This element is used to capture the name of the state (an area forming part of a federal republic) of an article author's address, affiliated organisation address, referenced work address, or address mentioned in the body of the article. It may be used in international addresses to enclose equivalent concepts, such as "county".

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: <usa> <internat> <publicationfield-text> <pubplace> <ref-conf-text> <meetingloc> <address-text>

The DTD model for this element:

 (only text allowed) 

The DTD contains the following element and attribute definitions (note that embedded links are to definitions within the DTD page of this guide):

<!ELEMENT state                          (#PCDATA)>
<!ATTLIST state
               %a-group-CommonIDAttrs;>

Defined in DTD section Metadata : Article Metadata : Author Details : Address

Common Optional ID Attributes (a-group-CommonIDAttrs)