Season of publication (for example, Spring, Third Quarter).
Related Essay: For a discussion on the use of <season>, see Dates in Citations.
Usage: This element is used in both article metadata and inside a bibliographic reference (<element-citation> or <mixed-citation>).
<!ELEMENT season (#PCDATA) >
Text, numbers, or special characters
<access-date>, <conf-date>, <date>, <date-in-citation>, <element-citation>, <mixed-citation>, <nlm-citation>, <product>, <pub-date>, <related-article>, <related-object>, <string-date>
In article metadata:
... <article-meta> ... <title-group> <article-title>Raptor Science</article-title> <subtitle>Capturing Cosmological “Winks”</subtitle> </title-group> <contrib-group> <contrib> <name><surname>Fishbone</surname> <given-names>Brian</given-names></name> </contrib> </contrib-group> <pub-date publication-format="print" date-type="pub" iso-8601-date="2003"> <season>Spring</season> <year iso-8601-date="2003">2003</year> </pub-date> <pub-date publication-format="electronic" date-type="pub" iso-8601-date="2003"> <season>Spring</season> <year iso-8601-date="2003">2003</year> </pub-date> <volume>...</volume> ... </article-meta> ...
In an element-style bibliographic citation (punctuation and spacing removed):
...
<ref>
<element-citation>
<person-group person-group-type="author">
<name><surname>Shneiderman</surname>
<given-names>B.</given-names></name>
</person-group>
<article-title>Designing information-abundant web
sites: issues and recommendations</article-title>
<source>Web Developers' Journal</source>
<volume>47</volume>
<issue>1</issue>
<issue-title>World Wide Web Usability</issue-title>
<fpage>100</fpage>
<lpage>120</lpage>
<page-range>100-101, 105, 107-120</page-range>
<season>Summer</season>
<year iso-8601-date="1997">1997</year>
</element-citation>
</ref>
...
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