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CIF Telephone/Fax Numbers

Many CIF data items take as value a telephone or fax number (e.g. _publ_contact_author_phone). The convention for expressing a telephone or fax number is as follows. A complete telephone or fax number may be defined by concatenating and optionally The convention in the Core dictionary version 1.0, where the international dialing prefix was given in parentheses and an extension was indicated by the string "ext" (e.g. '(44) 1244 342878 ext 212'), is no longer recommended for writing CIFs, but CIF readers should accept it.

Examples

44(1244)342878x212
The telephone extension of the COMCIFS Coordinating Secretary at Chester (area code 01244), UK (international code 44)
44(1244)314888
The fax number of the IUCr office in Chester, UK
33()556846152
A telephone number in France, where area codes are not supported

Updated 12 August 1997

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