Within bibliographic references and contributor groupings, this element designates unnamed individuals (typically indicated in print with the text “et al.”).
Most journals model this as an EMPTY element, typically used to generate the text “et al.” from a stylesheet. However, a few journal tag sets (Blackwell’s, for example) expect content for this element, with such text as “Associates, coworkers, and colleagues”. Therefore (as of Version 2.3), this is an EMPTY element in the more prescriptive Publishing and Authoring Tag Sets and an element with textual contentment in the Archiving Tag Set.
This element may only be used in bibliographic references (in <citation> and <nlm-citation> via <person-group>). For extensive examples of formatted <nlm-citation>s including use of <etal>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 etal %etal-model; >
Text, numbers, or special characters, zero or more
In a NLM-style bibliographic citation:
... <back> <ref-list> ... <ref id="B27"> <nlm-citation> <person-group person-group-type="author"> <name><surname>Hughes</surname> <given-names>TR</given-names></name> <name><surname>Marton</surname> <given-names>MJ</given-names></name> <name><surname>Jones</surname> <given-names>AC</given-names></name> <etal/> </person-group> <article-title>Functional discovery via a compendium of expression profiles</article-title> <source>Cell</source> <year>2000</year> <volume>102</volume> <fpage>109</fpage> <lpage>126</lpage> <annotation> <p>This report is the most extensive DNA expression profile of yeast genes. It examines the expression pattern of the whole yeast genome in 300 mutant strains. It infers the function of many unknown genes comparing profiles among the different mutants.</p> </annotation> </nlm-citation> </ref> </ref-list> </back>...
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