Book Interchange Tag Suite (BITS) Version 1.0 Tag Library Version 1.0

<season>

Season

Season of publication (for example, Spring, Third Quarter).

Remarks

Related Essay: For a discussion on the use of <season>, see Dates in Citations.

Usage: This element is used inside book, book part, and collection metadata elements as well as inside bibliographic references (<element-citation> or <mixed-citation>) and other referencing elements such as <related-object>.

Attributes

content-type Type of Content
id Document Internal Identifier
specific-use Specific Use
xml:base Base
xml:lang Language

Related Elements

In Citations: Within citations (<element-citation> and <mixed-citation>), this element is used to name the date of publication. The elements <year>, <date>, <day>, <month>, and <season> may all be used to describe the date a cited resource was published. Other dates inside a citation, such as a copyright date, the date on which the author accessed the resource, or a withdrawal date, should be tagged using <date-in-citation> with the @content-type attribute used to name the type of date (copyright, access-date, time-stamp, etc.).

Content Model

<!ELEMENT  season       (#PCDATA)                                    >

Description

Text, numbers, or special characters

This element may be contained in:

<conf-date>, <date>, <date-in-citation>, <element-citation>, <mixed-citation>, <product>, <pub-date>, <related-article>, <related-object>, <string-date>

Example 1

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>
...

Example 2

In a mixed-style bibliographic citation (punctuation and spacing preserved): 

    
...
<ref>
<mixed-citation>
<person-group person-group-type="author">
<string-name><surname>Shneiderman</surname>
<given-names>B.</given-names></string-name>
</person-group>.
<article-title>Designing information-abundant web
sites: issues and recommendations</article-title>.
<source>Web Developers' Journal</source>
<year iso-8601-date="1997">1997</year> <season>Summer</season>;
<volume>47</volume>(<issue>1</issue>)
<issue-title>World Wide Web Usability</issue-title>:
<page-range>100&ndash;101, 105, 107&ndash;120</page-range>.
<fpage>100</fpage>
<lpage>120</lpage>
</mixed-citation>
</ref>
...

Book Interchange Tag Suite (BITS) Version 1.0 Tag Library Version 1.0

Version of December 2013