<inits> (Initials) Description .email comment.
Changed in version 1.6.
Description
This element contains the initials representing the middle names of the author of the article (but not for author or editor names in references).
Note that this element is an alternative for the <middlename> element when only the first letter of the middle name is known.
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.
Parent elements: <name>
Model Diagram
The DTD model for this element:
--+(choice of TEXT with elements repeated) 
  |  
  |--+(choice) [Name Mixture]
  |  |  
  |  |-- footnoteref  -- (TEXT and elements)
  |  |  
  |  |-- xref  -- (TEXT and elements)
  |  |  
  |  |-- citationref  -- (TEXT and elements)
  |  |  
  |  |-- endnoteref  -- (TEXT and elements)
  |  |  
  |  |-- sup  -- (TEXT and elements)
  |  |  
  |  |-- sub  -- (TEXT and 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 inits                          (#PCDATA | %NameMixture;)*>
<!ATTLIST inits
               %a-group-CommonIDAttrs;>
.
Defined in DTD section Metadata : Article Metadata : Author Details
General Attributes (shared with other elements)
Common Optional ID Attributes (a-group-CommonIDAttrs)