<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

Of all the dates concerning an article, the publication date is the most important, for discovery, credit, Crossref and other authority registration, and other uses. Therefore the publication date is tagged using its own semantic <pub-date> element, rather than as a <date> element.
As part of the article metadata (<article-meta>), the element <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, ePub) and a @date-type attribute to distinguish between preprint, publication, re-release, 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>, <event>, <event-desc>, <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 1.2 (ANSI/NISO Z39.96-2019)

Version of May 2019

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