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>.
The linkage from a contributor to an affiliation should be made using the ID/IDREF mechanism. The @id attribute of an <aff> element will be pointed to from one or more <contrib> elements.
<!ELEMENT aff (#PCDATA %aff-elements;)* >
(#PCDATA | addr-line | country | fax | institution | phone | email | ext-link | uri | break | bold | italic | monospace | overline | roman | sc | strike | underline | fn | target | xref | sub | sup)*
Any combination of:
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<contrib-group>
<contrib contrib-type="author">
<name><surname>Weinstein</surname>
<given-names>Melvin P.</given-names></name>
<aff>Departments of Medicine and Pathology, UMDNJ-Robert
Wood Johnson Medical School, New Brunswick, New
Jersey 08901-0019</aff>
<address>
<institution>Departments of Medicine and Pathology,
UMDNJ-Robert Wood Johnson Medical School</institution>
<addr-line>1 Robert Wood Johnson Pl.</addr-line>
<addr-line>New Brunswick, NJ 08901-0019</addr-line>
<country>USA</country>
<phone>(732) 235-7713</phone>
<fax>(732) 235-7951</fax>
<email>weinstei@umdnj.edu</email>
</address>
</contrib>
</contrib-group>
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In a contributor group in article metadata
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<article-meta>
<title-group>
<article-title>Systematic review of day hospital
care for elderly people</article-title>
</title-group>
<contrib-group>
<contrib contrib-type="author">
<name><surname>Forster</surname>
<given-names>Anne Williams</given-names>
</name>
<role>research physiotherapist</role>
<aff>Department of Health Care
for the Elderly, St Luke’s Hospital, Bradford BD5
0NA</aff>
</contrib>
...
</contrib-group>
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</article-meta>
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