Role of the persons being named in <person-group> element (for example, authors, editors, members of the G&S chorus).
| Value | Meaning |
|---|---|
| allauthors | Used to identify a complete list of authors when a subset of the author group is used elsewhere in the citation. This may occur, for example, when a citation identifies both a book and a chapter within the book. |
| assignee | Persons to whom a patent is awarded. |
| author | Content creators. |
| compiler | Persons who put together a composite work from multiple sources. |
| curator | Person or group responsible for data curation or archival curation. |
| custom | Not one of the meanings named in this list. The type can be found as the value of the attribute @custom-type. |
| director | Directors. |
| editor | Content editors. |
| guest-editor | Content editors that have been invited to edit all or part of a work. |
| illustrator | Creator of the pictures, drawings, videos, or other graphic illustrations or media (includes photographer) |
| inventor | Idea, software, or machine creators. |
| research-assistant | Assisted with the scientific research that is the basis for a work |
| transed | Editors of a translated version of a work. |
| translator | Persons who translated the cited work from one language into another. |