A group of authors (contributors) credited under one name, either as a collaboration in the strictest sense, or when an organization, institution, or corporation is the author.
Not to be confused with the element Contributor Group <contrib>, which is just a wrapper element that holds information, such as the names and affiliations of a group of individual contributors.
This element may be used in bibliographic references <citation> and <nlm-citation>. For extensive examples of formatted <nlm-citation>s including use of <collab>s in <nlm-citation>s, see: Sample PubMed Central Citations. To see tagged versions of these examples, see: Sample PubMed Central Citations - XML Tagged.
Any combination of:
<nlm-citation citation-type="journal">
<collab>The Royal Marsden Hospital Bone-Marrow Transplantation Team</collab>
<article-title>Failure of syngeneic bone-marrow graft without preconditioning in post-hepatitis marrow aplasia</article-title>
<source>Lancet</source>
<year>1977</year>
<month>10</month>
<day>8</day>
<volume>2</volume>
<issue>8041</issue>
<fpage>742</fpage>
<lpage>744</lpage>
</nlm-citation>
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