<conf-date>

Conference Date

The date(s) on which the conference was held

Remarks

For a detailed discussion on the use of <conf-date>, see Conferences in Citations.

Conversion Note: Conference dates in journal headers 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 should be stored in this element. The dates that come initially from separate first and last elements should be combined, for example, the separate dates:

<conf-start>August 4, 2002</conf-start>
<conf-end>August 9, 2002</conf-end>

should be merged into a single conference date to become:

<conf-date>August 4, 2002 - August 9, 2002</conf-date>

The element <conf-date> may be used in bibliographic references (<element-citation> and <mixed-citation>).

Attribute

content-type Type of Content

Related Elements

The container element Conference Information (<conference>) holds all the elements that may be used to describe a conference, where an article was originally presented at a conference. Those elements include: Conference Date, Conference Number, <conf-loc>, <conf-sponsor>, <string-conf>, <conf-theme>, and <conf-acronym>.

Content Model

<!ELEMENT  conf-date    (#PCDATA %conf-date-elements;)*              >

Expanded Content Model

(#PCDATA | day | month | season | year | x)*

Description

Any combination of:

This element may be contained in:

<conference>, <element-citation>, <mixed-citation>, <nlm-citation>, <product>, <related-article>, <related-object>, <string-conf>

Example 1

This example uses <conf-date> within an <element-citation> that does not include punctuation:

...
<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>2006 Sep 27-30</conf-date>
<conf-loc>Washington, DC</conf-loc>
</element-citation>
</ref>
...


Example 2

This example uses <conf-date> within an <element-citation> that does include punctuation:

...
<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>2006 Sep
27-30</conf-date>; <conf-loc>Washington, DC</conf-loc>.
</mixed-citation>
</ref>
...


Example 3

...
<article-meta>
...
<abstract>...</abstract>
<conference>
<conf-date>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>
</article-meta>
...

Module

common3.ent