Related Elements

There are three copyright elements which may be contained in the <permissions> grouping:

• <copyright-statement> , which is the textual statement of the copyright intended for print and display (The full statement usually contains the copyright holder’s name and the year among other information.);
• <copyright-year>, a metadata element that names just the copyright year; (This is intended for metadata searching and aggregation and is typically not displayed.); and
• <copyright-holder>, also a metadata element that is typically not displayed.

This Tag Set includes several date elements. For the copyright date of a book (metadata) use the copyright year element <copyright-year>. For the publication date of a cited work in a bibliographic reference <mixed-citation>, use the individual elements <month>, <day>, and <year> (see Dates in Citations). If no month or month/day construction is given within a <mixed-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 <mixed-citation> element.

<!ELEMENT  copyright-year    
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<article>
<front>
<article-meta>
 <title-group>...</title-group>
<contrib-group>
 <contrib contrib-type="author">...

</contrib-group>
<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>
...