<conf-loc>

Conference Location

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

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 Model

<!ELEMENT  conf-loc     (#PCDATA %conf-loc-elements;)*               >

Expanded Content Model

(#PCDATA | addr-line | city | country | fax | institution | institution-wrap | phone | postal-code | state)*

Description

This element may be contained in:

Example 1

In an element-style bibliographic reference (punctuation and spacing removed):
...
<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>
...

Example 2

In a mixed-style bibliographic reference (punctuation and spacing preserved):
...
<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>
...

Example 3

In article metadata:
...
<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>
<counts>
<count count-type="contributors" count="3"/>
<fig-count count="5"/>
<table-count count="3"/>
<equation-count count="10"/>
<ref-count count="26"/>
<page-count count="6"/>
<word-count count="2847"/>
</counts>
</article-meta>
...