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citation

citation — An inline bibliographic reference to another published work.

Synopsis

citation ::= [x]  [+]

Description

The content of a citation is assumed to be a reference string, perhaps identical to an abbreviation in an entry in a bibliography.

Processing expectations

Formatted inline.

Parents

These elements contain citation: attribution, bridgehead, citation, citetitle, contrib, emphasis (db.emphasis), entry, firstterm (db.firstterm), foreignphrase (db.foreignphrase), glosssee, glossseealso, glossterm (db.glossterm), line, link, literallayout, member, olink, orgdiv, para, phrase (db.phrase), primary, quote (db.quote), remark, secondary, see, seealso, simpara, subtitle, term, termdef, tertiary, title, titleabbrev.

Children

The following elements occur in citation: text, abbrev, acronym, alt, anchor, author, biblioref, citation, citebiblioid, citetitle, coref, date, editor, email, emphasis (db._emphasis), emphasis (db.emphasis), firstterm (db._firstterm), firstterm (db.firstterm), footnote, footnoteref, foreignphrase (db._foreignphrase), foreignphrase (db.foreignphrase), glossterm (db._glossterm), glossterm (db.glossterm), indexterm (db.indexterm.endofrange), indexterm (db.indexterm.singular), indexterm (db.indexterm.startofrange), inlineequation, inlinemediaobject, jobtitle, link, literal, olink, optional, org, orgname, person, personname, phrase (db._phrase), phrase (db.phrase), productname, productnumber, quote (db._quote), quote (db.quote), remark, subscript, superscript, termdef, trademark, uri, wordasword, xref.

Examples

<article xmlns='http://docbook.org/ns/docbook' version='5.0'>
<title>Example citation</title>

<para>Consult <citation>AhoSethiUllman96</citation> for more details on
abstract syntax tree construction.
</para>

<para>…</para>

<bibliolist>
<title>Bibliography</title>

<biblioentry>
  <abbrev>AhoSethiUllman96</abbrev>
  <authorgroup>
    <author><personname>
      <firstname>Alfred V.</firstname><surname>Aho</surname>
    </personname></author>
    <author><personname>
      <firstname>Ravi</firstname><surname>Sethi</surname>
    </personname></author>
    <author><personname>
      <firstname>Jeffrey D.</firstname><surname>Ullman</surname>
    </personname></author>
  </authorgroup>
  <copyright><year>1996</year>
             <holder>Bell Telephone Laboratories, Inc.</holder></copyright>
  <editor>
    <personname>
      <firstname>James T.</firstname><surname>DeWolf</surname>
    </personname>
  </editor>
  <biblioid class="isbn">0-201-10088-6</biblioid>
  <publisher>
    <publishername>Addison-Wesley Publishing Company</publishername>
  </publisher>
  <citetitle>Compilers, Principles, Techniques, and Tools</citetitle>
</biblioentry>
</bibliolist>

</article>

Consult [AhoSethiUllman96] for more details on abstract syntax tree construction.

…

Bibliography

[AhoSethiUllman96] Alfred V. Aho, Ravi Sethi, and Jeffrey D. Ullman. Copyright © 1996 Bell Telephone Laboratories, Inc. James T. DeWolf. 0-201-10088-6. Addison-Wesley Publishing Company. Compilers, Principles, Techniques, and Tools.