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<month> Month
Names one of the months of the year, such as
“July”
or “07”.
Usage/Remarks
Used within both article metadata and citations, this element may contain the textual
name of a month (“December”), a month-name abbreviation (“Dec”), or a numeric month
(“12”). Numeric months are best practice for archives who wish to regularize their
data.
Best Practice
For ease in comparisons and searching, many archives prefer that months be converted
to numeric value of the following form:
- 01 = January
- 02 = February
- 03 = March
Attributes
Multi-lang Attributes
Models and Context
May be contained in
Description
Text, numbers, or special characters
Content Model
<!ELEMENT month (#PCDATA) >
Tagged Samples
<date> in <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>
<history>
<date date-type="approved" iso-8601-date="2012-06-01">
<day>01</day>
<month>06</month>
<year>2012</year>
</date>
</history>
...
</article-meta>
...
<pub-date>
... <article-meta> <article-id pub-id-type="pmid">...</article-id> <title-group>...</title-group> <contrib-group>...</contrib-group> <aff id="StLukes">...</aff> <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> <volume>318</volume> <issue>7187</issue> <fpage>837</fpage> <lpage>841</lpage> <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> <permissions> <copyright-statement>Copyright © 1999, British Medical Journal</copyright-statement> <copyright-year>1999</copyright-year> <copyright-holder>British Medical Journal</copyright-holder> </permissions> <abstract> <p>To examine the effectiveness of day hospital attendance in prolonging independent living for elderly people.</p> </abstract> </article-meta> ...
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.