The <bio> element should be used to hold biographical information concerning a contributor/author (places they have been, things they have done) or the description of a collaboration. In a typeset article, biographical information may commonly appear as a footnote on the article opening page or in the back of the article.
Author biographies should be tagged in the <bio> element inside <contrib-group>. A link from each author’s <contrib> element to the respective author’s <bio> should be made using <xref>. Every <bio> element needs an @id attribute, which is pointed to by an <xref> element in the appropriate <contrib>, with a @ref-type of “bio” and a matching @rid. Every <xref> with a @ref-type of “bio” must point to a <bio> element.
Each contributor’s biography should normally be captured in a separate <bio> element. In some instances a single biography may jointly describe two or more contributors, and in these instances a single <bio> element may be used and <xref> elements in each <contrib> should link each contributor described to the <bio>.
The <title> of a <bio> should not repeat the name of the author.
If there is an author photo provided, it should be tagged in a <fig> element within the <bio> element.
See Opening Page Footnotes for more information about tagging for opening page footnotes.
See Authors and Affiliations for more information about tagging for contributor/author information.
<contrib-group>
<contrib contrib-type="author">
<name>
<surname>Scholar</surname>
<given-names>Som</given-names>
</name>
<xref ref-type="bio" rid="b0001"/>
</contrib>
<bio id="b0001">
<p><bold>Som Scholar’s</bold> latest translation is Abdourahman A. Waberi's
novel <italic>Transit</italic> (Indiana University Press, 2012),
in collaboration with El Presidente. A past president of ALTA,
Som is Professor Emeritus of French and Comparative Literature
at Smith College. He is now working on Jean Guéhenno's
<italic>Diary of the Dark Years</italic> for Oxford University Press.</p>
</bio>
</contrib-group>