Journal Archiving and Interchange DTD Tag Library 1.0

<date>

Date

Definition

One of the historical dates that may be preserved for an article, such as when it was received or when it was accepted. This element acts (as does the related element <pub-date>) as a wrapper element for date elements such as <day>, <month>, and <year>, which are typically given numeric values, as well as for <string-date> and <season>, which are just text strings.

Remarks

Authoring and Conversion Note: Use <string-date> for the narrative form of a date if necessary, but tag the numeric values whenever possible.

Attribute

date-type Type of Date

Related Elements

The tag set includes several date elements. For the date of publication of the article (metadata), use the element Publication Date <pub-date>. For the copyright date of an article (metadata), use <copyright-year>. The <date> element is be used for historical dates concerning the article, such as the date received or the date accepted (also metadata). For the publication date of a cited work in a bibliographic reference <citation>, use the individual elements <day> and <year>. If neither the year nor day is given within a <citation> and the only date is a season or a textual form of the date such as “Third Quarter”, use the <season> element inside the <citation> element.

Model Description

Any one of:

Tagged Example


...
<article-meta>
<article-id pub-id-type="pmid">...</article-id>
<title-group>...
</title-group>
<contrib-group>...
</contrib-group>
<aff id="StLukes">...</aff>
<pub-date pub-type="pub">
<day>27</day><month>3</month>
<year>1999</year>
</pub-date>
<volume>318</volume>
<issue>7187</issue>
<fpage>837</fpage>
<lpage>841</lpage>
<history>
<date date-type="accepted">
<day>29</day>
<month>1</month>
<year>1999</year></date>
</history>
<copyright-statement>Copyright &#x00A9; 1999, British
Medical Journal</copyright-statement>
<copyright-year>1999</copyright-year>
<abstract>
<p>To examine the effectiveness of
day hospital attendance in prolonging independent living for elderly
people.</p>
</abstract>
</article-meta>...

Module

common.ent

Journal Archiving and Interchange DTD Tag Library 1.0

March 31, 2003