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.
| Value | Meaning |
|---|---|
| allauthors | Used to identify a complete list of authors when a subset of the author group is used elsewhere in the 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. |
| 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. |
| Restriction: This attribute may be specified if the element is used. | |