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# biblioentry

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biblioentry — An entry in a `Bibliography`

## Synopsis

### Content Model

    biblioentry ::=
    ((articleinfo|
      (abbrev|abstract|address|artpagenums|author|authorgroup|
       authorinitials|bibliomisc|biblioset|collab|confgroup|
       contractnum|contractsponsor|copyright|corpauthor|corpname|
       corpcredit|date|edition|editor|invpartnumber|isbn|issn|
       issuenum|orgname|biblioid|citebiblioid|bibliosource|
       bibliorelation|bibliocoverage|othercredit|pagenums|
       printhistory|productname|productnumber|pubdate|publisher|
       publishername|pubsnumber|releaseinfo|revhistory|seriesvolnums|
       subtitle|title|titleabbrev|volumenum|citetitle|personname|
       honorific|firstname|surname|lineage|othername|affiliation|
       authorblurb|contrib|indexterm))+)

### Attributes

Common attributes

## Description

A `BiblioEntry` is an entry in a `Bibliography`. The contents of `BiblioEntry` is a “database” of named fields. Presentation systems frequently suppress some elements in a `BiblioEntry`.

### Processing expectations

Formatted as a displayed block.

`BiblioEntry`s are “raw.” They contain a database-like collection of named fields. It is the responsibility of the processing system to select elements from within a `BiblioEntry`, present them in the correct order, and add all punctuation.

There is no expectation that a system will present all of the fields in a `BiblioEntry` or that they will be displayed in the order in which they occur.

Correct formatting of `BiblioEntry`s is an interchange issue. See Appendix F, Interchanging DocBook Documents.

### Future Changes

`AuthorBlurb` and `Affiliation` will be removed from the inline content of `BiblioEntry` in DocBook V4.0. A new wrapper element will be created to associate this information with authors, editors, and other contributors.

`BookBiblio` will be discarded.

### Future Changes

`ArticleInfo` will be dropped from the content model of `BiblioEntry`.

### Parents

These elements contain biblioentry: `bibliodiv`, `bibliography`, `bibliolist`.

### Children

The following elements occur in biblioentry: `abbrev`, `abstract`, `address`, `affiliation`, `articleinfo`, `artpagenums`, `author`, `authorblurb`, `authorgroup`, `authorinitials`, `bibliocoverage`, `biblioid`, `bibliomisc`, `bibliorelation`, `biblioset`, `bibliosource`, `citebiblioid`, `citetitle`, `collab`, `confgroup`, `contractnum`, `contractsponsor`, `contrib`, `copyright`, `corpauthor`, `corpcredit`, `corpname`, `date`, `edition`, `editor`, `firstname`, `honorific`, `indexterm`, `invpartnumber`, `isbn`, `issn`, `issuenum`, `lineage`, `orgname`, `othercredit`, `othername`, `pagenums`, `personname`, `printhistory`, `productname`, `productnumber`, `pubdate`, `publisher`, `publishername`, `pubsnumber`, `releaseinfo`, `revhistory`, `seriesvolnums`, `subtitle`, `surname`, `title`, `titleabbrev`, `volumenum`.

## See Also

`bibliomisc`, `bibliomixed`, `bibliomset`, `biblioset`.

## Examples

For examples, see `bibliography`, `biblioset`.

bibliodiv |  | bibliography

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