<pub-date>

Publication Date

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

Remarks

Of all the dates concerning an article, the publication date is the most important, for discovery, credit, Crossref and other authority registration, and other uses. Therefore the publication date is tagged using its own semantic <pub-date> element, rather than as a <date> element.
As part of the article metadata (<article-meta>), the element <pub-date> is allowed to repeat; each repetition can take a different @publication-format attribute to distinguish which form of publication (for example, print publication, electronic publication, ePub) and a @date-type attribute to distinguish between preprint, publication, re-release, 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
pub-type Type of Publication
xml:base Base
xml:lang Language

Content Model

<!ELEMENT  pub-date     %pub-date-model;                             >

Expanded Content Model

(((day?, month?) | season)?, year, era?)

Description

The following, in order:

This element may be contained in:

<article-meta>, <event>, <event-desc>, <front-stub>

Example 1

...
<article-meta>
<article-id pub-id-type="pmid">...</article-id>
<title-group>...</title-group>
<contrib-group>...</contrib-group>
<aff id="StLukes">...</aff>
<pub-date publication-format="print" date-type="pub" iso-8601-date="1999-03-27">
<day>27</day><month>03</month><year>1999</year>
</pub-date>
<volume>318</volume>
<issue>7187</issue>
<fpage>837</fpage>
<lpage>841</lpage>
<history>
<date date-type="accepted" iso-8601-date="1999-01-29">
<day>29</day>
<month>01</month>
<year>1999</year></date>
</history>
<permissions>
<copyright-statement>Copyright &#x00A9; 1999, British
Medical Journal</copyright-statement>
<copyright-year>1999</copyright-year>
<copyright-holder>British Medical Journal</copyright-holder>
</permissions>
<abstract>
<p>To examine the effectiveness of day hospital attendance 
in prolonging independent living for elderly people.</p>
</abstract>
</article-meta>
...

Example 2

Separate print and online publication dates:
...
<article-meta>
...
<pub-date publication-format="electronic" date-type="pub" iso-8601-date="2015-10-30">
<day>30</day>
<month>10</month>
<year>2015</year>
</pub-date>

<pub-date publication-format="print" date-type="pub" iso-8601-date="2016-01-01">
<day>01</day>
<month>01</month>
<year>2016</year>
</pub-date>
<volume>27</volume>
<issue>1</issue>
<fpage>25</fpage>
<lpage>39</lpage>
...</article-meta>
...

Journal Publishing Tag Library NISO JATS Version 1.3d1 (ANSI/NISO Z39.96-2019)

Version of October 2019

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