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<month> Month

Names one of the months of the year, such as “July” or “07”.

Usage/Remarks

This element is used only inside citations and related elements in this tag set. A <month> element may contain the textual name of a month (“December”), a month-name abbreviation (“Dec”), or a numeric month (“12”). For ease in comparisons and searching, it is preferable that months be converted to numeric values of the following form:
  • 01 = January
  • 02 = February
  • 03 = March
etc.
Related Elements
Within citations (<element-citation> and <mixed-citation>), this element names a month, typically for the publication date of the cited source. The elements <year>, <date>, <day>, <month>, and <season> may all be used to describe a date in a citation, both publication dates and other dates. 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.).
Attributes
content-type
specific-use

Base Attributes

id
xml:base
xml:lang
Models and Context
May be contained in
<date>, <date-in-citation>, <element-citation>, <mixed-citation>, <nlm-citation>, <product>, <related-article>, <related-object>, <std>, <string-date>
Description
Text, numbers, or special characters
Content Model
<!ELEMENT  month        (#PCDATA)                                    >
Tagged Sample

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="2003-05-02">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 <month>, see Dates in Citations.