Names one of the months of the year, such as “July” or “07”.
Used within both book and book part metadata as well as within citations, this element may contain the textual name of a month (“December”), a month-name abbreviation (“Dec”), or a numeric month (“12”). Numeric months are best practice for archives who wish to regularize their data.
Best Practice: For ease in comparisons and searching, many archives prefer that months be converted to numeric value of the following form:
Related Essay: For a discussion on the use of <month>, see Dates in Citations.
<!ELEMENT month (#PCDATA) >
Text, numbers, or special characters
<conf-date>, <date>, <date-in-citation>, <element-citation>, <mixed-citation>, <product>, <pub-date>, <related-article>, <related-object>, <std>, <string-date>
In metadata as a lifecycle (<pub-history>) date:
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<book-part-meta>
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<contrib-group>
<contrib contrib-type="author">
<collab collab-type="committee">Technical Committee ISO/TC 108,
Subcommittee SC 2</collab>
</contrib>
</contrib-group>
<fpage seq="1">1</fpage>
<lpage>23</lpage>
<pub-history>
<date date-type="approved">
<day>01</day>
<month>06</month>
<year>2012</year>
</date>
</pub-history>
...
</book-part-meta>
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In metadata, in both publication date and publication history dates:
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<book-meta>
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<pub-date date-type="publication"
publication-format="electronic"
iso-8601-date="1998-09-17">
<day>17</day><month>09</month><year>1998</year>
</pub-date>
<pub-date date-type="publication"
publication-format="print"
iso-8601-date="1998-11-09">
<year>1998</year>
</pub-date>
<pub-history>
<date date-type="received"
publication-format="manuscript"
iso-8601-date="1998-01-05">
<day>05</day><month>01</month><year>1998</year>
</date>
<date date-type="rev-request"
iso-8601-date="1998-03-14">
<day>14</day><month>03</month><year>1998</year>
</date>
<date date-type="rev-received"
iso-8601-date="1998-05-24">
<day>24</day><month>05</month><year>1998</year>
</date>
<date date-type="accepted"
iso-8601-date="1998-06-06">
<day>06</day><month>06</month><year>1998</year>
</date>
</pub-history>
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</book-meta>
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In an element-style bibliographic reference (punctuation and spacing removed):
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<ref>
<element-citation publication-type="book" publication-format="web">
<source>Fact sheet: AIDS information resources</source>
<comment>[Internet]</comment>
<publisher-loc>Bethesda (MD)</publisher-loc>
<publisher-name>National Library of Medicine
(US)</publisher-name>
<year iso-8601-date="2003-05-02">2003</year>
<month>May</month>
<day>2</day>
<date-in-citation content-type="updated"
iso-8601-date="2005-07-14">updated 2005 Jul 14</date-in-citation>
<date-in-citation content-type="access-date"
iso-8601-date="2006-11-15">cited 2006 Nov 15</date-in-citation>
<size units="screens">[about 3 screens]</size>
<comment>Available from:
<uri>http://www.nlm.nih.gov/pubs/factsheets/aidsinfs.html</uri>
</comment>
</element-citation>
</ref>
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In a mixed-style bibliographic reference (punctuation and spacing preserved):
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<ref>
<mixed-citation publication-type="book" publication-format="web">
<source>Fact sheet: AIDS information resources</source>
[Internet]. <publisher-loc>Bethesda
(MD)</publisher-loc>: <publisher-name>National
Library of Medicine (US)</publisher-name>;
<year iso-8601-date="2003-05-02">2003</year> <month>May</month>
<day>2</day> [updated <date-in-citation content-type="updated"
iso-8601-date="2005-07-14">2005 Jul 14</date-in-citation>; cited
<date-in-citation content-type="access-date"
iso-8601-date="2006-11-15">2006 Nov 15</date-in-citation>].
<size units="screens">[about 3 screens]</size>.
Available from:
<uri>http://www.nlm.nih.gov/pubs/factsheets/aidsinfs.html</uri>.
</mixed-citation>
</ref>
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