Ltd.</publisher-name>
<publisher-loc>Bethesda, MD</publisher-loc>
</publisher>
...</book-meta>
... Example 2
As part of the description of a product:
...
<product>
<source>Image-Guided Radiation Therapy in Lymphoma Management.
The Increasing Role of Functional Imaging</source>.
<name name-style="western"><surname>Macklis</surname>
<given-names>R. M.</given-names></name>
<name name-style="western"><surname>Conti</surname>
<given-names>P. S.</given-names></name>
<publisher-name>Informa Healthcare</publisher-name>,
Essex, United Kingdom, 2010, Price: <price>$324.00</price>.
ISBN: <isbn>9781420058741</isbn>, 80 p. (hardcover)
</product>
...