Remarks

The word “series” is used in this Tag Set with two very different meanings. The element <series> is used for only one of those meanings, and the two elements <series-text> and <series-title> are used only for the other.

• <series> is used in elements that include citation information (<element-citation>, <mixed-citation>, <related-article>, <related-object>, <product>) to identify publications that are part of a published series. For example, a publisher may issue a “Nursing References Series” that includes a book on the history of nursing, one on current nursing practices, one on nursing education, and another containing nurses’ professional experiences. The <series> tag is used to capture that “Nursing Reference Series” information.
• <series-text> and <series-title> are used to identify a collection of articles within an issue or a collection of similar articles across multiple issues. For example, a single issue of a journal may contain numerous colloquium papers that can be identified as part of a series by including <series-title>Colloquium</series-title> in each article’s metadata. An example of a series that spans issues is the “Inaugural Article” series in PNAS. These articles from newly-elected members of the National Academy of Sciences are all part of the same series, but appear in different issues of the journal.

<!ELEMENT  series-title (#PCDATA %series-title-elements;)*           >

...
<article-meta>
<article-id pub-id-type="publisher-id">ME-1982-8-35</article-id>
<article-categories>
<series-title>Marine Ecology Progress Series</series-title>
</article-categories>
<title-group>
<article-title>Ecology of Heterotropic Microflagellates. IV. 
Quantitative Occurrence and Importance as Bacterial 
Consumers</article-title>
</title-group>
<contrib-group>
<contrib>
<name><surname>Fenchel</surname>
<given-names>P</given-names>
</name></contrib>
</contrib-group>
<pub-date>
<year>2009</year>
</pub-date>
<volume>8</volume>
<fpage>35</fpage>
<lpage>42</lpage>
</article-meta>
</front>...