Names one of the months of the year.
Used in both article metadata and a citation, this element may contain a full month “December”, an abbreviation “Dec”, or, preferably, a numeric month “12”.
Authoring and Conversion Note: For ease in comparisons and searching, many archives prefer that months be converted to numeric values:
Text, numbers, or special characters
... <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 © 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>...
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