## ISO Standards Tag Set (ISOSTS) version 0.5: A customization of NISO JATS version 0.4

#### International Organization for Standardization (ISO)

# country

An abbreviation or code that names a country. This is information that can be used to identify a country that granted a patent or to provide a machine-comparable form of the name of a country as an addition to the content of the <country> element.

## Remarks

Best Practice: Although this attribute is optional and open to any value, for best practice, the country code should be provided whenever it is known, and the ISO 3166-1 2-letter alphabetic codes should be used, for example:

US | United States
GB | United Kingdom
CA | Canada

The complete list is available from ISO, in HTML, text-file, and XML-file versions at the following location: http://www.iso.org/iso/en/prods-services/iso3166ma/02iso-3166-code-lists/index.html.

On the element <country>, archives and publishers can use this attribute to regularize the input for searching without altering the element content, for example, placing a country code in the attribute when the <country> element content is fully spelled out or uses a non-standard country abbreviation.

## Attribute Values

#### In Elements

##### <country>

##### <funding-source>

##### <patent>

Value | Meaning
--- | ---
Data characters | Text, numbers, or special characters.
Restriction: This attribute may be specified if the element is used.

## ISO Standards Tag Set (ISOSTS) version 0.5: A customization of NISO JATS version 0.4

#### Version of September 2011