A group of authors (contributors) credited under one name, either as a collaboration in the strictest sense, or when an organization, institution, or corporation is the author
Not to be confused with <contrib-group>, which is just a wrapper element that holds information such as the names and affiliations of a group of individual contributors.
This element may be used within bibliographic references (<citation> or <nlm-citation>).
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Any combination of:
In a bibliographic reference (punctuation and spacing removed):
...
<ref id="bid.1626">
<label>2</label>
<citation>
<person-group/>
<collab>The BAC Resource Consortium</collab>
<year>2001</year>
<article-title>Integration of cytogenetic landmarks into
the draft sequence of the human genome</article-title>
<source>Nature</source>
<volume>409</volume>
<fpage>953</fpage>
<lpage>958</lpage>
<pub-id pub-id-type="pmid">11237021</pub-id>
</citation>
</ref>
...
In a bibliographic reference (punctuation and spacing preserved):
...
<ref id="B1"><label>1</label>
<citation citation-type="book">
<collab>Research Unit of the Royal
College of Physicians and British
Geriatric Society</collab>.
<source>Geriatric day hospitals: their role
and guidelines for good
practice</source>.
<publisher-loc>London</publisher-loc>:
<publisher-name>RCP</publisher-name>;
<year>1994</year>.
</citation>
</ref>
...
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