<date>

Date

Container element for the parts of a single calendar date.

Remarks

Usage: A <date> element may contain date components such as <day>, <month>, and <year> (which are typically given numeric values), as well as non-numeric elements such as <season> (which is a text string).

When used within citations (<element-citation> and <mixed-citation>), this element names the publication date of the cited source.

Related Essay: For a discussion on the use of <date>, see Dates in Citations.

Attributes

date-type Type of Date
specific-use Specific Use

Related Elements

Within citations (<element-citation> and <mixed-citation>), this element is used to name the date of publication of the cited source. The elements <year>, <date>, <day>, <month>, and <season> may all be used to describe the date a cited resource was published. Other dates inside a citation, such as a copyright date, the date on which the author accessed the resource, or a withdrawal date, should be tagged using <date-in-citation> with the @content-type attribute used to name the type of date (copyright, access-date, time-stamp, etc.).

Content Model

<!ELEMENT  date         %date-model;                                 >

Expanded Content Model

(((day?, month?) | season)?, year)

Description

The following, in order:

This element may be contained in:

<element-citation>, <mixed-citation>, <product>, <related-article>, <related-object>

Example

No sample is available at this time.

Module

JATS-common0.ent