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

These elements contain editor: authorgroup, biblioentry, bibliomixed, bibliomset, biblioset, bridgehead, citation, citetitle, contrib, emphasis (db.emphasis), entry, firstterm (db.firstterm), foreignphrase (db.foreignphrase), glosssee, glossseealso, glossterm (db.glossterm), info (db.info), info (db.titleforbidden.info), info (db.titleonly.info), info (db.titleonlyreq.info), info (db.titlereq.info), 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.

The following elements occur in editor: address, affiliation, contrib, email, orgdiv, orgname, personblurb, personname, uri.