<day>

Day

The numeric value of a day of the month, in two-digit form as it would be stated as the “DD” in the international date format YYYY-MM-DD, for example, “03”, “25”

Remarks

For a detailed discussion on the use of <day>, see Dates in Citations.

Used in both article metadata and within bibliographic references (<element-citation> and <mixed-citation>).

Attribute

content-type Type of Content

Related Elements

Within citations (<element-citation> and <mixed-citation>), this element is used to name the date of publication. The elements <year>, <date>, <day>, <month>, and <season> may all be used to describe the date a cited resource was published. Other dates inside a citation, such as a copyright date, the date on which the author accessed the resource, or a withdrawal date, should be tagged using <date-in-citation> with the @content-type attribute used to name the type of date (copyright, access-date, time-stamp, etc.).

Content Model

<!ELEMENT  day          (#PCDATA)                                    >

Description

Text, numbers, or special characters

This element may be contained in:

<access-date>, <conf-date>, <date>, <date-in-citation>, <element-citation>, <mixed-citation>, <nlm-citation>, <product>, <pub-date>, <related-article>, <related-object>, <string-date>

Example 1

In an element-style bibliographic reference (punctuation and spacing removed):

...
<ref>
<element-citation publication-type="book" publication-format="web">
<source>Fact sheet: AIDS information resources</source>
<comment>[Internet]</comment>
<publisher-loc>Bethesda (MD)</publisher-loc>
<publisher-name>National Library of Medicine
(US)</publisher-name>
<year>2003</year>
<month>May</month>
<day>2</day>
<date-in-citation content-type="updated">updated 2005 Jul 14</date-in-citation>
<date-in-citation content-type="access-date">cited 2006 Nov 15</date-in-citation>
<size units="screen">[about 3 screens]</size>
<comment>Available from:
<uri>http://www.nlm.nih.gov/pubs/factsheets/aidsinfs.html</uri>
</comment>
</element-citation>
</ref>
...


Example 2

In a mixed-style bibliographic reference (punctuation and spacing preserved):

...
<ref>
<mixed-citation publication-type="book" publication-format="web">
<source>Fact sheet: AIDS information resources</source>
[Internet]. <publisher-loc>Bethesda
(MD)</publisher-loc>: <publisher-name>National
Library of Medicine (US)</publisher-name>;
<year>2003</year> <month>May</month> <day>2</day>
[updated <date-in-citation content-type="updated">2005 Jul 14</date-in-citation>;
 cited <date-in-citation content-type="access-date">2006 Nov 15</date-in-citation>].
<size units="screen">[about 3 screens]</size>. Available from:
<uri>http://www.nlm.nih.gov/pubs/factsheets/aidsinfs.html</uri>.
</mixed-citation>
</ref>
...


Example 3

...
<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>03</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>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>
...

Module

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