All given names of a person, such as the first name, middle names, maiden name if used as part of the married name, etc.; for example, in the name “John Q. Delancey Public”, the <given-names> would be “John Q. Delancey” and the <surname> would be “Public”.
<!ELEMENT given-names (#PCDATA %given-names-elements;)* >
Any combination of:
<name> Name of Person; <speaker> Speaker; <string-name> Name of Person (Unstructured)
In a bibliographic reference (punctuation and spacing removed):
...<ref-list>
<title>References</title>
<ref id="bid.41">
<label>1</label>
<citation>
<person-group>
<name><surname>Olson</surname><given-names>M</given-names></name>
...
</person-group>
<article-title>A common language for physical mapping
of the human genome</article-title>
<source>Science</source>
<year>1989</year>
<volume>245</volume>
<issue>4925</issue>
<fpage>1434</fpage>
<lpage>1435</lpage>
<pub-id pub-id-type="pmid">2781285</pub-id>
</citation>
</ref>
</ref-list>...
In a bibliographic reference (punctuation and spacing preserved):
...<ref-list> <title>References</title> <ref id="B8"><label>8</label> <citation> <name><surname>Weissert</surname> <given-names>W</given-names></name>, <name><surname>Livieratos</surname> <given-names>B</given-names> </name>. <article-title>Effects and costs of day-care services for the chronically ill: a randomized experiment</article-title>. <source>Medical Care</source> <year>1980</year>; <volume>18</volume>: <fpage>567</fpage>–<lpage>584</lpage>. <pub-id pub-id-type="publisher-id">WES-6772889</pub-id>. </citation> </ref> </ref-list>...
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