date-type

Type of Date

Event in the lifecycle of an article that this date is marking (for example, the date the manuscript was received or accepted, the date the electronic preprint was published, or the date of any revision or retraction).

Usage

In this Tag Set, this attribute is likely to be used very rarely. It can only be used on a <date> element when that element is used in a citation. Since <date>s in citations are used to mark the primary publication date, the usual value is likely to be “date-type="pub-date"”.

With the Element

<date>
Value Meaning
Text, numbers, or special characters Typically a word or phrase that names or describes the purpose of a date, in this case, the publication date (pub-date) of a cited reference.
Restriction: @date-type is an optional attribute; there is no default.

Suggested usage

Although designed to accept any text as its value, the following are suggested date types:

accepted

The date a document, typically a manuscript, was accepted

corrected

The date an article was corrected

pub

The publication date (electronic or print)

preprint

Preprint dissemination date (electronic or print)

retracted

The date an article was retracted

received

The date a document, typically a manuscript, was received

rev-recd

The date a revised document was received

rev-request

The date revisions were requested

Example

 
...  
<ref id="B14">
<element-citation publication-type="book" publication-format="print">
...
<source>A new kind of doctor: the general practitioner&rsquo;s 
part in the health of the community</source>
<date iso-8601-date="1988" date-type="published">
<year>1988</year></date>
<publisher-loc>London</publisher-loc>
<publisher-name>Merlin Press</publisher-name>
</element-citation>
</ref>
...