Description
This element contains the title of the role that the article author occupies at an institution this author is affiliated to, and methods of contacting the author at this institution. It must contain an attribute that identifies the affiliated institution, but need not actually contain a postion title or contact details at the address of the institution:
<author seq="1">
...
<contactinfo>
<contact>
<position affilref="AF0001" primaryaffiliation="yes"/>
</contact>
</contactinfo>
</author>
...
<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>
However, a title and contact method can also be provided:
<author seq="1">
...
<contactinfo>
<contact>
<position affilref="AF0001">
<afftitle>Top Scientist</afftitle><email>author@affiliation</email>
</position>
</contact>
</contactinfo>
</author>
...
</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:
--+(sequence)
|
affiltitle (optional) -- TEXT
|
email (optional and repeatable) -- (TEXT and elements)
|
phone (optional and repeatable) -- TEXT
|
fax (optional and repeatable) -- TEXT
|
webaddress (optional and repeatable) -- (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 position (affiltitle?, email*, phone*, fax*, webaddress*)>
<!ATTLIST position
affilref IDREF #REQUIRED
primaryaffiliation (yes | no) "no"
%a-group-CommonIDAttrs;>
.
Defined in DTD section
Metadata : Article Metadata : Author Details : Affiliations
General Attributes (shared with other elements)
Local Attributes (defined for this element alone)
Attribute:
affilref (
Affiliation Reference)
Description
This required attribute established the link to the correct
<affiliation> element.
Note that this separation of affiliation details from author contact details allows author details to simple reference the same institution address (or addresses):
<author seq="1">
...
<position affilref="AF0001" primaryaffiliation="yes"/>
...
</author>
<author seq="2">
...
<position affilref="AF0001" primaryaffiliation="yes"/>
...
</author>
...
<affiliation id="AF0001">...</affiliation>
Specification
This attribute is required. It holds a reference to a unique identifier code on another element.
DTD Definition
affilref IDREF #REQUIRED
.
Description
This attribute identifies the primary affiliation when the author is affiliated to several organisations. It is not needed when this is the not the primary affiliation, as the default value is "no". It should only be added and given the value "yes" once for each author.
Specification
This attribute is required but has a default value of "no". The allowed values are "yes" and "no".
DTD Definition
primaryaffiliation (yes | no) "no"
.