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<day> Day
Numeric, two-digit value of the day of the month.
Usage/Remarks
The <day> element names a day of the month, in two-digit form as it would be stated as the
“DD” in the international date format YYYY-MM-DD (for example, “03” for the third,
“25” for the twenty-fifth).
Used in both the article metadata (<article-meta>) and within bibliographic references (<element-citation> and <mixed-citation>).
Attributes
Multi-lang Attributes
Models and Context
May be contained in
Description
Text, numbers, or special characters
Content Model
<!ELEMENT day (#PCDATA) >
Tagged Samples
In <event> <pub-history>
...
<article-meta>
...
<contrib-group>
<contrib contrib-type="author">
<collab-name collab-type="committee">Technical Committee ISO/TC 108,
Subcommittee SC 2</collab-name>
</contrib>
</contrib-group>
<fpage seq="1">1</fpage>
<lpage>23</lpage>
<pub-history>
<event>
<date date-type="approved" iso-8601-date="2012-06-01">
<day>01</day>
<month>06</month>
<year>2012</year>
</date>
</event>
</pub-history>
...
</article-meta>
...
In <pub-date> and in <event> <pub-history>
... <article-meta> <article-id pub-id-type="pmid">10092260</article-id> ...... <pub-date publication-format="print" date-type="pub" iso-8601-date="1999-03-27"> <day>27</day><month>03</month><year>1999</year> </pub-date>... <pub-history> <event> <date date-type="accepted" iso-8601-date="1999-01-29"> <day>29</day> <month>01</month> <year>1999</year> </date> </event> </pub-history>...
Publication date in citations
Mixed citation
...
<ref>
<mixed-citation publication-type="book" publication-format="web">
<source>Fact sheet: AIDS information resources</source>
[Internet]. <publisher-loc>Bethesda
(MD)</publisher-loc>: <publisher-name>National
Library of Medicine (US)</publisher-name>;
<year iso-8601-date="2003-05-02">2003</year> <month>May</month>
<day>2</day> [updated <date-in-citation content-type="updated"
iso-8601-date="2005-07-14">2005 Jul 14</date-in-citation>;
cited <date-in-citation content-type="access-date"
iso-8601-date="2006-11-15">2006 Nov 15</date-in-citation>].
<size units="screens">[about 3 screens]</size>. Available from:
<uri>http://www.nlm.nih.gov/pubs/factsheets/aidsinfs.html</uri>.
</mixed-citation>
</ref>
...
Element citation
...
<ref>
<element-citation publication-type="book" publication-format="web">
<source>Fact sheet: AIDS information resources</source>
<comment>[Internet]</comment>
<publisher-loc>Bethesda (MD)</publisher-loc>
<publisher-name>National Library of Medicine (US)</publisher-name>
<year iso-8601-date="2002-05-02">2003</year>
<month>May</month>
<day>2</day>
<date-in-citation content-type="updated"
iso-8601-date="2005-07-14">updated 2005 Jul 14</date-in-citation>
<date-in-citation content-type="access-date"
iso-8601-date="2006-11-15">cited 2006 Nov 15</date-in-citation>
<size units="screens">[about 3 screens]</size>
<comment>Available from:
<uri>http://www.nlm.nih.gov/pubs/factsheets/aidsinfs.html</uri>
</comment>
</element-citation>
</ref>
...
Related Resource
For a discussion on the use of <day>, see: Dates in Citations.