<day>

Day

Definition

The numeric value of a day of the month, in two-digit form as it would be stated as the “DD” in the international date format YYYY-MM-DD, for example, “03”, “25”

Remarks

Used in both article metadata and within bibliographic references <citation> and <nlm-citation>. For extensive examples of formatted <nlm-citation>s including use of <day>s in <nlm-citation>s, see: Sample PubMed Central Citations. To see tagged versions of these examples, see: Sample PubMed Central Citations - XML Tagged.

Model Information

Content Model

<!ELEMENT  day          (#PCDATA)                                    >

Description

Text, numbers, or special characters

This element may be contained in:

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

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>03</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>01</month>
<year>1999</year></date>
</history>
<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>
... 


Example 2

In a NLM-style bibliographic citation:


...
<ref>
<nlm-citation citation-type="journal">
<collab>The Royal Marsden Hospital Bone-Marrow Transplantation Team</collab>
<article-title>Failure of syngeneic bone-marrow graft without 
preconditioning in post-hepatitis marrow aplasia</article-title>
<source>Lancet</source>
<year>1977</year>
<month>10</month>
<day>08</day>
<volume>2</volume>
<issue>8041</issue>
<fpage>742</fpage>
<lpage>744</lpage>
</nlm-citation>
</ref>
...


Module

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