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Version: DocBook V4.5

affiliation

affiliation — The institutional affiliation of an individual

Synopsis​

Content Model​

affiliation ::=
(shortaffil?,jobtitle*,orgname?,orgdiv*,address*)

Attributes​

Common attributes

Description​

The institutional affiliation of an author, contributor, or other individual.

Processing expectations​

May be formatted inline or as a displayed block, depending on context. Sometimes suppressed.

Future Changes​

In DocBook V4.0, Affiliation will be removed from some of the places in which it now occurs. Instead of appearing inside Author, for example, a new wrapper element will be created to hold Author, AuthorBlurb, and Affiliation.

Parents​

These elements contain affiliation: address, appendixinfo, articleinfo, author, biblioentry, bibliographyinfo, bibliomixed, bibliomset, biblioset, blockinfo, bookinfo, chapterinfo, collab, editor, glossaryinfo, indexinfo, objectinfo, othercredit, partinfo, prefaceinfo, refentryinfo, referenceinfo, refsect1info, refsect2info, refsect3info, refsectioninfo, refsynopsisdivinfo, sect1info, sect2info, sect3info, sect4info, sect5info, sectioninfo, setindexinfo, setinfo, sidebarinfo.

Children​

The following elements occur in affiliation: address, jobtitle, orgdiv, orgname, shortaffil.

See Also​

corpname, firstname, honorific, jobtitle, lineage, orgdiv, orgname, othername, shortaffil, surname.

Examples​

For examples, see author, authorgroup, bookinfo, contractsponsor.