<month>

Month

Definition

Names one of the months of the year.

Remarks

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:

etc.

Model Description

Text, numbers, or special characters.

Tagged Examples

Example 1

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 &#x00A9; 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>...


Example 2

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>

Module

common.ent