An S4 class for the authors of a Neotoma publication.

This class combines the S4 class contact with a numeric author order. This allows us to reuse contact objects, and to assign the authorship order within a publication. The full set of authors for a publication are represented by the authors object.

Value

object of class author

Examples

{
simon <- new("contact", familyname = "Goring", givennames = "Simon J.")
firstauthor <- new("author", author = simon, order = 1)
}