Name of a institution or organization, such as a university or corporation, that is the affiliation for a contributor such as an author or an editor
All levels of a multi-tier organization are listed within a single <aff> element, for example, a program, a department, and a university may be part of the same <aff>. Similarly, both a division and a corporation would be inside one <aff>.
Conversion Note: In a typical case, the @id attribute of an contributor’s affiliation (<aff>), correspondence information (<corresp>), or any footnote in the author note group will be pointed to from one or more <contrib> elements, thereby linking the two.
However, in those instances in which a symbol or some other mechanism denotes a relationship between a contributor and his/her affiliation, correspondence information, etc., use <xref> to point to the affiliation (<aff>), the corresponding information (<corresp>), or footnote in the author note group.
Conversion Note: Even if the explicitly tagged numbers or symbols for author linkages are preserved in conversion, the ID/IDREF linking mechanism should be maintained or created during conversion.
Conversion Note: If an archive wishes to record divisional distinctions made by a publisher, such as an “<institution>” element with “<dept>” and “<office>” sub-elements for the affiliation, the embedded divisions could be converted to this Tag Set using <named-content> elements:
<aff>
<institution content-type="edu">
University of Frostbite Falls
<named-content content-type="dept">Dept of Campus Security
</named-content>
<named-content content-type="dept">Dept of Moose and Squirrel
Security</named-content>
<named-content content-type="office">Office of the Acting Dean
</named-content>
</institution>
</aff><!ELEMENT aff (#PCDATA %aff-elements;)* >
(#PCDATA | addr-line | country | fax | institution | phone | email | ext-link | multi-link | uri | inline-supplementary-material | related-article | related-object | break | bold | italic | monospace | overline | overline-start | overline-end | roman | sans-serif | sc | strike | underline | underline-start | underline-end | label | fn | target | xref | sub | sup)*
Any combination of:
<book-meta>, <book-part-meta>, <collab>, <contrib>, <contrib-group>, <person-group>
In an element-style bibliographic reference (punctuation and spacing removed):
...
<ref>
<element-citation publication-type="journal" publication-format="print">
<person-group>
<name><surname>Pinet</surname>
<given-names>LM</given-names></name>
<aff>Departamento de Servicios de Salud de
Emergencia, Escuela de Posgrado, Universidad
de Maryland, Condado de Baltimore, USA.
<email>lpinetl@umbc.edu</email>
</aff>
</person-group>
<trans-title xml:lang="en">Prehospital emergency
care in Mexico City: the opportunities of the
healthcare system</trans-title>
<source>Salud Publica Mex</source>
<year>2005</year>
<month>Jan-Feb</month>
<volume>47</volume>
<issue>1</issue>
<fpage>64</fpage>
<lpage>71</lpage>
<comment>Spanish</comment>
</element-citation>
</ref>
...
In a contributor group in article metadata
...
<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-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>
<pub-date><month>11</month><year>2002</year></pub-date>
<counts>...</counts>
</book-meta>
...
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