The edition number of a cited publication.
This element is used in bibliographic references <citation> and <nlm-citation>. For extensive examples of formatted <nlm-citation>s including use of <edition>s in <nlm-citation>s, see: Sample PubMed Central Citations. To see tagged versions of these examples, see: Sample PubMed Central Citations - XML Tagged.
Text, numbers, or special characters.
In article metadata
<article>
<front>
...</front>
<body>...</body>
<back>...
<ref-list>
<title>REFERENCES</title>
...
<ref id="B6">
<citation>
<collab>National Committee for Clinical Laboratory
Standards</collab>
<source>Performance standards for antimicrobial disk
susceptibility tests. Approved standard</source>
<year>2000</year>
<edition>7th ed.</edition>
<publisher-loc>Wayne, Pa</publisher-loc><publisher-name>National Committee for Clinical
Laboratory Standards</publisher-name><fpage>M2</fpage>
<lpage>A7</lpage>
</citation>
</ref>
...
</ref-list>
</back>
</article>
In a NLM-style bibliographic citation
<nlm-citation citation-type="journal">
<person-group>
<name>
<surname>Allen</surname>
<given-names>CP</given-names>
</name>
<name>
<surname>Calvert</surname>
<given-names>PT</given-names>
</name>
</person-group>
<article-title>Simultaneous upper femoral epiphysis in identical twins</article-title>
<source>J Bone Joint Surg</source>
<year>1990</year>
<month>Sep</month>
<volume>72</volume>
<edition>Br Vol</edition>
<issue>5</issue>
<fpage>928</fpage>
<lpage>929</lpage>
</nlm-citation>
references.ent