Wrapper element for one or more authors, editors, translators, etc., that are named in a cited reference
This element may also include any punctuation and spacing that is between the names.
This element may be used in bibliographic references (<citation> and <nlm-citation>). For extensive examples of formatted <nlm-citation>s including use of <person-group>s in <nlm-citation>s, see: Sample PubMed Central Citations. To see tagged versions of these examples, see: Sample PubMed Central Citations - XML Tagged.
This element is very similar to the <contrib-group> element in the article metadata. It would have been nice to design the Tag Set in such a way that there was just one element that could be used inside both the metadata and inside a citation. But using the same name for both elements was not possible, since the content of the two elements is different, and this is a DTD, not a schema. (Note: Some schema languages could accommodate such context-related model differences.)
<!ELEMENT person-group %person-group-model; >
Any combination of:
<citation> Citation; <nlm-citation> NLM Citation Model; <product> Product Information; <related-article> Related Article Information
In a bibliographic reference (punctuation and spacing removed):
...
<ref-list>
...
<ref>
<citation citation-type="gov">
<person-group person-group-type="author">
<name><surname>Norman</surname>
<given-names>John C</given-names></name>
<aff>Texas Heart Institute, Houston, TX</aff>
</person-group>
<gov>Report No.: NIH-N01-HV-5-3006-4-VI. Contract No.
N01-HV-5-3006</gov>
<source>ALVAD: 1980. A comprehensive final report to NHLI</source>
<volume>1</volume>
<publisher-loc>Bethesda (MD)</publisher-loc>
<publisher-name>National Institutes of Health, National Heart and Lung
Institute, Devices and Services Branch</publisher-name>
<month>01</month>
<year>1980</year>
<page-count count="340"/>
<comment>Available from: NTIS, Springfield, VA;
PB80-148810</comment>
</citation>
</ref>
</ref-list>...
In a bibliographic reference (punctuation and spacing preserved):
...
<ref-list>
...
<ref>
<citation citation-type="gov">
<person-group person-group-type="author">
<name><surname>Norman</surname>
<given-names>John C</given-names></name>
<aff>Texas Heart Institute, Houston, TX</aff>
</person-group>.
<gov>Report No.: NIH-N01-HV-5-3006-4-VI. Contract No.
N01-HV-5-3006</gov>.
<source>ALVAD: 1980. A comprehensive final report to NHLI</source>.
Vol. <volume>1</volume>.
<publisher-loc>Bethesda (MD)</publisher-loc>:
<publisher-name>National Institutes of Health, National Heart and Lung
Institute, Devices and Services Branch</publisher-name>;
<month>01</month> <year>1980</year>.
<page-count count="340"/> p.
<comment>Available from: NTIS, Springfield, VA;
PB80-148810</comment>.
</citation>
</ref>
</ref-list>...
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