<contrib-group> Contributor Group

Container element for one or more contributors and information about those contributors.

Usage/Remarks

Inside the element <book-meta>, the <contrib-group> element groups one or more contributors to a work such as authors, researchers, or photographers. Inside the element <book-part-meta>, the <contrib-group> element groups contributors to the individual book part, such as chapter editors, chapter authors, or special section editors.
Contributor groups may name primary authors, editors, sponsors, translators, illustrators, or any other role. The members of the group are contributors who worked individually, not as a group. The @content-type attribute should be used to name the type of contributor, “authors”, “editors”, “translators”, “directors”, etc.
Naming the Role of Contributors
The @content-type attribute on <contrib-group> was designed to name the role of the contributors in the group and was also designed to accept any text as its value. However, if the @content-type value is to be taken from a controlled vocabulary, such as CRediT, Best Practice is not to name the role using @content-type. Best Practice (when possible) is to tag the CRediT taxonomy of contributor roles by using the <role> element inside the <contrib-group> or inside individual contributors (<contrib>). The major advantages of using the <role> element are the ability to tie the content of the role to the formal vocabulary using the four BITS vocabulary attributes and the ability for a contributor or group to play more than one role in the creation of an article.
Related Elements
The element <contrib-group> is a metadata element. The <person-group> element performs a similar function of grouping individual contributors, such as authors and editors, within a bibliographic reference (<element-citation> or <mixed-citation>).
The <contrib-group> should not be confused with the element <collab>, in which individuals are not named as contributors because the contribution was made by the group as a whole, for example, a report which has a laboratory or department as the official author.
Attributes

Base Attributes

Models and Context
May be contained in
Description
Content Model
<!ELEMENT  contrib-group
             %contrib-group-model;                                   >
Expanded Content Model

(contrib | address | aff | aff-alternatives | author-comment | bio | email | etal | ext-link | fn | on-behalf-of | role | uri | xref | x)+

Tagged Samples
With referenced <aff> after group
...
<book-meta>
 ...
 <contrib-group>
  <contrib contrib-type="author">
   <name><surname>Genton</surname>
    <given-names>Blaise</given-names></name>
   <role>senior scientist</role>
   <xref ref-type="aff">
    <sup><italic>a</italic></sup>
   </xref>
   <xref ref-type="corresp" rid="cor1">&#x2010;</xref>
  </contrib>
  <contrib contrib-type="author">...</contrib>
 </contrib-group>
 <aff><sup><italic>a</italic></sup>Policlinique 
  M&#x00E9;dicale Universitaire, 1005 Lausanne, 
  Switzerland, <sup><italic>b</italic></sup>Swiss 
  Federal Office of Public Health, Bern, Switzerland</aff>
 <author-notes>
  <fn fn-type="con">
   <p>&#x2003; Contributors: VD'A was responsible for data entry,
    management and analysis, interpretation of results, and writing
    the manuscript. PL was responsible for clinical supervision, 
    data collection, and interpretation of results.</p>
  </fn>
  <corresp id="cor1">&#x2010; Correspondence to: B Genton
   <email>Blaise.Genton@hospvd.ch</email></corresp>
 </author-notes>
 ...
</book-meta>
...
With unreferenced <aff> inside group
...
<contrib-group>
 <contrib contrib-type="author">
  <name name-style="western">
   <surname>Nüsslin</surname>
   <given-names>Fridtjof</given-names>
   <prefix>Dr.</prefix>
  </name>
 </contrib>
 <aff>Klinik für Strahlentherapie und Radiologische Onkologie,
  <institution>Technische Universität München</institution>, 
  Munich, Germany (Tel: 49-89-41404517, E-mail:
  <ext-link ext-link-type="email" xlink:href="mailto:nuesslin@lrz.tum.de">
  nuesslin@lrz.tum.de</ext-link>)</aff>
</contrib-group>
...
Group with single author
...  
<contrib-group content-type="conference-editors">
 <contrib contrib-type="editor">
  <name name-style="western">
   <surname>Herrera</surname>
   <given-names>Gerardo</given-names>
  </name>
  <role>Conference Editor</role>
 </contrib>
</contrib-group>
...
Multiple authors, one writing on behalf of a group
...
<contrib-group>
 <contrib contrib-type="author">
  <name><surname>Forster</surname>
   <given-names>Anne Williams</given-names></name>
  <role>research physiotherapist</role>
  <xref ref-type="aff" rid="StLukes"/>
  <xref ref-type="aff" rid="RoyalInf"/>
 </contrib>
 <contrib contrib-type="author">
  <name><surname>Young</surname>
   <given-names>John G.</given-names></name>
  <role>consultant physician</role>
  <xref ref-type="aff" rid="RoyalInf"/>
  <author-comment>
   <p>on behalf of the Day Hospital Group</p>
  </author-comment>
 </contrib>
 <aff id="StLukes">Department of Health Care for the
  Elderly, St Luke&#x2019;s Hospital, Bradford BD5 0NA</aff>
 <aff id="RoyalInf">Academic Section of Geriatric
  Medicine, Royal Infirmary, Glasgow G4 0SF</aff>
</contrib-group>
...
Alternative contributor names
...
<contrib-group>
 <contrib contrib-type="author">  
  <name-alternatives>
   <name name-style="western"><surname>Zhang</surname>
    <given-names>Y. P.</given-names></name>
   <string-name name-style="eastern" xml:lang="zh">张轶泼</string-name>
  </name-alternatives>
  <xref ref-type="aff" rid="a1">1</xref>
  <xref ref-type="author-notes" rid="n1">a)</xref>
 </contrib>
 <contrib contrib-type="author">
  <name-alternatives>
   <name name-style="western"><surname>Isobe</surname>
    <given-names>M.</given-names></name>
   <string-name name-style="eastern" xml:lang="zh">磯部光孝</string-name>
  </name-alternatives>
  <xref ref-type="aff" rid="a2">2</xref>
 </contrib>
 <contrib contrib-type="author">
  <name-alternatives>
   <name name-style="western"><surname>Liu</surname>
    <given-names>Yi</given-names></name>
   <string-name name-style="eastern" xml:lang="zh">刘仪</string-name>
  </name-alternatives>
  <xref ref-type="aff" rid="a1">1</xref>
 </contrib>
</contrib-group>
...
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