DocBook 5: The Definitive Guide

Name

citation — An inline bibliographic reference to another published work

Synopsis

citation ::= (text | Bibliography inlines | Error inlines | Graphic inlines | GUI inlines | Indexing inlines | Keyboard inlines | Linking inlines | Markup inlines | Math inlines | Object-oriented programming inlines | Operating system inlines | Product inlines | Programming inlines | Publishing inlines | Technical inlines | Ubiquitous inlines)*

Attribute synopsis

Common attributes and common linking attributes.

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.

See Also

citebiblioid, citerefentry, citetitle

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> ...