<aff>
Affiliation
Name of an institution or organization (for example, university, corporation) with which a contributor is affiliated.
Remarks
All levels of a multi-tier organization are listed within a single <aff> element; for example, a program, a department, and a
university may be part of the same <aff>.
Similarly, both a division and a corporation would be inside one <aff>.
Best Practice: In a typical case, the @id attribute of an <aff> element will be pointed to from one or more <contrib> elements, establishing the linkage between them.
Even if the explicitly tagged numbers or symbols for author linkages are preserved in conversion, the ID/IDREF linking mechanism should be maintained or created during conversion.
Attributes
Content Model
<!ELEMENT aff (#PCDATA %aff-elements;)* >
Expanded Content Model
(#PCDATA | addr-line | city | country | fax | institution | institution-wrap | phone | postal-code | state | email | ext-link | uri | inline-supplementary-material | related-article | related-object | break | bold | fixed-case | italic | monospace | overline | roman | sans-serif | sc | strike | underline | ruby | label | fn | target | xref | sub | sup)*
Description
Any combination of:
- Text, numbers, or special characters
- Address Elements
- Linking Elements
- Related Material Elements
- <break> Line Break
- Emphasis Elements
- <label> Label (of an Equation, Figure, Reference, etc.)
- Internal Linking Elements
- Baseline Change Elements
This element may be contained in:
Example 1
Inside a contributor in the article metadata:
...
<contrib-group>
<contrib contrib-type="author">
<name><surname>Weinstein</surname>
<given-names>Melvin P.</given-names></name>
<aff>Departments of Medicine and Pathology, UMDNJ-Robert
Wood Johnson Medical School, New Brunswick, New
Jersey 08901-0019</aff>
<address>
<institution>Departments of Medicine and Pathology,
UMDNJ-Robert Wood Johnson Medical School</institution>
<addr-line>1 Robert Wood Johnson Pl.</addr-line>
<addr-line>New Brunswick, NJ 08901-0019</addr-line>
<country>USA</country>
<phone>(732) 235-7713</phone>
<fax>(732) 235-7951</fax>
<email>weinstei@umdnj.edu</email>
</address>
</contrib>
</contrib-group>
...
Example 2
In a contributor group, following the contributor(s), in the article
metadata:
...
<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>
...... <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’s Hospital, Bradford BD5 0NA</aff> <aff id="RoyalInf">Academic Section of Geriatric Medicine, Royal Infirmary, Glasgow G4 0SF</aff> </contrib-group> ...
Example 3
Naming the affiliated institution and providing an institution identifier:
...
<article-meta>
...
<contrib-group>
<contrib contrib-type="author">
<name><surname>Gaillard</surname>
<given-names>T. D.</given-names></name>
<xref ref-type="aff" rid="aff1"/>
</contrib>
<contrib contrib-type="author">
<name><surname>Clark</surname>
<given-names>H. S.</given-names></name>
<xref ref-type="aff" rid="aff1"/>
</contrib>
</contrib-group>
<aff id="aff1">
<institution-wrap>
<institution-id institution-id-type="Ringgold">1812</institution-id>
<institution content-type="university">Harvard University</institution>
</institution-wrap>
</aff>
<author-notes>
<fn>
<p>Correspondence to: TD Gaillard <email>tgail@harvard.edu</email></p>
</fn>
</author-notes>
...
</article-meta>
...
Example 4
In a person group in an element-style bibliographic reference (punctuation and spacing removed):
...
<ref>
<element-citation publication-type="journal" publication-format="print">
<person-group>
<name><surname>Pinet</surname>
<given-names>LM</given-names></name>
<aff>Departamento de Servicios de Salud de
Emergencia, Escuela de Posgrado, Universidad
de Maryland, Condado de Baltimore, USA.
<email>lpinetl@umbc.edu</email>
</aff>
</person-group>
<trans-title xml:lang="en">Prehospital emergency
care in Mexico City: the opportunities of the
healthcare system</trans-title>
<source>Salud Publica Mex</source>
<year iso-8601-date="2005-01">2005</year>
<month>Jan-Feb</month>
<volume>47</volume>
<issue>1</issue>
<fpage>64</fpage>
<lpage>71</lpage>
<comment>Spanish</comment>
</element-citation>
</ref>
...
Example 5
An affiliation name in Japanese and English:
... <article-meta> ... <contrib-group> <contrib contrib-type="author"> <name-alternatives> <name name-style="eastern" xml:lang="ja-Jpan"> <surname>園田</surname> <given-names>直子</given-names> </name> <name name-style="western" xml:lang="en"> <surname>Sonoda</surname> <given-names>Naoko</given-names> </name> <name name-style="eastern" xml:lang="ja-Kana"> <surname>ソノダ</surname> <given-names>ナオコ</given-names> </name> </name-alternatives> <xref ref-type="aff" rid="aff2">**</xref> </contrib> </contrib-group> <aff-alternatives id="aff2"> <aff> <institution xml:lang="ja-Jpan">国立民族学博物館博物館民族学研究部</institution> </aff> <aff> <institution xml:lang="en">Department of Museum Anthropology, National Museum of Ethnology</institution> </aff> </aff-alternatives> ... </article-meta> ...