Child Elements

Each Source element has a number of elements as children, each of which represents a different piece of data for the bibliography entries. For example, a book might have an author, title, publisher, year, and city. Most are self-explanatory, but this document will pay special attention to some of the more complex children.

The child elements are:

  • AbbreviatedCaseNumber

  • AlbumTitle

  • Author

  • BookTitle

  • Broadcaster

  • BroadcastTitle

  • CaseNumber

  • ChapterNumber

  • City

  • Comments

  • ConferenceName

  • Country

  • CountryRegion

  • Court

  • Day

  • DayAccessed

  • Department

  • Distributor

  • Edition

  • Guid

  • Institution

  • InternetSiteTitle

  • Issue

  • JournalName

  • LCID

  • Medium

  • Month

  • MonthAccessed

  • NumberVolumes

  • Pages

  • PatentNumber

  • PeriodicalTitle

  • PlacePublished

  • ProductionCompany

  • PublicationTitle

  • Publisher

  • RecordingNumber

  • RefOrder

  • Reporter

  • SourceType

  • ShortTitle

  • StandardNumber

  • StateProvince

  • Station

  • Tag

  • Theater

  • ThesisType

  • Title

  • Type

  • URL

  • Version

  • Volume

  • Year

  • YearAccessed

An example of the XML defining a source of type Book with the title Office Open XML formats, and two Authors named Jones, Brian and Davis, Tristan is:

<b:Source>
  <b:Tag>Las07</b:Tag>
  <b:SourceType>Book</b:SourceType>
  <b:Author>
    <b:Author>
      <b:NameList>
        <b:Person>
          <b:Last>Jones</b:Last>
          <b:First>Brian</b:First>
        </b:Person>
        <b:Person>
          <b:Last>Davis</b:Last>
          <b:First>Tristan</b:First>
        </b:Person>
      </b:NameList>
    </b:Author>
  </b:Author>
  <b:Title>Office Open XML formats</b:Title>
  <b:Year>2007</b:Year>
  <b:City>Trondheim</b:City>
  <b:Publisher>Publisher</b:Publisher>
  <b:Comments>Comments</b:Comments>
  <b:RefOrder>1</b:RefOrder>
  <b:Guid>{DCC25FA1-67CC-4013-B56A-2D42CED7FF0C}</b:Guid>
  <b:LCID>0</b:LCID>
</b:Source>