<pub-date>

Publication Date

Container element for the parts of a single date associated with a book’s publication (for example, the date a preprint chapter was released, the date a book was published in print or as an eBook).

Remarks

As part of the book metadata or book part metadata, the <pub-date> is allowed to repeat; each repetition can take @publication-format and @date-type attributes to distinguish which form of publication, for example, print publication, eBook publication, web distribution, etc.

Attributes

calendar Calendar
date-type Type of Date
id Document Internal Identifier
iso-8601-date ISO-8601 Formatted Date
publication-format Format 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

One or more of any of:

This element may be contained in:

<book-meta>, <book-part-meta>, <event>, <event-desc>

Example 

    ...
<book-meta>
<book-id book-id-type="publisher">handbook-648</book-id>
<book-title-group>
<book-title>The NCBI Handbook</book-title>
</book-title-group>
<contrib-group>
<contrib contrib-type="editor">
<name><surname>McEntyre</surname>
<given-names>Jo</given-names></name>
<xref ref-type="aff" rid="bid.m.1"/>
</contrib>
<contrib contrib-type="editor">
<name><surname>Ostell</surname>
<given-names>Jim</given-names></name>
<xref ref-type="aff" rid="bid.m.1"/>
</contrib>
</contrib-group>
<aff id="bid.m.1">
<institution>National Center for Biotechnology 
Information (NCBI), National Library of Medicine, 
National Institutes of Health</institution>,
<addr-line>Bethesda, MD 20892-6510</addr-line>
</aff>
<pub-date iso-8601-date="2002-11"><month>11</month>
<year>2002</year></pub-date>
<publisher>...</publisher>
...</book-meta>
...

Book Interchange Tag Suite (BITS) Version 2.0 Tag Library

Version of February 2016

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