Qualifiers that follow a person’s name, for example, “Sr.”, “Jr.”, “III”, “3rd”, etc.
The <suffix> element can be used in two contexts:
As part of information about a contributor, the <suffix> element should be used for parts of people’s names, not for degrees (e.g., Ph.D. or DDS). 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>
<!ELEMENT suffix (#PCDATA %suffix-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 id="bid.2012">
<label>22</label>
<citation>
<person-group>
<name><surname>Peyret</surname>
<given-names>N</given-names></name>
<name><surname>Seneviratne</surname>
<given-names>P A</given-names></name>
<name><surname>Allawi</surname>
<given-names>H T</given-names></name>
<name><surname>SantaLucia</surname>
<given-names>J</given-names>
<suffix>Jr.</suffix></name>
</person-group>
<article-title>Nearest-neighbor thermodynamics and NMR
of DNA sequences with internal A.A. C.C, G.G, and T.T
mismatches</article-title>
<source>Biochemistry</source>
<year>1999</year>
<volume>38</volume>
<fpage>3468</fpage>
<lpage>3477</lpage>
<pub-id pub-id-type="pmid">10090733</pub-id>
</citation>
</ref>
...
In a bibliographic reference (punctuation and spacing preserved):
...
<ref id="bid.2012">
<label>22</label>
<citation>
<name><surname>Peyret</surname>
<given-names>N</given-names></name>,
<name><surname>Seneviratne</surname>
<given-names>P A</given-names></name>,
<name><surname>Allawi</surname>
<given-names>H T</given-names></name>,
<name><surname>SantaLucia</surname>
<given-names>J</given-names>,
<suffix>Jr.</suffix></name>
<article-title>Nearest-neighbor thermodynamics and NMR
of DNA sequences with internal A.A. C.C, G.G, and T.T
mismatches</article-title>. <source>Biochemistry</source>
<year>1999</year>; <volume>38</volume>:
<fpage>3468</fpage>–<lpage>3477</lpage>.
<pub-id pub-id-type="pmid">10090733</pub-id>.
</citation>
</ref>
...
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