A group of authors, editors, or other contributors credited under a single name, either as a collaboration in the strict sense of the word, or when an organization such as a laboratory, educational institution, corporation, or department acts as the contributor, for example authored the work
Not to be confused with the element <contrib-group>, which is a container element that holds information such as the names and affiliations of a group of individual contributors.
This element may be used within bibliographic references (<element-citation> and <mixed-citation>).
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Any combination of:
<contrib>, <element-citation>, <mixed-citation>, <nlm-citation>, <person-group>, <product>, <related-article>, <related-object>
Collaboration with internal semantic material tagged:
... <contrib-group> <contrib contrib-type="author"> <collab> <named-content content-type="program">Joint United Nations Program on HIV/AIDS (UNAIDS)</named-content>, <institution>World Health Organization</institution>, Geneva, <country>Switzerland</country> </collab> </contrib> <contrib contrib-type="author"> <collab> <named-content content-type="program">Nonoccupational HIV PEP Task Force, Brown University AIDS Program</named-content> and the <institution>Rhode Island Department of Health</institution>, Providence, Rhode Island</collab> </contrib> </contrib-group> ...
In an element-style bibliographic reference (punctuation and spacing removed):
...
<ref id="bid.1626">
<label>2</label>
<element-citation>
<person-group/>
<collab>The BAC Resource Consortium</collab>
<year>2001</year>
<article-title>Integration of cytogenetic landmarks into
the draft sequence of the human genome</article-title>
<source>Nature</source>
<volume>409</volume>
<fpage>953</fpage>
<lpage>958</lpage>
<pub-id pub-id-type="pmid">11237021</pub-id>
</element-citation>
</ref>
...
In a mixed-style bibliographic reference (punctuation and spacing preserved):
...
<ref id="B1"><label>1</label>
<mixed-citation publication-type="book">
<collab>Research Unit of the Royal College
of Physicians and British Geriatric
Society</collab>. <source>Geriatric day
hospitals: their role and guidelines for
good practice</source>.
<publisher-loc>London</publisher-loc>:
<publisher-name>RCP</publisher-name>;
(<year>1994</year>).
</mixed-citation>
</ref>
...
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