A group of authors (contributors) credited under one name, either as a collaboration in the strictest sense, or when an organization, institution, or corporation is the author
Not to be confused with the element <contrib-group> which is just a wrapper element that holds information such as the names and affiliations of a group of individual contributors.
This element may be used within bibliographic references (<citation> and <nlm-citation>). For extensive examples of formatted <nlm-citation>s including use of <collab>s in <nlm-citation>s, see: Sample PubMed Central Citations. To see tagged versions of these examples, see: Sample PubMed Central Citations - XML Tagged.
<!ELEMENT collab (#PCDATA %collab-elements;)* >
Any combination of:
<citation> Citation; <contrib> Contributor; <nlm-citation> NLM Citation Model; <person-group> Person Group for a Cited Publication; <product> Product Information; <related-article> Related Article Information
In a bibliographic reference (punctuation and spacing removed):
<article>
<front>
...
</front>
<body>...
<p>Geriatric day hospitals developed rapidly in the United Kingdom in the
1960s as an important component of care provision. ...
Although there is considerable descriptive literature on day hospital
care,<xref ref-type="bibr" rid="B1">1</xref> concern has been expressed
that evidence for effectiveness is equivocal and that day hospital care
is expensive.<xref ref-type="bibr" rid="B2">2</xref> ...</p>...
</body>
<back>...
<ref-list>
<ref id="B1"><label>1</label>
<citation citation-type="book">
<collab>Research Unit of the Royal
College of Physicians and British
Geriatric Society</collab>
<source>Geriatric day hospitals: their role
and guidelines for good
practice</source>
<publisher-loc>London</publisher-loc>
<publisher-name>RCP</publisher-name>
<year>1994</year>
</citation>
</ref>
<ref id="B2">...</ref>
...
</ref-list>...
</back>
</article>
In a bibliographic reference (punctuation and spacing preserved):
<article>
<front>
...
</front>
<body>...
<p>Geriatric day hospitals developed rapidly in the United Kingdom in the
1960s as an important component of care provision. ...
Although there is considerable descriptive literature on day hospital
care,<xref ref-type="bibr" rid="B1">1</xref> concern has been expressed
that evidence for effectiveness is equivocal and that day hospital care
is expensive.<xref ref-type="bibr" rid="B2">2</xref> ...</p>...
</body>
<back>...
<ref-list>
<ref id="B1"><label>1</label>
<citation citation-type="book">
<collab>Research Unit of the Royal
College of Physicians and British
Geriatric Society</collab>.
<source>Geriatric day hospitals: their role
and guidelines for good
practice</source>.
<publisher-loc>London</publisher-loc>:
<publisher-name>RCP</publisher-name>;
<year>1994</year>.
</citation>
</ref>
<ref id="B2">...</ref>
...
</ref-list>...
</back>
</article>
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