<edition>
Edition Statement, Cited
The full edition statement for a cited or referenced publication.
Remarks
The content of this element may be a simple edition number (such as “<edition>3</edition>” or “<edition>A</edition>”). More complex edition statements may contain a textual statement (“Third print edition revised”), the edition number as an ordinal (“3rd” or “3rd edition”), or superscripted ordinals (“4<sup>th</sup>”
“4<sup>th</sup> digital edition”). Whether or not the content is more than a simple number, the @designator attribute of this element can be used to hold the simple numerical or alphabetic
edition number (<edition designator="3">3rd Edition reprinted</edition>).
Related Essay: For a discussion on the use of <edition>, see Ordinal Numbers.
This element is used in bibliographic references (<element-citation> and <mixed-citation>).
Attributes
Content Model
<!ELEMENT edition (#PCDATA %edition-elements;)* >
Expanded Content Model
(#PCDATA | sub | sup)*
Description
Any combination of:
- Text, numbers, or special characters
- Baseline Change Elements
This element may be contained in:
Example 1
In an element-style bibliographic citation (punctuation and spacing removed):
...
<ref id="B6">
<element-citation>
<collab>National Committee for Clinical Laboratory
Standards</collab>
<source>Performance standards for antimicrobial disk
susceptibility tests</source>
<comment>Approved standard</comment>
<edition>7</edition>
<fpage>M2</fpage>
<lpage>A7</lpage>
<publisher-loc>Wayne, Pa</publisher-loc>
<publisher-name>National Committee for Clinical Laboratory
Standards</publisher-name>
<year iso-8601-date="2000">2000</year>
</element-citation>
</ref>
...
Example 2
Showing an edition statement with superscripts and a @designator attribute in a mixed-citation:
...
<ref id="B6">
<mixed-citation>
<collab>National Committee for Clinical Laboratory
Standards</collab>.
<source>Performance standards for antimicrobial disk
susceptibility tests</source>.
<comment>Approved standard</comment>.
<edition designator="7">7<sup>th</sup> ed.</edition>
p. <fpage>M2</fpage>–<lpage>A7</lpage>.
<publisher-loc>Wayne, Pa</publisher-loc>:
<publisher-name>National Committee for Clinical
Laboratory Standards</publisher-name>;
<year iso-8601-date="2000">2000</year>.
</mixed-citation>
</ref>
...
Example 3
In a mixed-style bibliographic citation (punctuation and spacing preserved):
...
<ref id="B6">
<mixed-citation>
<collab>National Committee for Clinical Laboratory
Standards</collab>.
<source>Performance standards for antimicrobial disk
susceptibility tests</source>.
<comment>Approved standard</comment>.
<edition>7</edition><sup>th</sup> ed.
p. <fpage>M2</fpage>–
<lpage>A7</lpage>.
<publisher-loc>Wayne, Pa</publisher-loc>:
<publisher-name>National Committee for Clinical
Laboratory Standards</publisher-name>;
<year iso-8601-date="2000">2000</year>.
</mixed-citation>
</ref>
...