<month>

Month

Definition

Within bibliographic references (<citation> and <nlm-citation>), names one of the months of the year

Remarks

This element may contain the textual name of a month (“December”), a month-name abbreviation (“Dec”), or a numeric month (“12”). For ease in comparisons and searching, it is preferable that months be converted to numeric values:

etc.

For extensive examples of formatted <nlm-citation>s including use of <month>s in <nlm-citation>s, see: Sample PubMed Central Citations. To see tagged versions of these examples, see: Sample PubMed Central Citations - XML Tagged.

Attribute

content-type Type of Content

Model Information

Content Model

<!ELEMENT  month        (#PCDATA)                                    >

Description

Text, numbers, or special characters

This element may be contained in:

<citation> Citation; <nlm-citation> NLM Citation Model; <product> Product Information; <related-article> Related Article Information

Tagged Example

In a NLM-style bibliographic citation:


...
<ref>
<nlm-citation citation-type="journal">
<person-group>...</person-group>
<article-title>Electrogastrographic study of patients with unexplained 
nausea, bloating and vomiting</article-title>
<source>Gastroenterology</source>
<year>1980</year>
<month>08</month>
<volume>79</volume>
<issue>2</issue>
<fpage>311</fpage>
<lpage>314</lpage>
</nlm-citation>
</ref>
...

Module

common.ent