<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

calendar Calendar
date-type Type of Date
iso-8601-date ISO-8601 Formatted Date
publication-format Format of Publication
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?, string-date?)

Description

The following, in order:

This element may be contained in:

<element-citation>, <event>, <event-desc>, <mixed-citation>, <product>, <pub-history>, <related-article>, <related-object>

Example

          
...
<book-meta>
...
<pub-date  date-type="publication" 
  publication-format="electronic" 
  iso-8601-date="1998-09-17">
<day>17</day><month>09</month>
<year>1998</year>
</pub-date>
<pub-date date-type="publication" 
  publication-format="print" 
  iso-8601-date="1998-11-09">
<year>1998</year>
</pub-date>
<pub-history>
<date date-type="received" 
  publication-format="manuscript" 
  iso-8601-date="1998-01-05">
<day>05</day>
<month>01</month>
<year>1998</year></date>
<date date-type="rev-request" 
  iso-8601-date="1998-03-14">
<day>14</day>
<month>03</month>
<year>1998</year></date>
<date date-type="rev-received" 
  iso-8601-date="1998-05-24">
<day>24</day>
<month>05</month>
<year>1998</year></date>
<date date-type="accepted" 
  iso-8601-date="1998-06-06">
<day>06</day>
<month>06</month>
<year>1998</year></date>
</pub-history>
...
</book-meta>
...


        

Module

JATS-common1.ent