person-group-type

Type of People in the Person Group

Identifies the “role” of the persons being named in the <person-group> element, for example, a group of authors, a group of editors, members of the G&S chorus, etc.

Attribute Values

In Element

<person-group>
Value Meaning
Text, numbers, or special characters The role played by the person group in the creation/production of the article, for example “editors”. This attribute may take any value, but see the list of suggested values below.
Restriction: This attribute may be specified if the element is used.

Suggested usage

Although this attribute may contain any text, suggested types include:

all-authors

Used to identify a complete list of authors when a subset of the author group is used elsewhere in a citation. This may occur, for example, when a citation identifies both a book and a chapter within the book.

assignee

Persons to whom a patent is awarded

author

Content creators

compiler

Persons who put together a composite work from multiple sources

director

Directors

editor

Content editors

guest-editor

Content editors that have been invited to edit all or part of a work

inventor

Idea, software, or machine creators

transed

Editors of a translated version of a work

translator

Persons who translated the cited work from one language into another