Name of a institution or organization, such as a university or corporation, that is the affiliation for a contributor such as an author or an editor
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>.
Conversion Note: In a typical case, the id attribute of an Affiliation element will be pointed to from one or more Contributor <contrib> elements, establishing the linkage between them.
Conversion Note: Even if the explicitly tagged numbers or symbols for author linkages are preserved during conversion, the linkage from a contributor to an affiliation should be made using the ID/IDREF mechanism during the conversion. The ID/IDREF should be created even if the mechanism must be inserted.
<!ELEMENT aff (#PCDATA %aff-elements;)* >
Any combination of:
<article-meta> Article Metadata; <contrib> Contributor; <contrib-group> Contributor Group; <person-group> Person Group for a Cited Publication
...
<article-meta>
<article-id pub-id-type="pmid">...</article-id>
<title-group>...
</title-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"/>
</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>
</contrib-group>
<aff id="StLukes">
<sup><italic>a</italic></sup>Department of Health Care
for the Elderly, St Luke’s Hospital, Bradford BD5
0NA</aff>
...
<pub-date pub-type="pub">...
</pub-date>...
</article-meta>...
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