Academic titles or professional certifications, such as “MD” or “PhD”, that may follow a person’s name
This element is only used inside the <contrib> element, relates only to people, and typically follows the name of a person. This element is not related to the similarly named MathML <degree> element, which is a mathematical term for angles and relationships and does not relate to people.
As part of information about a contributor, the <suffix> element should be used for parts of people’s names (e.g., “Jr.”), not for degrees. The academic degrees are part of the information that is known about a contributor, not part of the name of the contributor, and should take the <degrees> element. Degree and certification information may be placed directly following the person’s name within the contributor information:
<contributor ...> <name> <surname>Smyth-Jones</surname> <given-names>George</given-names> <suffix>Sr.</suffix> </name> <degrees>PhD</degrees> </contributor>
Or the <degrees> may be included later within the contributor element, interspersed with other types of contributor information such as <address>, <aff>, <bio>, and <email>.
When a bibliographic citation includes information about the degrees held by a cited author, those degrees should be treated as text and not tagged.
<!ELEMENT degrees (#PCDATA %degrees-elements;)* >
Any combination of:
...
<contrib contrib-type="author" rid="IIDR">
<name><surname>Taylor</surname>
<given-names>James C.</given-names>
</name>
<degrees>PhD</degrees>
<aff id="IIDR">
<institution>Institute of Infectious Disease Research
</institution><break/>
<addr-line>Oberlin, MD 20869</addr-line>
</aff>
<address>
<institution>Kalakukko Corporation</institution>
<addr-line>17 West Jefferson St.</addr-line>
<addr-line>Suite 207</addr-line>
<addr-line>New South Finland, MD 20856</addr-line>
<country>USA</country><phone>(301) 754-5766</phone>
<fax>(301) 754-5765</fax>
<email>jct@kalakukko.com</email>
<uri>http://www.kalakukko.com</uri>
</address>
</contrib>
...
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