<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:

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>&ndash;<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>&ndash;
<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>
...