Description
This element contains a single set of contact details for the author of the article. This might be an address, or electronic contact details along with the position of the author at a given organisation (there must be a reference to the markup that describes the affiliated organisation).
<contact>
<position affilref="AF0001" primaryaffiliation="yes"/>
</contact>
...
<affiliation id="AF0001">
<institution>
<department>Graduate School of Applied and Professional Psychology</department>
<institutionname>Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey</institutionname>
</institution>
<address>...</address>
</affiliation>
Parent Elements
The elements listed below may directly contain this element.
They are "parent" elements. Elements in referenced groups are included, up to two levels of group nesting.
Model Diagram
The DTD model for this element:
--+(choice)
|
|-- position -- (elements)
|
|-- address -- (elements)
DTD Definition
The DTD contains the following element and attribute definitions
(note that embedded links are to definitions within the DTD page of this guide):
<!ELEMENT contact (position | address)>
<!ATTLIST contact
corresponding (yes | no) "no"
postpub (yes | no) "no"
biocontact (yes | no) "no"
%a-group-CommonIDAttrs;>
.
Defined in DTD section
Metadata : Article Metadata : Author Details
General Attributes (shared with other elements)
Local Attributes (defined for this element alone)
Description
This attribute can be added and given the value "yes" to indicate that the author is prepared to correspond from this physical or electronic address in regard to production of the article.
Specification
This attribute is required but has a default value of "no". The allowed values are "yes" and "no".
DTD Definition
corresponding (yes | no) "no"
.
Description
This attribute, when added and given the value "yes", indicates that these contact details are current and were established after the article was published.
Specification
This attribute is required but has a default value of "no". The allowed values are "yes" and "no".
DTD Definition
postpub (yes | no) "no"
.
Description
This attribute specifies whether or not an enclosed address is to be considered as biographical information (as if it were stored within the
<bioinfo> element itself), when set to "yes". The author is happy to be contacted by this address.
Specification
This attribute is required but has a default value of "no". The allowed values are "yes" and "no".
DTD Definition
biocontact (yes | no) "no"
.