Names one of the months of the year.
Used in both article metadata and bibliographic references (<citation> and <nlm-citation>), this element may contain a full month “December”, an abbreviation “Dec”, or, preferably, a numeric month “12”. 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.
Authoring and Conversion Note: For ease in comparisons and searching, many archives prefer that months be converted to numeric values:
Text, numbers, or special characters.
In article metadata
... <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>3</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>1</month> <year>1999</year></date> </history> <copyright-statement>Copyright © 1999, British Medical Journal</copyright-statement> <copyright-year>1999</copyright-year> <abstract> <p>To examine the effectiveness of day hospital attendance in prolonging independent living for elderly people.</p> </abstract> </article-meta>...
In a NLM-style bibliographic citation
<nlm-citation citation-type="journal">
<person-group>
<name>
<surname>You</surname>
<given-names>CH</given-names>
</name>
<name>
<surname>Lee</surname>
<given-names>KY</given-names>
</name>
<name>
<surname>Chey</surname>
<given-names>RY</given-names>
</name>
<name>
<surname>Menguy</surname>
<given-names>R</given-names>
</name>
</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>
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