NCBI Book DTD and NCBI Collection DTD Tag Library version 2.3

<month>

Month

Definition

Names one of the months of the year

Remarks

Used within both book and book component metadata and citations, this element may contain the textual name of a month (“December”), a month-name abbreviation (“Dec”), or a numeric month (“12”). Numeric months are best practice for archives who wish to regularize their data.

Conversion Note: For ease in comparisons and searching, many archives prefer that months be converted to numeric values:

etc.

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; <date> Date; <nlm-citation> NLM Citation Model; <pub-date> Publication Date; <related-article> Related Article Information; <related-object> Related Object Information; <string-date> Date as a String

Tagged Example


...
<book-part-meta>
<title-group>
<title>GenBank: The Nucleotide Sequence Database</title>
</title-group>
<contrib-group>...</contrib-group>
<history>
<date date-type="created">
<day>09</day><month>10</month><year>2002</year>
</date>
<date date-type="updated">
<day>27</day><month>07</month><year>2004</year>
</date>
</history>
<alternate-form xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink" 
alternate-form-type="pdf" xlink:href="ch1d1"/>
<abstract>
<p>The GenBank sequence database is an annotated collection of all publicly 
available nucleotide sequences and their protein translations. This database 
is produced ...</p>
</abstract>
</book-part-meta>
...

Module

common.ent

NCBI Book DTD and NCBI Collection DTD Tag Library version 2.3

Version of March 2007