<month>

Month

Names one of the months of the year, such as “July” or “07”.

Remarks

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:
  • 01 = January
  • 02 = February
  • 03 = March
etc.
Related Essay: For a discussion on the use of <month>, see Dates in Citations.

Related Elements

Within citations (<element-citation> and <mixed-citation>), this element is used to name the month 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.).

Attributes

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

Content Model

<!ELEMENT  month        (#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>, <std>, <string-date>

Example 1

In metadata as a lifecycle (<pub-history>) date:
 ...
<book-part-meta>...
<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" iso-8601-date="2012-06-01">
<day>01</day>
<month>06</month>
<year>2012</year>
</date>
</pub-history>
...</book-part-meta>
...

Example 2

In metadata, in both publication date and publication history dates:
    ...
<book-meta>...
<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>
...</book-meta>
...

Example 3

In an element-style bibliographic reference (punctuation and spacing removed):
    ...
<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>
...

Example 4

In a mixed-style bibliographic reference (punctuation and spacing preserved):
    ...
<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>
...

Book Interchange Tag Suite (BITS) Version 2.0 Tag Library

Version of February 2016

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