person-group-type

Type of People in the Person Group

Definition

Identifies the “role” of the persons being named in the <person-group> element, for example, a group of authors, a group of editors, members of the G&S chorus, etc.

Remarks

Although the DTD cannot enforce any typing, suggested types include:

all-authors

Used to identify a complete list of authors when a subset of the author group is used elsewhere in the citation. This may occur, for example, when a citation identifies both a book and a chapter within the book.

assignee

Persons to whom a patent is awarded.

author

Content creators.

complier

Persons who put together a composite work from multiple sources.

editor

Content editors.

guest-editor

Content editors that have been invited to edit all or part of a work.

inventor

Idea, software, or machine creators.

trans-editor

Editors of a translated version of a work.

translator

Persons who translated the cited work from one language into another.

Attribute Values

In Element

<person-group> Person Group for a Cited Publication
Value Meaning
Data characters Text, numbers, or special characters.
Restriction: This attribute may be specified if the element is used.