The edition number of a cited publication
For a detailed discussion on the use of <edition>, see Ordinal Numbers.
This element may be used as part of a book’s metadata (<book-meta>) or in bibliographic references (<element-citation> or <mixed-citation>).
<!ELEMENT edition (#PCDATA %edition-elements;)* >
(#PCDATA | bold | italic | monospace | overline | overline-start | overline-end | roman | sans-serif | sc | strike | underline | underline-start | underline-end | named-content | styled-content | sub | sup)*
Any combination of:
<book-meta>, <element-citation>, <mixed-citation>, <nlm-citation>, <product>, <related-article>, <related-object>
<book>
<book-meta>
<book-id pub-id-type="other">handbook</book-id>
<book-title-group>
<book-title>The NCBI Handbook</book-title>
</book-title-group>
<edition>1<sup>st</sup></edition>
<contrib-group>
<contrib contrib-type="editor" rid="bid.m.1">
<name><surname>McEntyre</surname>
<given-names>Jo</given-names></name>
</contrib>
<contrib contrib-type="editor" rid="bid.m.1">
<name><surname>Ostell</surname>
<given-names>Jim</given-names></name>
</contrib>
</contrib-group>
<aff id="bid.m.1">
<institution>National Center for Biotechnology Information
(NCBI), National Library of Medicine, National Institutes
of Health</institution>,
<addr-line>Bethesda, MD 20892-6510</addr-line>
</aff>
<publisher>
<publisher-name>National Center for Biotechnology Information
(NCBI), National Library of Medicine, National Institutes
of Health</publisher-name>
<publisher-loc>Bethesda, MD</publisher-loc></publisher>
<pub-date><month>11</month><year>2002</year></pub-date>
<counts>
<fig-count count="98"/>
<table-count count="40"/>
<equation-count count="0"/>
<ref-count count="115"/>
<page-count count="532"/>
<word-count count="149852"/>
</counts>
</book-meta>
<book-front>...</book-front>
<body>...</body>
<back>...</back>
</book>
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