<pub-date>

Publication Date

Container element for the parts of a single date associated with an article’s publication (for example, date preprint was released, date article was published in print).

Remarks

As part of the article metadata, the <pub-date> is allowed to repeat; each repetition can take a different @publication-format attribute to distinguish which form of publication, for example, print publication, electronic publication, etc. and a @date-type attribute to distinguish between preprint, publication, revision received, etc.
While most publication dates will either be a season and a year (for example, Spring 1999) or a year with a possible day and month (for example, January 1, 1999), sometimes the publication date will identify both the season and date. A publication date of “Spring 1999; January 29, 1999” should be tagged: 
<pub-date publication-format="print" date-type="pub"
      iso-8601-date="1999-01-29">
    <season>Spring</season>
    <day>29</day>
    <month>01</month>
    <year>1999</year>
  </pub-date>

Attributes

calendar Calendar
date-type Type of Date
id Document Internal Identifier
iso-8601-date ISO-8601 Formatted Date
publication-format Format of Publication
pub-type Type of Publication
xml:base Base
xml:lang Language

Content Model

<!ELEMENT  pub-date     %pub-date-model;                             >

Expanded Content Model

(day | era | month | season | year | string-date | x)*

Description

Any combination of:

This element may be contained in:

<article-meta>, <front-stub>

Example 

    ...
<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>
<history>
<date date-type="accepted" iso-8601-date="2001-01-29">
<day>29</day>
<month>01</month>
<year>1999</year></date>
</history>
<permissions>
<copyright-statement>Copyright &#x00A9; 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>
...

Journal Archiving and Interchange Tag Library NISO JATS Version 1.1 (ANSI/NISO Z39.96-2015)

Version of December 2015

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