Date(s) on which a conference was held.
Related Essay: The element <conf-date> may be used in bibliographic references (<element-citation> and <mixed-citation>). For a discussion on the use of <conf-date>, see Conferences in Citations.
Best Practice: Conference dates in journal metadata are traditionally stored in one of two forms: as a single date (“May 1906”), or as the first day and last day of the conference. Either form can be stored in the <conf-date> element :
<conf-date>December 2011</conf-date>
or
<conf-date>August 4, 2010 - August 9, 2010</conf-date>
Dates that originate as separate first and last elements in the source should be combined. For example, the separate dates:
<conf-start>August 4, 2010</conf-start> <conf-end>August 9, 2010</conf-end>
should be merged into a single conference date to become:
<conf-date>August 4, 2010 - August 9, 2010</conf-date>
<!ELEMENT conf-date (#PCDATA %conf-date-elements;)* >
(#PCDATA)*
Text, numbers, or special characters, zero or more
<conference>, <element-citation>, <mixed-citation>, <nlm-citation>, <product>, <related-article>, <related-object>
In an element-style bibliographic reference (punctuation and spacing removed):
...
<ref>
<element-citation publication-type="paper">
<name><surname>Thabet</surname>
<given-names>A</given-names></name>
<article-title>Clinical value of two serial pulmonary
embolism-protocol CT studies performed within ten
days</article-title>
<conf-name>Annual Scientific Meeting and Postgraduate
Course of the American Society of Emergency
Radiology</conf-name>
<conf-date iso-8601-date="2006-09-27">2006 Sep 27-30</conf-date>
<conf-loc>Washington, DC</conf-loc>
</element-citation>
</ref>
...
In a mixed-style bibliographic reference (punctuation and spacing preserved):
...
<ref>
<mixed-citation publication-type="paper">
<string-name><surname>Thabet</surname>,
<given-names>A</given-names></string-name>.
<article-title>Clinical value of two serial pulmonary
embolism-protocol CT studies performed within ten
days</article-title>. <conf-name>Annual Scientific
Meeting and Postgraduate Course of the American
Society of Emergency Radiology</conf-name>;
<conf-date iso-8601-date="2006-09-27">2006 Sep
27-30</conf-date>; <conf-loc>Washington, DC</conf-loc>.
</mixed-citation>
</ref>
...
...
<article-meta>
...
<abstract>...</abstract>
<conference>
<conf-date iso-8601-date="1999">1999</conf-date>
<conf-name>The 27th annual ACM SI/GUCCS
conference</conf-name>
<conf-acronym>SIGUCCS</conf-acronym>
<conf-num>27</conf-num>
<conf-loc>Denver, Colorado, United States</conf-loc>
<conf-sponsor>ACM, Assoc. for Computing
Machinery</conf-sponsor>
<conf-theme>User services conference for
university and college computing service
organizations</conf-theme>
</conference>
<counts>
<count count-type="contributors" count="3"/>
<fig-count count="5"/>
<table-count count="3"/>
<equation-count count="10"/>
<ref-count count="26"/>
<page-count count="6"/>
<word-count count="2847"/>
</counts>
</article-meta>
...
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