author

author — The name of an individual author.

Synopsis

Parents
×

author ::=

Attributes

Common attributes and common linking attributes.

Description

The author element holds information about the author of a document. When inside one of the bibliographic elements, author refers to the author of the document described by that element. Otherwise, it refers to the author of the current document or document section.

Processing expectations

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

Parents

25 elements contain author. × ⏵

These elements contain author: authorgroup, bibliomixed, bibliomset, caption (db.html.caption), citetitle, emphasis, entry, info (db.info), info (db.titleforbidden.info), info (db.titleonly.info), info (db.titleonlyreq.info), info (db.titlereq.info), link, literallayout, para, phrase (db.phrase), programlisting, quote, revision, subtitle, td, term, th, title, titleabbrev.

Children

5 elements occur in author. × ⏵

The following elements occur in author: affiliation, email, orgname, personblurb, personname.

See Also

Related elements: authorgroup, editor, othercredit, personblurb, personname.

Examples

 1 |<article xmlns='http://docbook.org/ns/docbook'>
   |<info>
   |  <title>Example author</title>
   | 
 5 |  <author>
   |    <personname>
   |      <honorific>Mr</honorific>
   |      <firstname>Norman</firstname>
   |      <surname>Walsh</surname>
10 |      <othername role='mi'>D</othername>
   |    </personname>
   |    <affiliation>
   |      <shortaffil>ATI</shortaffil>
   |      <jobtitle>Senior Application Analyst</jobtitle>
15 |      <orgname>ArborText, Inc.</orgname>
   |      <orgdiv>Application Developement</orgdiv>
   |    </affiliation>
   |  </author>
   |</info>
20 | 
   |<para>…</para>
   | 
   |</article>